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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#7866536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7866536) [\#8730450](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8730450)) - "Well, uncle, we are going to resume the northern route, and to pass under the north countries of Europe--under Sweden, Russia, Siberia: who knows where?--instead of burrowing under the deserts of **Africa**, or perhaps the waves of the Atlantic; and that is all I want to know." —Mais nous allons reprendre la route du nord, passer sous les contrées septentrionales de l'Europe, la Suède, la Russie, la Sibérie, que sais-je! au lieu de nous enfoncer sous les déserts de l'**Afrique** ou les flots de l'Océan, et je ne veux pas en savoir davantage! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3594) - The situation is similar in large areas of South **Africa**. Dans de larges parties de l'**Afrique** du Sud, c'est la même chose. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 48287) - Republic of South **Africa** République d'**Afrique** du Sud ([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 3427267) - 16. Economic and social development in **Africa** 16. Développement économique et social en **Afrique** ([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 7829667) ## sud Used about 4 697 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 77 · UN documents ≈ 4 620). - western limit: a line running due south along 5o36′ west longitude from Punta Marroqui to the coast of **Africa**; limite ouest: ligne allant plein **sud** le long de 5o36′ de longitude ouest de Punta Marroqui jusqu'à la côte africaine; ([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 1810933) - I welcome the considerable progress made to address the shortfall with new deployments from the Governments of South **Africa** and Pakistan. Je me félicite des considérables progrès accomplis dans la solution de ce problème, notamment la fourniture de nouveaux appareils par les Gouvernements **sud**-africain et pakistanais. ([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 26777847) ## on Used about 4 620 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 620). - There are an estimated 60,000 commercial farms in South **Africa**. Le nombre des exploitations où l ' **on** pratique l ' agriculture commerciale est estimé à 60 000. ([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 1961275) ## nord Used about 5 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5). - My friend comes from North **Africa**. Mon amie est **nord**-africaine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12976331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976331) [\#12976335](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976335)) - My friend comes from North **Africa**. Mon ami est d'origine **nord**-africaine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12976331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976331) [\#12976336](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976336)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - In the light of all this the European Union is talking in theoretical, even angelic tones, while all the time it too is engaged in exploiting **Africa**'s natural resources. L'Union européenne, de ce point de vue, tient un discours très théorique, voire angélique, tout en participant aussi à l'exploitation de ces ressources. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 984935) - The dramatic famine which the people of **Africa** are suffering imposes the need to plan global strategic aid, not belated mercy actions. La grave famine que subissent les populations africaines impose la nécessité de planifier une aide stratégique mondiale et non des actes de pitié tardifs. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 715494) - I have discussed AIDS in **Africa** with President Mugabe. J'ai discuté du SIDA avec le président Mugabe. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 36616) ## 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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