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Meaning: [positive in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/positive/). - Essaye de rester **positive**. Try to stay **positive**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CK · checked, community translation · [\#8597947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8597947) [\#11955788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11955788)) - Ce n'est pas que Combeferre ne fût capable de combattre, il ne refusait pas de prendre corps à corps l'obstacle et de l'attaquer de vive force et par explosion; mais mettre peu à peu, par l'enseignement des axiomes et la promulgation des lois **positives**, le genre humain d'accord avec ses destinées, cela lui plaisait mieux; et, entre deux clartés, sa pente était plutôt pour l'illumination que pour l'embrasement. It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of **positive** laws; and, between two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for conflagration. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14017) - Je terminerai par une note **positive**. Lastly I leave you with this **positive** thought. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1107259) - recherche **positive** d'antigène dans le sang. **positive** antigen test on blood ([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 4520696) - Sa balance commerciale demeurait **positive**. The Territory ' s trade balance continued to be **positive**. ([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 7757869) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Même si beaucoup apportent un soutien de façade à l'idée de discrimination **positive**, en réalité, très peu de personnes issues des minorités sont embauchées. Although many pay lip service to the idea of affirmative action, in reality, very few minorities get hired. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#267920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/267920) [\#332048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/332048)) - Apprends à penser de manière **positive** ! Learn to think positively! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7936847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7936847) [\#2427528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2427528)) - J'ai besoin d'ondes **positives**. I need good vibes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and bitchoftheseus · checked, community translation · [\#10612396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10612396) [\#10610305](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10610305)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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