lives — English to French

How English lives is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: lives (46 840). By style: everyday 855 · literary 19 · biblical 131 · parliamentary 5 687 · legal and administrative 451 · UN documents 39 697.

vie

Used about 29 668 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 4 502 · legal and administrative ≈ 272 · UN documents ≈ 24 811). Forms: vie, vies.

• That changes people's lives.

  Cela change la vie des gens.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Rovo · checked, community translation · #12391288 #12390810

• 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

• Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.

  Fuyez, sauvez votre vie, Et soyez comme un misérable dans le désert!

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

• 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

vit

Used about 3 108 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 410 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 118 · legal and administrative ≈ 66 · UN documents ≈ 2 481).

• 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

• The child is thoroughly confused and lives shut up in a cellar.

  L'enfant ne comprend plus rien et vit caché dans un sous-sol.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1622199

• 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.

• She lives with him in a small house.

  Elle habite avec lui dans une petite maison.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sabretou and tras · checked, community translation · #7357075 #7357228

• My girlfriend lives near the post office.

  Ma petite amie habite aux alentours de la poste.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Rovo · checked, community translation · #12245956 #12246948

• She lives in New York.

  Elle habite à New York.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #456735 #2020010

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