positive — French to English

How French positive is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: positive (35 942), positives (18 033). By style: everyday 21 · literary 1 · parliamentary 7 518 · legal and administrative 4 608 · UN documents 41 827.

positive

Used about 40 538 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 6 030 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 120 · UN documents ≈ 31 370). Meaning: positive in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Essaye de rester positive.

  Try to stay positive.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CK · checked, community translation · #8597947 #11955788

• 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.

  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.

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

• Je terminerai par une note positive.

  Lastly I leave you with this positive thought.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1107259

• recherche positive d'antigène dans le sang.

  positive antigen test on blood

  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 4520696

• Sa balance commerciale demeurait positive.

  The Territory ' s trade balance continued to be positive.

  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 7757869

More sentences

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

• Même si beaucoup apportent un soutien de façade à l'idée de discrimination positive, en réalité, très peu de personnes issues des minorités sont embauchées.

  Although many pay lip service to the idea of affirmative action, in reality, very few minorities get hired.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and papabear · checked, community translation · #267920 #332048

• Apprends à penser de manière positive !

  Learn to think positively!

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #7936847 #2427528

• J'ai besoin d'ondes positives.

  I need good vibes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and bitchoftheseus · checked, community translation · #10612396 #10610305

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