live — English to French

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

What it means: live in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: live (63 637), lives (46 840). By style: everyday 2 824 · literary 52 · biblical 444 · parliamentary 12 451 · legal and administrative 8 216 · UN documents 86 490.

vie

Used about 30 296 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 60 · parliamentary ≈ 3 761 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 054 · UN documents ≈ 24 325).

• Long live the Persian language!

  Longue vie au persan !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mahdiye and AnastasijaN · checked, community translation · #513906 #5897174

• You save people’s lives, and you conceal it from them!

  Vous sauvez la vie aux gens, et vous le leur cachez!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31964

• For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

  car Christ est ma vie, et la mort m’est un gain.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 1:21

• Their lives are in danger.

  Leur vie est en danger.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1960102

• Safety of Lives at Sea IMO Convention

  Convention de l’OMI sur la sauvegarde de la vie humaine en mer

  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 2089490

personnes

Used about 6 573 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 167 · UN documents ≈ 5 406).

• In the European Union, many people live many lives.

  Au sein de l'Union européenne, beaucoup de personnes vivent plusieurs vies.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 879544

• Surprise all the millions of people who live in abject poverty.

  Surprenez les millions de personnes qui vivent dans la pauvreté absolue.

  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 6967182

• 79 million people in the EU still live below the poverty line.

  L'Europe compte encore 79 millions de personnes vivant sous le seuil de pauvreté.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1470416

• 314. Roma live in private homes (92 per cent of respondents).

  314. Les Tsiganes vivent dans des maisons particulières (92% des personnes interrogées).

  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 27768425

• This primarily hits the area around airports and those who live there.

  Les environs des aéroports et les personnes qui y vivent sont les premiers touchés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 975803

vivre

Used about 6 540 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 441 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 28 · parliamentary ≈ 1 556 · UN documents ≈ 4 505).

• I'm going to live alone.

  Je vais vivre seul.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by erixa83 and Aiji · checked, community translation · #7342512 #8185533

• Then I said: ‘I cannot live anywhere else than here.’

  Alors j'ai dit: Je ne puis pas vivre ailleurs que là.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30313

• “You shall not allow a sorceress to live.

  Tu ne laisseras point vivre la magicienne.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 22:18

• We cannot decide whether or not they want to live in the USA.

  Nous ne pouvons pas décider de leur volonté ou non de vivre aux États-Unis.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1207018

• But is this the only way for us to live?

  Mais est-ce bien la seule façon de vivre?

  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 8749673

vit

Used about 6 415 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 735 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 519 · legal and administrative ≈ 599 · UN documents ≈ 4 505).

• Tom lives like a king.

  Tom vit comme un roi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #2821619 #8731591

• "He lives! he lives!" he cried.

  «Il vit! il vit! s'écria-t-il.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2478

• But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

  Mais celle qui vit dans les plaisirs est morte, quoique vivante.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 5:6

• Almost one fifth of children live in poverty.

  Près d'un enfant sur cinq vit dans la pauvreté.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1018221

• Other information: lives in the United Kingdom.’

  Renseignement complémentaire: vit au Royaume-Uni.»

  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 735276

More sentences

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

• Do you live with flatmates?

  T'habites avec des colocs ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #13992333 #13992340

• Do you live with roommates?

  Est-ce que tu es en colocation ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #13992332 #13992355

• I live in Boston.

  Je vis à Boston.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · #2377660 #2745120

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