volontaire — French to English

How French volontaire is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: volontaire (30 893), volontaires (72 445). By style: everyday 88 · literary 5 · biblical 24 · parliamentary 2 807 · legal and administrative 4 548 · UN documents 95 866.

voluntary

Used about 75 687 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 222 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 558 · UN documents ≈ 70 901). Meaning: voluntary in the Elamur Dictionary.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Le quatrième point concerne les accords volontaires.

  The fourth point concerns voluntary agreements.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 553487

• Changements volontaires de méthodes comptables [axis]

  Voluntary changes in accounting policy [axis]

  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 5315335

• b Nouvelle contribution volontaire.

  b/ New voluntary contribution.

  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 689477

volunteer

Used about 14 467 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · parliamentary ≈ 117 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 327 · UN documents ≈ 12 982). Forms: volunteer, volunteers. Meaning: volunteer in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je suis volontaire.

  I am a volunteer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CC · checked, community translation · #3141154 #3141204

• Nous notons qu'enfin, une base légale est donnée aux volontaires.

  We would point out that a legal basis has at last been provided for volunteers.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 461056

• Conditions particulières applicables aux volontaires

  Specific conditions for volunteers

  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 3900254

• Stagiaires, auteurs et orateurs volontaires, FOPE

  As funded Volunteer authors and speakers, FOPE

  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 12723309

• J'ai besoin d'un volontaire.

  I need a volunteer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bout and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #2173671 #2567698

nations

Used about 999 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 999).

• Volontaires des Nations Unies

  United Nations Volun-teers

  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 8833109

More sentences

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

• C'était un vieil homme bienveillant qui se portait volontaire pour tondre la pelouse de ses voisins gratuitement.

  He was a benevolent old man who volunteered to mow his neighbors' lawns for free.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ANH_DAO and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #1998 #3806

• Je suis content que tu te sois porté volontaire pour aider.

  I'm glad you volunteered to help.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #4491054 #11026164

• Te portes-tu volontaire pour aider ?

  Are you volunteering to help?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3114033 #5441264

Grammar

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