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# volonté — French to English

How French *volonté* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: volonté (84 191), volontés (642). By style: everyday 108 · literary 16 · biblical 96 · parliamentary 11 085 · legal and administrative 1 254 · UN documents 72 274.

## political

Used about 23 643 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 540 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 · UN documents ≈ 21 080). Meaning: [political in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/political/).

- Je crois, Monsieur le Commissaire, en votre **volonté** politique.
  I have faith, Commissioner, in your **political** will.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 726572)

- Ces propositions peuvent porter notamment sur un travail préparatoire des experts et doivent tenir compte de la **volonté** politique d'associer toutes les parties intéressées au processus.
  Such proposals might include preparatory work at expert level, and should take account of the **political** interest in involving all stakeholders in the process.
  ([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 776553)

- Une telle procédure requiert du savoir-faire, des ressources et une **volonté** politique.
  It requires expertise, resources and **political** will.
  ([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 22130978)

- Il doit être au cur des **volontés** politiques de nos partenaires.
  It must form the basis for our partners' **political** will.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 16867)

- A présent, nous devons avant tout faire preuve de davantage de **volonté** politique.
  Above all, for now we need an injection of **political** will.
  ([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 20496787)

## commitment

Used about 12 417 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 115 · legal and administrative ≈ 255 · UN documents ≈ 12 046). Meaning: [commitment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/commitment/).

- L'honorable député peut être assuré que nous continuerons à tendre vers cet objectif avec la plus ferme des **volontés**.
  The honourable Member can rest assured that we shall continue to work towards this objective with great **commitment**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 916920)

- Démontrer la **volonté** d’amélioration permanente et la pratique de cette amélioration.
  Demonstrate **commitment** to and practice of continuous improvement
  ([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 2842359)

- a) En gardant les **volontés** mobilisées et en assurant la coordination
  (a) Maintaining **commitment** and ensuring national coordination:
  ([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 16018890)

- Projet no 5: démonstration de la **volonté** de l’Union et de ses États membres et assurer leur visibilité
  Project 5: Demonstrating the **commitment** of the Union and its Member States and ensuring their visibility
  ([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 5342103)

- b) Appuyer les activités de sensibilisation en vue de mobiliser les connaissances, les **volontés** et les énergies;
  (b) Support to advocacy to mobilize understanding, **commitment** and action;
  ([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 8178322)

## good

Used about 4 500 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 693 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 · UN documents ≈ 3 764). Meaning: [good in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/good/).

- La **volonté** est aussi bonne que l'action.
  The will is as **good** as the deed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and boink · checked, community translation · [\#24605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/24605) [\#1575067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1575067))

- Lorsqu'on parle des couvents, ces lieux d'erreur, mais d'innocence, d'égarement, mais de bonne **volonté**, d'ignorance, mais de dévouement, de supplice, mais de martyre, il faut presque toujours dire oui et non.
  When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, of aberration but of **good**-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11110)

- N’est-ce pas de la **volonté** du Très-Haut que viennent Les maux et les biens?
  Doesn’t evil and **good** come out of the mouth of the Most High?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:38)

- Bien entendu, des vux sont exprimés, comme aujourd' hui, de bonnes **volontés** se manifestent.
  Of course, we may get an expression of wishes, as today, and of **good** intentions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 99824)

- Elle a respecté ce souhait, mais a invité les producteurs à confirmer leur **volonté** de rester anonymes au cours des enquêtes de réexamen et à motiver leur demande.
  The Commission respected those requests, but invited them to confirm their wish to remain anonymous throughout the reviews investigations and to provide **good** cause for their request.
  ([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 4270774)

## willingness

Used about 3 916 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 577 · legal and administrative ≈ 325 · UN documents ≈ 3 011). Meaning: [willingness in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/willingness/).

- Ils ont exprimé leur **volonté** d'aider.
  They expressed their **willingness** to help.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and nava · checked, community translation · [\#3573883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3573883) [\#10601552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10601552))

- Europe 2020 est synonyme de **volonté** de créer une union politique.
  Europe 2020 means the **willingness** to bring about a political union.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1393168)

- manifeste sa **volonté** de participer au programme, et
  declares its **willingness** to be a member of the programme, and
  ([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 1724240)

- Cela motive les fonctionnaires et encourage leur **volonté** de changement;
  Supporting staff motivation and **willingness** to change;
  ([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 21162878)

- De plus, on constate du côté russe un manque total de **volonté** d'engager le dialogue avec les ONG.
  Moreover, there is a complete lack of **willingness** on the Russian side to engage with the NGOs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1007344)

## More sentences

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

- Je n'ai aucune force de **volonté** lorsqu'il s'agit de faire de l'exercice.
  I have no will power when it comes to exercising.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4374646](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4374646) [\#4374874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4374874))

- Il a exprimé sa **volonté** d'arrêter la cigarette.
  He vowed to give up smoking.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · [\#295417](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/295417) [\#805187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805187))

- Feu à **volonté**, mon ami. Feu à **volonté**.
  Weapons free my friend. Weapons free.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13867684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13867684) [\#13867685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13867685))

## 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/).

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