indigenous — English to French

How English indigenous is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: indigenous in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: indigenous (169 141). By style: everyday 16 · parliamentary 730 · legal and administrative 665 · UN documents 167 730.

autochtones

Used about 126 105 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 152 · legal and administrative ≈ 152 · UN documents ≈ 125 798).

• The Indigenous people of North America fashioned sturdy, lightweight canoes from the bark of birch trees.

  Les peuples autochtones d'Amérique du Nord fabriquaient des canoës robustes et légers à partir d'écorce de bouleau.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10042400 #10340799

• Commissioner, what about the indigenous peoples?

  - Monsieur le Commissaire, qu’en est-il des peuples autochtones?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 824869

• Preference is to be given to indigenous breeds and strains.

  La préférence est donnée aux races et souches autochtones.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 1596484

• D. The rights of indigenous people

  D. Les droits des populations autochtones

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 632616

• Palestine should be the country of all those who wish to live there peacefully, not a land destined to a religious or ethnic group at the expense of indigenous groups.

  La Palestine devrait être le pays de tous ceux qui veulent y vivre en paix, pas une terre destinée à un groupe religieux ou ethnique au dépens des groupes autochtones.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Amastan · checked, community translation · #5629420 #5562710

populations

Used about 3 601 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 106 · UN documents ≈ 3 494).

• Indigenous peoples of Australia

  Populations indigènes d'Australie

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1803206

• (b) State of the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations;

  (b) State of the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations;

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 13894357

• Derogations for indigenous populations have also been clarified and their scope further limited.

  Les dérogations accordées aux populations indigènes ont également été clarifiées et leur portée réduite.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1731167

• Journalists, indigenous communities, and especially women, both indigenous and nonindigenous, are particularly affected.

  Les journalistes, les populations indigènes, et notamment les femmes, indigènes ou non, sont particulièrement touchés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1361882

• The 'Kinh', the so-called real Vietnamese, consider themselves superior to the indigenous peoples of the central highlands.

  Les "Kinh", les "véritables" Vietnamiens, se croient supérieurs aux populations indigènes des hautes terres centrales.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 316175

peuples

Used about 138 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 137).

• Latino Americans know very few things about the indigenous people's history who lived here a few centuries ago.

  Les latino-américains savent très peu de choses de l'histoire des peuples indigènes qui habitaient ici il y a quelques siècles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ouitroisheures19 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #7681759 #2066945

• Or like the protection of the terrorised indigenous peoples fleeing from Burma.

  Ou intervenir en Birmanie pour protéger les peuples indigènes terrorisés fuyant le pays.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 46631

• I want you too to feel proud of the original indigenous peoples, who defend life.

  Je veux que, vous aussi, vous soyez fiers des peuples indigènes primitifs, qui défendent la vie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 809627

• These remedies have often been developed from the traditional pharmaceutical products of indigenous people.

  Souvent, ces médicaments ont été développés depuis des produits pharmaceutiques traditionnels des peuples indigènes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1841459

• Mr President, in many places in the world we are seeing violations of the human rights of indigenous populations.

  Monsieur le Président, en de nombreux endroits de la planète, nous voyons que les droits des peuples indigènes sont foulés aux pieds.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1803222

communautés

Used about 44 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 30 · legal and administrative ≈ 14).

• I should like now to mention the indigenous people.

  Je voudrais encore ajouter un mot à propos des communautés indigènes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1731050

• seal hunts conducted by Inuit or other indigenous communities which have a tradition of seal hunting in the community and in the geographical region;

  elles sont pratiquées par des communautés inuites ou d’autres communautés indigènes qui ont une tradition de chasse aux phoques dans la communauté et dans la région géographique;

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 2140537

• However, we are not as sceptical as the rapporteur with regard to the exemptions included in the agreement to safeguard the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples.

  Cependant, nous ne sommes pas aussi sceptiques que le rapporteur au sujet des exceptions posées dans l'accord pour préserver l'héritage culturel des communautés indigènes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1732975

More sentences

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

• Colonists often take a shine to indigenous women.

  Les colons s'emballent souvent pour les femmes indigènes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #796815 #796821

• The tilcayo of Bolivia is the newest cat species known to scientists, discovered by them in 2026, though the local indigenous people already knew about it.

  Le tilcayo de Bolivie est la plus récente espèce de félins connue des scientifiques, découverte par eux en 2026, bien qu'elle soit déjà connue des indigènes locaux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · #14055720 #14055759

• Spanish isn't the only language spoken in Mexico. There are also various indigenous languages.

  L'espagnol n'est pas la seule langue qu'on parle au Mexique. On y parle aussi de nombreuses langues indigènes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lumi and menaud · checked, community translation · #13239722 #13239740

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