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Forms: actif, actifs, active, actives. - Tom is very **active**. Tom est très **actif**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#4494965](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4494965) [\#8318285](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8318285)) - All this **active**, organized, tranquil life, recurring around him under a thousand forms, hurt him. Toute cette vie **active**, organisée, tranquille, reproduite autour de lui sous mille formes, lui fit mal. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5848) - They want to be **active** citizens. Ils veulent être des citoyens **actifs**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 76075) - Approval of **active** substance Approbation de la substance **active** ([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 2660989) - **ACTIVES** AU FOYER (FEFAF) **ACTIVES** AU FOYER (FEFAF) ([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 7289560) ## fédération Used about 5 321 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 5 321). - Fédération européenne des femmes **actives** au foyer (1998) **Fédération** des femmes cubaines (1997) ([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 13686350) - Federation européenne des femmes **actives** au **Fédération** internationale des ligues des droits de l ' homme ([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 12229516) - Fédération européenne des femmes **actives** au foyer (1998) **Fédération** des syndicats indépendants de Russie (1998) ([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 12055761) - Fédération européenne des femmes **actives** au foyer (1998) **Fédération** canadienne des femmes diplômées des universités (1998) ([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 10620836) ## non Used about 887 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 887). - **actives** au foyer, a non-governmental organization in **non** gouvernementale dotée du statut consultatif ([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 15731687) ## rôle Used about 887 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 887). - During the period from 1991 to 1997, there were important developments in Guatemala in which women played an **active** role in many areas of social and political life. Pendant la période allant de 1991 à 1997, le Guatemala a enregistré des progrès sensibles en ce qui concerne le **rôle** de la femme dans nombre de domaines sociopolitiques. ([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 8989869) ## européenne Used about 130 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 130). - There must be much **active** work and goodwill shown on the part of both the Union and Turkey to achieve this. Pour parvenir à ce résultat, l' Union **européenne** aussi bien que la Turquie devront uvrer activement et faire preuve de bonne volonté. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2014626) ## foyer Used about 130 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 130). - The European Parliament will play a particularly **active** part in this matter as a focus for the variety of European cultures. Le Parlement européen, en tant que **foyer** de la diversité des cultures européennes va devoir particulièrement s'engager en la matière. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1747000) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Some animals are **active** at night. Certains animaux vivent la nuit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Ellis · checked, community translation · [\#324016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324016) [\#138865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/138865)) - The investigation is still **active**. L'enquête est toujours en cours. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5409520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5409520) [\#11266375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11266375)) - My grandfather is still **active** at eighty. Mon grand-père est encore dynamique à quatre-vingts ans. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#251333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251333) [\#8130446](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8130446)) ## 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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