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# volontaires — French to English

How French *volontaires* 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: volontaires (72 445). By style: everyday 32 · biblical 15 · parliamentary 864 · legal and administrative 1 551 · UN documents 69 983.

## voluntary

Used about 55 208 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 648 · legal and administrative ≈ 614 · UN documents ≈ 53 945). 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))

- 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)

- Fonds général de contributions **volontaires**
  General **voluntary** trust fund
  ([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 17145873)

- La question des accords **volontaires** rentre dans ce cadre.
  The issue of **voluntary** agreements arises in this connection.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 176420)

## volunteers

Used about 11 169 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 72 · legal and administrative ≈ 872 · UN documents ≈ 10 206).

- J'ai besoin de **volontaires**.
  I need some **volunteers**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bout and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2567691](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2567691) [\#2567699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2567699))

- 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)

- au Soudan en qualité de **Volontaires** des Nations Unies
  National United Nations **Volunteers** for the United Nations Mission in the Sudan
  ([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 13064898)

- Y a-t-il des **volontaires** ?
  Are there any **volunteers**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2916701](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2916701) [\#4895912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4895912))

## nations

Used about 1 458 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 458).

- **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.

- L'augmentation rapide des départs **volontaires** a entraîné une surcharge de travail pour ceux qui sont restés.
  Rapid attrition in the number of employees led to an increased workload for those who remained.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#9032577](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9032577) [\#9206183](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9206183))

- Comme je n'ai pas d'enfants, je dispose de davantage de temps que les parents à consacrer à des travaux **volontaires**.
  Since I have no children, I have more time to spend doing volunteer work than parents do.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#909567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909567) [\#1406790](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1406790))

- La coalition des **volontaires**.
  The coalition of the willing.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#453243](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/453243) [\#474702](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/474702))

## Grammar

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