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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2107331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2107331) [\#4775622](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4775622)) - The risks are greater among children than **adults**. Les risques sont plus marqués chez les enfants que chez les **adultes**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 581232) - 75 mg/day for **adults** 75 mg/jour pour les **adultes** ([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 4460918) - Are children ever detained among **adults**? Les enfants sontils détenus parmi les **adultes**? ([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 20417852) - Now we're **adults**. Nous sommes désormais **adultes**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ravensfeather and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#9821018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9821018) [\#9821023](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9821023)) ## chez Used about 10 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 10). - To set up limit values, estimated food intakes for **adults** were used as a basis. Les valeurs limites ont été fixées sur la base de la consommation d’aliments estimée **chez** l’adulte. ([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 2497085) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Adults** never understand anything on their own. Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8984629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8984629) [\#8984597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8984597)) - About 65% of American **adults** are overweight, which isn't good for their health. À peu près 65% des Américains sont en surpoids, ce qui n'est pas bon pour leur santé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#681152](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/681152) [\#1168738](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1168738)) - In Hungary today, for example, only one in every four **adults** uses the Internet regularly. Ainsi, en Hongrie, aujourd’hui, seul un adulte sur quatre utilise régulièrement l’internet. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 695120) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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