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Forms: avance, avances, avancées. - I paid in **advance**. J'ai payé d'**avance**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2389851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2389851) [\#2390082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2390082)) - And six months paid in **advance**.” Et six mois payés d'**avance**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3401) - **Advances** have been made. Il y a des **avancées**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 639307) - Trade credits and **advances** Crédits commerciaux et **avances** ([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 2944000) - Value added tax refundable Rental **advances** **Avances** au titre des loyers ([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 18196071) ## progrès Used about 12 049 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 805 · legal and administrative ≈ 98 · UN documents ≈ 11 139). - Medical science has made a dramatic **advance**. La science médicale a réalisé d'immenses **progrès**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#28117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28117) [\#7683520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7683520)) - It would be a step forward - an **advance**. Ce serait un pas et un **progrès**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1610056) - The fields of research set out in paragraph 2 shall be reviewed for the second phase of this programme (2010 to 2013) in the light of scientific **advances**. Les domaines de recherche visés au paragraphe 2 font l'objet d'une révision à la lumière des **progrès** scientifiques avant la deuxième phase du présent programme (2010-2013). ([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 866797) - 3. **Advances** were made towards the further strengthening of the Timorese legal framework. Le renforcement du cadre juridique du pays a marqué des **progrès**. ([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 14181966) - Science has made rapid **advances** in that country. La science a fait de rapides **progrès** dans le pays. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#8294191](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8294191) [\#946951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/946951)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Those who can't **advance** in the light will often try to do it in the dark. Ceux qui sont incapables de se distinguer en pleine lumière tentent souvent de le faire dans l'ombre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12421708](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12421708) [\#2708893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2708893)) - You can't say that civilization doesn't **advance**, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. On ne peut pas dire que la civilisation ne progresse pas, car pour chaque guerre, ils trouvent de nouvelles façons de vous égorger. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#425398](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/425398) [\#425458](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/425458)) - He decided neither to **advance** nor to retreat. Il a décidé de ne pas avancer ni de battre retraite. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#300719](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/300719) [\#132812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132812)) ## 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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