positive — English to French

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

What it means: positive in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: positive (114 118), positives (297). By style: everyday 90 · literary 3 · parliamentary 15 318 · legal and administrative 9 680 · UN documents 89 324.

positif

Used about 88 608 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 64 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 14 010 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 470 · UN documents ≈ 66 063). Forms: positif, positifs, positive, positives.

• Try to stay positive.

  Essaye de rester positif.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #8597947 #11955787

• It is not that Combeferre was not capable of fighting, he did not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for conflagration.

  Ce n'est pas que Combeferre ne fût capable de combattre, il ne refusait pas de prendre corps à corps l'obstacle et de l'attaquer de vive force et par explosion; mais mettre peu à peu, par l'enseignement des axiomes et la promulgation des lois positives, le genre humain d'accord avec ses destinées, cela lui plaisait mieux; et, entre deux clartés, sa pente était plutôt pour l'illumination que pour l'embrasement.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14017

• Those are positives.

  Tout cela est positif.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 760173

• 愦灭;gt; 2 % of RH1 (D) positives

  愦灭;gt; 2 % des RH1 (D) positifs

  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 1713416

• But there are some positives.

  Il y a cependant des éléments positifs.

  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 20190563

More sentences

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

• Is this positive news?

  Est-ce une bonne nouvelle ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Anthaus · checked, community translation · #6973058 #2490250

• I am positive that he is wrong.

  Je suis certain qu'il a tort.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #21698 #9443

• We're positive that they forgot to call us.

  Nous sommes sûrs qu'ils ont oublié de nous appeler.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by erikspen and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #1681015 #1675275

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