material — English to French

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

What it means: material in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: material (133 521), materials (116 603). By style: everyday 87 · literary 12 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 5 152 · legal and administrative 59 191 · UN documents 185 676.

matériaux

Used about 60 100 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 395 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 181 · UN documents ≈ 44 485). Forms: matériaux, matériel.

• I prefer plain materials.

  Je préfère les matériaux simples.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by _undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2267088 #5600946

• The lower chambers were, in fact, full of materials.

  Les chambres inférieures étaient en effet pleines de matériaux.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7101

• Therefore, I took the shortest route for my consignment of radioactive material."

  Alors, moi, j'ai emprunté la route la plus courte pour transporter ce matériel radioactif".

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 167691

• Of which Number of consignments with compliant wood packaging material

  dont le nombre d'envois pour lesquels le matériel d'emballage en bois est conforme

  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 4526707

• Materials used and methods of construction:

  9.2 Matériaux utilisés et méthodes de construction:

  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 28240739

matières

Used about 56 609 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 771 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 746 · UN documents ≈ 27 078).

• I prefer plain materials.

  Je préfère les matières simples.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by _undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2267088 #5600947

• No violence accompanied this change; the matter thrown out was in vast quantities, and the liquid material oozing out from the abysses of the earth slowly spread in extensive plains or in hillocky masses.

  Le phénomène s'accomplissait alors sans violence; l'issue était énorme, et les matières fondues, rejetées des entrailles du globe, s'étendirent tranquillement en vastes nappes ou en masses mamelonnées.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1292

• Renewable raw materials will now come from agriculture.

  Aujourd'hui, les matières renouvelables proviennent de l'agriculture.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1754557

• Of synthetic textile materials

  en matières textiles synthétiques

  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 4696249

• Duration of the future fissile material cut-off treaty

  Durée du futur traité sur l ' arrêt de la production de matières fissiles

  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 28488516

More sentences

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

• This piece is made of a composite material that I cannot identify.

  Cette pièce est faite d'un matériau composite que je ne parviens pas à identifier.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #8657777 #8755945

• We could discuss the advantages of clay as basic sculpting material.

  On pourrait discuter des avantages de l’argile comme matériau de base en sculpture.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Igider · checked, community translation · #13855370 #12701763

• Studies say that true happiness comes from giving back, not from material things.

  Des études montrent que le bonheur véritable prend sa source dans le don en retour, pas dans les choses matérielles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4345950 #4404514

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