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L'export d'**armes** était interdit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Serhiy and marisa2404 · checked, community translation · [\#785371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/785371) [\#1005560](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1005560)) - “To **arms**!” shouted the sergeant. --Aux **armes**! cria le sergent. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25310) - The concept of an **arms**-trade treaty was born. L'idée d'un traité sur le commerce des **armes** est alors née. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 944440) - **arms** or parts thereof (Chapter 93); les **armes** et leurs parties (chapitre 93); ([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 4063989) - C. Documented **arms** and ammunition C. **Armes** et munitions répertoriées ([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 25034590) ## légères Used about 39 338 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 39 338). - 1. Geneva Forum meetings on small **arms** 1. Forum de Genève : réunions sur les armes **légères** ([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 18038348) - Small **Arms** and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects illicite des armes **légères** sous tous ses aspects ([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 18401473) - The illicit trade in small **arms** and light weapons in Le commerce illicite des armes **légères** et de petit calibre ([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 25353185) - D. Combating the proliferation of small **arms** and light weapons D. Lutte contre la prolifération des armes **légères** ([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 14165395) - Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small **Arms** and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects sur le commerce illicite des armes **légères** sous tous ses aspects ([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 7818068) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - John was standing alone with his **arms** folded. John se tenait seul debout avec les bras croisés. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Nennella · checked, community translation · [\#52508](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/52508) [\#11830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11830)) - The coat of **arms** of Russia is very beautiful. Les armoiries de la Russie sont très belles. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#8903802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8903802) [\#8900370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8900370)) - She is holding her baby in her **arms**. Elle tient son bébé dans ses bras. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#315410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/315410) [\#134503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134503)) ## 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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