maternelle — French to English

How French maternelle is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 7 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: maternelle (31 347), maternelles (4 565). By style: everyday 169 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 668 · legal and administrative 159 · UN documents 34 914.

maternal

Used about 18 357 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 97 · legal and administrative ≈ 65 · UN documents ≈ 18 184). Meaning: maternal in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La mère de ma mère est ma grand-mère maternelle.

  My mother's mother is my maternal grandmother.

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• La mortalité maternelle y est donc très importante.

  Maternal mortality is therefore very high.

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• Projet pilote – vaccination maternelle:

  Pilot project — Maternal immunisation:

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• Soins de santé maternelle

  Maternal health-care system

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• Elle parle cinq langues, mais quand elle veut jurer, elle le fait dans sa langue maternelle.

  She knows five languages, but when she wants to swear, she does so in her maternal language.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · #3605298 #11624220

kindergartens

Used about 4 779 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 14 · legal and administrative ≈ 37 · UN documents ≈ 4 728).

• Les gouvernements devraient s'engager davantage en faveur des parents qui élèvent et éduquent des enfants et de l'accueil des enfants dans des crèches et écoles maternelles.

  Governments should be more committed to the raising and education of children and their accommodation at creches and kindergartens.

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• Il conviendrait de rendre accessibles les fonctions administratives essentielles en ligne des établissements scolaires, des écoles maternelles ou des crèches.

  Essential online administrative functions of schools, kindergartens or nurseries should be made accessible.

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• Source : Direction générale des écoles maternelles, rapport 2006

  Source: General Department for Kindergartens - report 2006.

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• Deuxièmement, je voudrais exprimer mes sincères remerciements à M. Špidla pour avoir offert la possibilité, dans le cadre du Fonds social européen, qui est le principal instrument financier de l'Union européenne, de réaliser une enquête dans les écoles maternelles.

  Secondly, I want to express immense thanks to Mr Špidla for allowing, in the European Social Fund, the European Union's great financial instrument, the possibility of investing in kindergartens.

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• Inclusion dans les écoles maternelles et élémentaires au titre de l'axe prioritaire «Éducation» du PO «Ressources humaines» (2014SK05M0OP001)

  Inclusion in kindergartens and elementary schools under Priority Axis Education of Operational Programme Human Resources (2014SK05M0OP001)

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tongue

Used about 3 230 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 244 · legal and administrative ≈ 26 · UN documents ≈ 2 910). Meaning: tongue in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'ourdou est sa langue maternelle.

  Urdu is her mother tongue.

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• Je vais à présent m'exprimer dans ma langue maternelle.

  I shall now use my mother tongue.

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• Communication dans la langue maternelle

  Communication in the mother tongue

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• Allemand (langue maternelle), anglais, français, rudiments d ' espagnol

  German (mother tongue), English, French, some Spanish

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• Quelle est ta langue maternelle ?

  What is your mother tongue?

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school

Used about 2 216 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 21 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 · UN documents ≈ 2 182). Forms: school, schools. Meaning: school in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Elle va entrer en deuxième année de maternelle.

  She is going into the second year of pre-school.

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• Nous pensons que cette solution serait extrêmement difficile à mettre en pratique, coûteuse et inefficace, en particulier dans les écoles accueillant de nombreux enfants de langues maternelles diverses. De plus, nous ne pensons pas que cela contribuerait à favoriser l'intégration des migrants dans les communautés locales.

  It is our belief that this will be extremely unworkable, costly and inefficient, particularly in schools which have children from many diverse linguistic backgrounds and would do little to foster integration of migrants into local communities.

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• Utilisation des services de garde d’enfants pendant la semaine, notamment pour le plus jeune enfant vivant au foyer (les assistantes maternelles rémunérées et les structures préscolaires y comprises, à l’exclusion du cadre de la scolarité obligatoire).

  Use of childcare services per week for the youngest child living in the household (including paid childminders, pre-school; apart from compulsory school)

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• La faiblesse des effectifs des écoles maternelles;

  The low level of pre-school enrolment;

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• L'académie kabyle prépare une plateforme qui prendra en charge tout le programme scolaire kabyle et ce de la maternelle à l'universitaire.

  The Kabyle academy is preparing a platform that will take care of the entire Kabyle school program from kindergarten to university.

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mother

Used about 1 893 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 63 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 · UN documents ≈ 1 818). Meaning: mother in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ma grand-mère maternelle vit à Osaka.

  My grandmother on my mother's side lives in Osaka.

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• Iles, écoutez-moi! Peuples lointains, soyez attentifs! L’Éternel m’a appelé dès ma naissance, Il m’a nommé dès ma sortie des entrailles maternelles.

  Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: the LORD has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 49:1

• Qu’adviendra-t-il de certaines langues maternelles oubliées par l’UE?

  What will happen to some mother tongues which have been forgotten by the EU?

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• Vụ Sức khỏe Bà mẹ – Trẻ em (Département de la santé infantile et maternelle)

  Vụ Sức khỏe Bà mẹ – Trẻ em (Department of Children - Mother Health)

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• Les 10 langues maternelles les plus fréquemment enseignées sont les suivantes: arabe, bosniaque, croate, serbe, finnois, espagnol, albanais, anglais, farsi et turc.

  The 10 most common mother tongues are Arabic, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Finnish, Spanish, Albanian, English, Farsi and Turkish.

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nursery

Used about 1 607 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 118 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 · UN documents ≈ 1 455). Meaning: nursery in the Elamur Dictionary.

• T'es en maternelle ou quoi ?

  Are you in nursery or what?

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• Au point 24, il est indiqué qu'il est important que la mixité puisse exister dans l'éducation sportive pour les enfants des écoles maternelles et primaires.

  Paragraph 24 talks about the importance of offering sports coeducation for children at nursery and primary schools.

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• C'est-à-dire à l'exclusion des écoles maternelles ou assimilées.

  i.e. excluding nursery school or equivalent.

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• Les écoles maternelles sont destinées aux enfants de 3 à 7 ans.

  Nursery schools are intended for children at the age of three to seven.

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• Ton petit est en maternelle ?

  Is your little one in nursery?

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native

Used about 474 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 47 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 49 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 · UN documents ≈ 364). Meaning: native in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C’est pas ma langue maternelle.

  It's not my native language.

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• Et comment les entendons-nous dans notre propre langue à chacun, dans notre langue maternelle?

  How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 2:8

• Elle a obtenu la reconnaissance de la Commission avec un rapport rédigé en hongrois, sa langue maternelle.

  The winner of the award earned the Commission's recognition with a report written in Hungarian, her native language.

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• la langue maternelle du candidat.

  the applicant’s native language.

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• c) Assurant dans la mesure du possible aux enfants roms la possibilité de suivre un enseignement dans leur langue maternelle;

  (c) Ensuring, to the extent possible, adequate opportunities for Roma children to receive instruction in their native language;

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More sentences

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

• Ton petit est en école maternelle ?

  Is your little one in preschool?

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• Ta petite est en école maternelle ?

  Is your little one in preschool?

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• T'es en maternelle ou quoi ?

  Are you in kindergarten or something?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #13017566 #13017562

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