life — English to French

How English life is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: life in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: life (190 599), lifes (4). By style: everyday 2 297 · literary 134 · biblical 410 · parliamentary 13 025 · legal and administrative 9 784 · UN documents 164 953.

vie

Used about 129 857 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 063 · literary ≈ 109 · biblical ≈ 342 · parliamentary ≈ 11 668 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 707 · UN documents ≈ 109 969).

• Get out of my life.

  Sortez de ma vie !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3122423 #499602

• I desire to forget life.

  Je désire oublier la vie.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14399

• I am the bread of life.

  Je suis le pain de vie.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 6:48

• (SK) Water is life.

  (SK) L'eau, c'est la vie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1143983

• Default half-life values:

  Valeurs de demi-vie par défaut:

  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 4635755

More sentences

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

• Life in the country is not always tranquil.

  À la campagne, on ne vit pas toujours au calme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #279094 #12464950

• I've known him my whole life.

  Je le connais depuis toujours.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3913821 #9706811

• A still life by a Dutch painter hangs in his room.

  Dans sa chambre est accrochée une nature morte d'un peintre néerlandais.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and GeeZ · checked, community translation · #6162985 #1206174

Grammar

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