volonté — French to English

How French volonté is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: volonté (84 191), volontés (642). By style: everyday 108 · literary 16 · biblical 96 · parliamentary 11 085 · legal and administrative 1 254 · UN documents 72 274.

political

Used about 23 643 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 540 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 · UN documents ≈ 21 080). Meaning: political in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je crois, Monsieur le Commissaire, en votre volonté politique.

  I have faith, Commissioner, in your political will.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 726572

• Ces propositions peuvent porter notamment sur un travail préparatoire des experts et doivent tenir compte de la volonté politique d'associer toutes les parties intéressées au processus.

  Such proposals might include preparatory work at expert level, and should take account of the political interest in involving all stakeholders in the process.

  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 776553

• Une telle procédure requiert du savoir-faire, des ressources et une volonté politique.

  It requires expertise, resources and political will.

  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 22130978

• Il doit être au cur des volontés politiques de nos partenaires.

  It must form the basis for our partners' political will.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 16867

• A présent, nous devons avant tout faire preuve de davantage de volonté politique.

  Above all, for now we need an injection of political will.

  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 20496787

commitment

Used about 12 417 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 115 · legal and administrative ≈ 255 · UN documents ≈ 12 046). Meaning: commitment in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'honorable député peut être assuré que nous continuerons à tendre vers cet objectif avec la plus ferme des volontés.

  The honourable Member can rest assured that we shall continue to work towards this objective with great commitment.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 916920

• Démontrer la volonté d’amélioration permanente et la pratique de cette amélioration.

  Demonstrate commitment to and practice of continuous improvement

  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 2842359

• a) En gardant les volontés mobilisées et en assurant la coordination

  (a) Maintaining commitment and ensuring national coordination:

  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 16018890

• Projet no 5: démonstration de la volonté de l’Union et de ses États membres et assurer leur visibilité

  Project 5: Demonstrating the commitment of the Union and its Member States and ensuring their visibility

  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 5342103

• b) Appuyer les activités de sensibilisation en vue de mobiliser les connaissances, les volontés et les énergies;

  (b) Support to advocacy to mobilize understanding, commitment and action;

  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 8178322

good

Used about 4 500 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 693 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 · UN documents ≈ 3 764). Meaning: good in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La volonté est aussi bonne que l'action.

  The will is as good as the deed.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and boink · checked, community translation · #24605 #1575067

• Lorsqu'on parle des couvents, ces lieux d'erreur, mais d'innocence, d'égarement, mais de bonne volonté, d'ignorance, mais de dévouement, de supplice, mais de martyre, il faut presque toujours dire oui et non.

  When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11110

• N’est-ce pas de la volonté du Très-Haut que viennent Les maux et les biens?

  Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:38

• Bien entendu, des vux sont exprimés, comme aujourd' hui, de bonnes volontés se manifestent.

  Of course, we may get an expression of wishes, as today, and of good intentions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 99824

• Elle a respecté ce souhait, mais a invité les producteurs à confirmer leur volonté de rester anonymes au cours des enquêtes de réexamen et à motiver leur demande.

  The Commission respected those requests, but invited them to confirm their wish to remain anonymous throughout the reviews investigations and to provide good cause for their request.

  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 4270774

willingness

Used about 3 916 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 577 · legal and administrative ≈ 325 · UN documents ≈ 3 011). Meaning: willingness in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ils ont exprimé leur volonté d'aider.

  They expressed their willingness to help.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and nava · checked, community translation · #3573883 #10601552

• Europe 2020 est synonyme de volonté de créer une union politique.

  Europe 2020 means the willingness to bring about a political union.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1393168

• manifeste sa volonté de participer au programme, et

  declares its willingness to be a member of the programme, and

  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 1724240

• Cela motive les fonctionnaires et encourage leur volonté de changement;

  Supporting staff motivation and willingness to change;

  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 21162878

• De plus, on constate du côté russe un manque total de volonté d'engager le dialogue avec les ONG.

  Moreover, there is a complete lack of willingness on the Russian side to engage with the NGOs.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1007344

More sentences

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

• Je n'ai aucune force de volonté lorsqu'il s'agit de faire de l'exercice.

  I have no will power when it comes to exercising.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · #4374646 #4374874

• Il a exprimé sa volonté d'arrêter la cigarette.

  He vowed to give up smoking.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · #295417 #805187

• Feu à volonté, mon ami. Feu à volonté.

  Weapons free my friend. Weapons free.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano_ and Myrano_ · checked, community translation · #13867684 #13867685

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