moral — English to French

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

What it means: moral in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: moral (21 426), morals (3 566). By style: everyday 44 · literary 9 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 2 145 · legal and administrative 251 · UN documents 22 541.

moral

Used about 18 242 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 1 542 · legal and administrative ≈ 219 · UN documents ≈ 16 436). Forms: moral, morale, moralité.

• He lacks moral sense.

  Il manque de sens moral.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lumi and Snout · checked, community translation · #284884 #525381

• The revolutionary sense is a moral sense.

  Le sens révolutionnaire est un sens moral.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21615

• It is about morals and ethics.

  Il s'agit de morale et d'étique.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1738522

• necessary to protect public morals;

  nécessaires à la protection de la moralité publique;

  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 178280

• 1. Minors in moral danger

  1. Mineurs en danger moral

  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 315970

More sentences

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

• I have moral standards.

  J'ai des principes moraux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2700754 #5549499

• She's a woman of low moral character.

  C'est une femme aux mœurs légères.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #8401065 #11840221

• A moral person doesn't lie, cheat, or steal.

  Une personne vertueuse ne ment, ne triche et ne vole pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and dominiko · checked, community translation · #280454 #129622

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