relative — English to French

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

What it means: relative in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: relative (31 551), relatives (18 332). By style: everyday 63 · literary 6 · biblical 61 · parliamentary 1 317 · legal and administrative 4 516 · UN documents 43 920.

relative

Used about 21 601 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 384 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 082 · UN documents ≈ 20 130). Forms: relative, relatives.

• Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

  La folie est relative. Ça dépend de qui a enfermé qui dans quelle cage.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1611717 #1614301

• The blind clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the King with royalty, did so almost without noticing the man in the fierce crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre breath, the relative innocence of all in that catastrophe, of those who condemned as well as of the man condemned,—he had looked on those things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind Louis XVI., that unfortunate passer-by who was made responsible, the terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had lingered in his soul the respectful fear of these immense justices of the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God.

  La clairvoyance aveugle de la Révolution, brisant la royauté dans le roi et le roi avec la royauté, sans presque remarquer l'homme dans le farouche écrasement de l'idée, le vaste orage de l'assemblée tribunal, la colère publique interrogeant, Capet ne sachant que répondre, l'effrayante vacillation stupéfaite de cette tête royale sous ce souffle sombre, l'innocence relative de tous dans cette catastrophe, de ceux qui condamnaient comme de celui qui était condamné, il avait regardé ces choses, il avait contemplé ces vertiges; il avait vu les siècles comparaître à la barre de la Convention; il avait vu, derrière Louis XVI, cet infortuné passant responsable, se dresser dans les ténèbres la formidable accusée, la monarchie; et il lui était resté dans l'âme l'épouvante respectueuse de ces immenses justices du peuple presque aussi impersonnelles que la justice de Dieu.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18177

• I only say this to illustrate the relative nature of the figures.

  Je dis cela uniquement pour illustrer la nature relative des chiffres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 813969

• This is a relative evaluation.

  Il s'agit d'une évaluation relative.

  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 4721078

• Questions relatives au programme [4]

  Questions relatives au programme [4]

  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 8231011

parents

Used about 5 746 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 165 · legal and administrative ≈ 517 · UN documents ≈ 5 033).

• Do you have relatives here?

  Avez-vous des parents ici ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #7686613 #8418526

• “I have no longer any relatives.”

  --Je n'ai plus de parents.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 3169

• For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

  Car je voudrais moi-même être anathème et séparé de Christ pour mes frères, mes parents selon la chair,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 9:3

• Amendment No 5 deals with relatives from the ascending line.

  L'amendement 5 traite des parents de ligne ascendante.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 83623

• with adult relatives; or

  auprès de parents adultes; ou

  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 1871735

proches

Used about 4 977 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 192 · legal and administrative ≈ 659 · UN documents ≈ 4 118).

• I often visit my relatives.

  Je rends souvent visite à mes proches.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2174962 #7793888

• My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

  Je suis abandonné de mes proches, Je suis oublié de mes intimes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 19:14

• Some have lost relatives, and many their homes.

  Certains ont perdu des proches, beaucoup leur foyer.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 354446

• Never had to care for incapacitated relatives

  N'a jamais dû s'occuper de proches en état d'incapacité

  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 4111087

• Many of those relatives have subsequently been arrested and deported.

  Nombre de ces proches ont par la suite été arrêtés puis expulsés.

  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 4381303

More sentences

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

• The problem quoted isn't one, but there are problems in the reading section that ask you to distinguish relative pronouns from relative adverbs.

  Le problème cité n'en est pas un, mais il y en a dans la partie lecture qui vous demandent de faire la distinction entre pronoms relatifs et adverbes relatifs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and Corvus · checked, community translation · #328686 #906194

• Tom is a distant relative of Mary's.

  Tom est un parent éloigné de Marie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #3444525 #1975518

• The problem quoted isn't one, but there are problems in the reading section that ask you to distinguish relative pronouns from relative adverbs.

  Le problème mentionné n'en est pas un. Cependant, il existe des problèmes dans la section lecture qui vous invitent à distinguer les pronoms relatifs des adverbes relatifs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #328686 #10015381

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