necessity — English to French

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

What it means: necessity in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: necessities (1 943), necessity (21 195). By style: everyday 40 · literary 12 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 1 635 · legal and administrative 1 509 · UN documents 19 936.

nécessité

Used about 13 455 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 818 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 182 · UN documents ≈ 11 422). Forms: nécessité, nécessités.

• I went there of necessity.

  J'y suis allé par nécessité.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #255841 #8547984

• Let us return—it is a necessity in this book—to that fatal battle-field.

  Revenons, c'est une nécessité de ce livre, sur ce fatal champ de bataille.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7629

• For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

  Si j’annonce l’Évangile, ce n’est pas pour moi un sujet de gloire, car la nécessité m’en est imposée, et malheur à moi si je n’annonce pas l’Évangile!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 9:16

• As I said, it has become a necessity.

  Comme je l’ai dit, c’est devenu une nécessité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 659398

• Necessity of the aid

  Nécessité de l'aide

  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 5636543

More sentences

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

• Talking is a necessity, listening is an art.

  Parler est un besoin, écouter est un art.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #6301770 #6301771

• Knowing how to conjugate verbs is an absolute necessity.

  Pour apprendre une langue, il est impératif de connaître la conjugaison des verbes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AmarMecheri and AmarMecheri · checked, community translation · #7062758 #7061694

• There is no necessity for you to do that.

  Il n'est pas nécessaire que vous fassiez ça.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and chtof · checked, community translation · #71574 #432177

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