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J'aimerais emprunter **environ** trois-cent-mille dollars. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1936519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1936519) [\#5377503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5377503)) - “**About** three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget.” --Trois quarts d'heure **environ** avant minuit; n'oubliez pas. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11689) - **About** three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in. **Environ** trois heures plus tard, sa femme entra, sans savoir ce qui était arrivé. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 5:7) - Mr President, Commissioner, I met Akin Birdal **about** two weeks ago in Turkey. Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Commissaire, j'ai rencontré Akin Birdal il y a **environ** deux semaines en Turquie. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1920690) - The sales volume during the IP was **about** 4845 tons. Pendant la période d’enquête, elle a vendu **environ** 4845 tonnes de produit similaire. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 754656) ## informations Used about 32 180 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 7 093 · UN documents ≈ 25 087). - Information **about** in-use performance data **Informations** relatives aux données d’efficacité en service ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 5471605) - 18. Our partners have called for more information **about** the rights of women in this country. Nos partenaires demandent plus d ' **informations** sur les droits des femmes dans ce pays. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 21025754) - Information **about** the terms governing the future contract. **Informations** sur les conditions régissant le futur marché. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 5016854) - IFTDH disseminates information to its members **about** UN events, programmes and publications through an internal Newsletter. La Fédération diffuse des **informations** à ses membres au sujet des manifestations, programmes et publications de l ' ONU par le biais d ' un magazine interne. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 12091081) - The disclosure of detailed information **about** investment property. **Informations** détaillées relatives aux immeubles de placement. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 5307361) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - How **about** taking a rest? Et si on se reposait un peu ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and gabrielle · checked, community translation · [\#27831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/27831) [\#7809855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7809855)) - I didn't think **about** that. Je n'y ai pas réfléchi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#2275943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2275943) [\#8899775](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8899775)) - This is a book **about** England. C'est un livre sur l'Angleterre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#55804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/55804) [\#1716164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1716164)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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