voluntary — English to French

How English voluntary is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: voluntary in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: voluntaries (4), voluntary (100 196). By style: everyday 4 · literary 5 · parliamentary 3 165 · legal and administrative 4 204 · UN documents 92 822.

volontaire

Used about 67 703 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 506 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 715 · UN documents ≈ 62 476). Forms: volontaire, volontaires.

• That company aims to reduce employee numbers by arranging a lot of retirement money for voluntary redundancies.

  Cette entreprise cherche à réduire le nombre de ses employés en mettant à disposition beaucoup d'argent pour les départs volontaires.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #502806 #548640

• He had not known either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured his eyes.

  Il n'avait connu ni l'un ni l'autre, et il avait eu une sorte de nuit volontaire sur les yeux.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13585

• But what does voluntary mean?

  Mais qu'est-ce qui est volontaire ?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 199293

• To be analysed on voluntary basis in 2013.

  À analyser sur une base volontaire en 2013.

  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 2665064

• 21. Voluntary contributions in kind

  Contributions volontaires en nature

  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 1565583

fonds

Used about 1 785 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 785).

• Towards an enhanced financial mechanism for assistance in mine action: the revision of the terms of reference of the Voluntary Trust Fund

  F. Vers un renforcement du mécanisme de financement de l ' assistance à la lutte antimines: révision du mandat du Fonds d ' affectation spéciale

  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 25583303

More sentences

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

• That organization depends on voluntary contributions.

  Cette organisation dépend des bénévoles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and superbolo · checked, community translation · #45639 #139635

• Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction in wants. This alone can promote real happiness and contentment.

  La civilisation, au sens réel du terme, ne consiste pas à multiplier les besoins, mais à les réduire délibérément, volontairement. Cela seul amène le vrai bonheur, le véritable contentement.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #5199239 #5199249

• She did a lot of voluntary work for the Red Cross.

  Elle a fait beaucoup de bénévolat pour la Croix Rouge.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Romira · checked, community translation · #315433 #182140

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