materials — English to French

How English materials is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: materials (116 603). By style: everyday 43 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 428 · legal and administrative 30 930 · UN documents 83 198.

matières

Used about 30 615 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 1 315 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 620 · UN documents ≈ 8 666).

• 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

• 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

• 30. Guam is a duty-free port that facilitates the movement of raw materials for manufacturing.

  Guam, port franc, facilite le mouvement des matières premières destinées à la fabrication.

  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 7756631

• Japan is lacking in raw materials.

  Le Japon manque de matières premières.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and hortusdei · checked, community translation · #281484 #331058

matériaux

Used about 27 432 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 809 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 799 · UN documents ≈ 20 800).

• 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

• The potential for biogas recovered from natural materials such as annual manure has still not been fully exploited.

  Le potentiel de biogaz récupérable à partir de matériaux naturels tels que le fumier annuel n'est pas encore exploité entièrement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1049796

• Waste collection, treatment and disposal services; materials recovery services

  Collecte, traitement et élimination des déchets; récupération de matériaux

  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 1545077

• 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

produits

Used about 2 378 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 644 · UN documents ≈ 1 733).

• Roofing and facing products, of asphalt or of similar materials, in rolls

  Articles de revêtement, en asphalte ou en produits similaires, en rouleaux

  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 226034

• Other legislation/regulations controlling chemical materials

  Autres lois et règlements sur le contrôle des produits chimiques

  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 16022101

More sentences

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

• The novelist gathered materials for his work.

  Le romancier a rassemblé des documents pour son travail.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and JnRouvignac · checked, community translation · #46506 #431017

• Can you tell us about your experience in developing technical materials?

  Pouvez-vous nous parler de votre expérience dans le développement de matériel technique ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pandark and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #688555 #688585

• I have not yet collected sufficient materials to write a book.

  Je n'ai pas encore réuni suffisamment de contenu pour écrire un livre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by emmettricks and sysko · checked, community translation · #1159257 #1856765

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