Sentence examples of "ancêtre" in French with translation "ancestor"

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Translations: all11 ancestor11
Tous les humains sur Terre sont issus d'un ancêtre commun. All humans on Earth are descended from a common ancestor.
Nous n'avons pas évolué à partir des singes. Nous partageons un ancêtre commun. We did not evolve from monkeys. We share a common ancestor.
Ses ancêtres sont venus d'Irlande. His ancestors went there from Ireland.
Nos ancêtres savaient lire les étoiles. Our ancestors knew how to read the stars.
Je peux tracer mes ancêtres deux cents ans en arrière. I can trace my ancestors back 200 years.
Nos ancêtres arrivèrent dans ce pays il y a 150 ans. Our ancestors arrived in this country 150 years ago.
Nos ancêtres ont développé des mâchoires imposantes à force de combats constants. Our ancestors developed massive jaws as a result of constant combat.
C'est la terre de mes ancêtres que tu foules de tes pieds ! It's the land of my ancestors that you're trampling with your feet!
J'ignore qui sont mes ancêtres. Nos papiers se sont perdus lors du Déluge. I don't know who my ancestors are. Our papers got lost during the Flood.
La tribu révère ses ancêtres et parle sa propre langue, et parle un langage inhabituel. The tribe worships its ancestors and speaks its own language, and speaks an unfamiliar language.
La raison pour laquelle notre fourrure est marron est que cela a permis à nos ancêtres les singes de se cacher parmi les noix de coco. The reason our hair is brown is that it enabled our monkey ancestors to hide amongst the coconuts.
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