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# physique — French to English

How French *physique* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: physique (66 525), physiques (42 338). By style: everyday 119 · literary 4 · parliamentary 1 890 · legal and administrative 20 877 · UN documents 85 973.

## physical

Used about 83 894 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 106 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 536 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 396 · UN documents ≈ 69 853). Forms: physical, physics. Meaning: [physical in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/physical/).

- Il fait de la **physique**.
  He is doing **physics**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#303489](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/303489) [\#8098839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8098839))

- Un détail que nous ne devons pas omettre, c'est qu'il était d'une force **physique** dont n'approchait pas un des habitants du bagne.
  One detail, which we must not omit, is that he possessed a **physical** strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the galleys.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2040)

- Avec des moyens **physiques** si besoin est.
  **Physical** force is used as a big stick.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 328240)

- Occupation **physique** la plus récente
  Most Recent **Physical** Occupancy
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3569725)

- Département de **physique**, Université Ben-Gurion
  Department of **Physics**, Ben-Gurion University
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23786392)

## natural

Used about 14 163 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 39 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 959 · UN documents ≈ 7 164). Meaning: [natural in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/natural/).

- On recourt alors à une procédure civile et/ou administrative, et il faut ensuite invoquer la responsabilité pénale des personnes **physiques** impliquées.
  This means that a civil or administrative case must be brought or otherwise the criminal liability of the **natural** person must be invoked.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1644539)

- des personnes **physiques** associées à celles visées aux points a) et b),
  **natural** persons associated with those referred to in points (a) and (b);
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3526119)

- 1. Nationalité des personnes **physiques** et succession d &apos; États \[P.140\].
  1. Nationality of **natural** persons in relation to the succession of States \[D.140\].
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11624740)

- Une réduction des sanctions financières pour les employeurs de ressortissants tiers devrait également être envisagée lorsque l'employeur est une personne **physique**.
  Reducing the financial penalties for employers of third country nationals should also be considered in cases where the employer is a **natural** person.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1205765)

- des infractions antérieures commises par la personne **physique** ou morale responsable.
  previous infringements by the responsible **natural** or legal person.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4993487)

## persons

Used about 2 746 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 59 · UN documents ≈ 2 687). Forms: person, persons.

- Ce programme vise les personnes **physiques** et morales.
  The programme is aimed at natural and legal **persons**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1486390)

- Sa Constitution est la loi suprême et toutes les personnes morales et **physiques** exerçant un pouvoir exécutif y sont soumises.
  The Constitution was the supreme law, and all **persons** and entities that exercised governmental authority were subject to it.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 18374284)

- Cela veut dire qu'il faut une réglementation pour la sanction des personnes **physiques** qui, au nom de personnes juridiques, abusent du budget communautaire.
  That means we must have rules on penalizing natural **persons** who act in contravention of the Community budget in the name of legal persons.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1644502)

- Note du Secrétariat transmettant les commentaires reçus de gouvernements sur la nationalité des personnes **physiques** et la succession d &apos; États
  Note by the Secretariat transmitting the comments received from Governments on the nationality of **persons** in relation to the succession of States
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23468816)

- Premièrement, le droit de s'adresser à lui est un des droits dont dispose toute personne **physique** ou morale qui réside légalement dans l'Union européenne.
  Firstly, the right to consult the Ombudsman is one of the European civil rights which applies to all natural and legal **persons** who reside legally in the European Union.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1875932)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Les peintres et sculpteurs sous les Nazis représentaient souvent le nu, mais il leur était interdit de montrer un quelconque défaut **physique**.
  Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bojnin and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#679924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/679924) [\#929567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/929567))

- La puissance de son **physique** saute aux yeux de tous ceux qui le regardent.
  The power of his physique is evident to all who look at him.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_Benedict\_1921 · checked, community translation · [\#847192](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/847192) [\#1035570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1035570))

- Cette chanteuse est devenue populaire grâce à son apparence **physique**.
  This singer was made popular by his good looks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1670982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1670982) [\#1671490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1671490))

## Grammar

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