Usage examples of "nous-mêmes" in French with translation to English

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Translations: all11 ourselves9 our own selves1 other translations1

Nous l'avons fait nous-mêmes. We did it ourselves.

Lorsque nous racontons de tels mensonges, je pense que nous informons les autres sur nous-mêmes. When we tell such lies, I think we are informing others about our own selves.

Nous ne sommes pas nés pour nous-mêmes. We are not born for ourselves.

Pourquoi ne pouvons-nous pas nous chatouiller nous-mêmes ? Why can't we tickle ourselves?

Quel est le meilleur gouvernement ? Celui qui nous apprend à nous gouverner nous-mêmes. Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Nous gardons secrètes nos pensées les plus intéressantes et la part la plus intéressante de nous-mêmes. We keep our most interesting thoughts and the most interesting side of ourselves hidden away.

Lorsque nous cherchons à découvrir le meilleur des autres, nous faisons ressortir quelque part le meilleur de nous-mêmes. When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Penser ce que nous ne ressentons pas est nous mentir à nous-mêmes, de la même manière que nous mentons aux autres lorsque nous disons ce que nous ne pensons pas. To think what we do not feel is to lie to ourselves, in the same way that we lie to others when we say what we do not think.

Une personne peut être fière sans être vaine. La fierté provient ordinairement de l’opinion que nous avons de nous-mêmes, et la vanité de celle que nous désirons que les autres aient de nous. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

Nous, le Peuple des États-Unis, en vue de former une Union plus parfaite, d'établir la justice, de faire régner la paix intérieure, de pourvoir à la défense commune, de développer le bien-être général et d'assurer les bienfaits de la liberté à nous-mêmes et à notre postérité, nous décrétons et établissons cette Constitution pour les États-Unis d'Amérique. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Pourquoi n'allons-nous pas vérifier par nous-mêmes ? Why don't we go check it out?

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