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Meaning: [voluntary in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/voluntary/). - Cette entreprise cherche à réduire le nombre de ses employés en mettant à disposition beaucoup d'argent pour les départs **volontaires**. That company aims to reduce employee numbers by arranging a lot of retirement money for **voluntary** redundancies. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and blay\_paul · checked, community translation · [\#502806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/502806) [\#548640](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/548640)) - Il n'avait connu ni l'un ni l'autre, et il avait eu une sorte de nuit **volontaire** sur les yeux. He had not known either the one or the other, and a sort of **voluntary** night had obscured his eyes. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13585) - Le quatrième point concerne les accords **volontaires**. The fourth point concerns **voluntary** agreements. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 553487) - Changements **volontaires** de méthodes comptables \[axis\] **Voluntary** changes in accounting policy \[axis\] ([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 5315335) - b Nouvelle contribution **volontaire**. b/ New **voluntary** contribution. ([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 689477) ## volunteer Used about 14 467 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · parliamentary ≈ 117 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 327 · UN documents ≈ 12 982). Forms: volunteer, volunteers. Meaning: [volunteer in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/volunteer/). - Je suis **volontaire**. I am a **volunteer**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CC · checked, community translation · [\#3141154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3141154) [\#3141204](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3141204)) - Nous notons qu'enfin, une base légale est donnée aux **volontaires**. We would point out that a legal basis has at last been provided for **volunteers**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 461056) - Conditions particulières applicables aux **volontaires** Specific conditions for **volunteers** ([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 3900254) - Stagiaires, auteurs et orateurs **volontaires**, FOPE As funded **Volunteer** authors and speakers, FOPE ([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 12723309) - J'ai besoin d'un **volontaire**. I need a **volunteer**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bout and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2173671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2173671) [\#2567698](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2567698)) ## nations Used about 999 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 999). - **Volontaires** des Nations Unies United **Nations** Volun-teers ([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 8833109) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - C'était un vieil homme bienveillant qui se portait **volontaire** pour tondre la pelouse de ses voisins gratuitement. He was a benevolent old man who volunteered to mow his neighbors' lawns for free. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ANH\_DAO and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#1998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1998) [\#3806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3806)) - Je suis content que tu te sois porté **volontaire** pour aider. I'm glad you volunteered to help. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4491054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4491054) [\#11026164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11026164)) - Te portes-tu **volontaire** pour aider ? Are you volunteering to help? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3114033](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3114033) [\#5441264](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5441264)) ## 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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