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Ne te mêle pas de mes **affaires**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#250995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/250995) [\#6378643](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6378643)) - “Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own **affairs**!” --Décampe, la fée, et laisse les hommes faire leurs **affaires**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22074) - No soldier on duty entangles himself in the **affairs** of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier. Il n’est pas de soldat qui s’embarrasse des **affaires** de la vie, s’il veut plaire à celui qui l’a enrôlé; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TI 2:4) - Do you mean the letters from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign **Affairs**? Vous voulez parler de ceux des ministères de la Justice et des **Affaires** étrangères ? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 189029) - MARITIME **AFFAIRS** AND FISHERIES **AFFAIRES** MARITIMES ET PÊCHE ([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 2218932) ## ministre Used about 11 533 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 368 · legal and administrative ≈ 740 · UN documents ≈ 10 422). - All my **affairs** will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord. Tychique, le bien-aimé frère et le fidèle **ministre**, mon compagnon de service dans le Seigneur, vous communiquera tout ce qui me concerne. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · COL 4:7) - The Home **Affairs** Minister has resigned. Le **ministre** de l'Intérieur a démissionné. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1802888) - Position(s): Former First Deputy Minister of Internal **Affairs**; Fonction(s): Ancien premier vice-**ministre** de l’intérieur; ([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 5372867) - 7.30 p.m. Dinner given by the Minister for Foreign **Affairs** and Cooperation 19 h 30 Dîner offert par le **Ministre** des relations extérieures et de la coopération. ([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 3135109) - But that you also may know my **affairs**, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things. Afin que vous aussi, vous sachiez ce qui me concerne, ce que je fais, Tychique, le bien-aimé frère et fidèle **ministre** dans le Seigneur, vous informera de tout. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 6:21) ## haut Used about 5 211 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 5 211). - The Office of Legal **Affairs** informed OIOS that the Legal Counsel had provided oral comments to the Office of the High Commissioner. Le Bureau a informé le BSCI que le Conseiller juridique avait formulé des observations orales à ce sujet au **Haut** Commissariat. ([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 13692217) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He wouldn't let anyone interfere in his personal **affairs**. Il ne laissait personne s'immiscer dans sa vie privée. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#477218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/477218) [\#11777261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11777261)) - Why do men always seem to have **affairs** with their secretaries? Pourquoi les hommes semblent-ils toujours avoir des aventures avec leurs secrétaires ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1115627](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1115627) [\#1118082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1118082)) - Tom always meddles in **affairs** that do not concern him. Tom se mêle toujours de ce qui ne le regarde pas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5067268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5067268) [\#5067269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5067269)) ## 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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