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Il **porte** des balafres sur son visage. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13807301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13807301) [\#10591276](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10591276)) - Waterloo **bears** divine right on its crupper. Waterloo **porte** en croupe le droit divin. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7539) - Whoever doesn’t **bear** his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple. Et quiconque ne **porte** pas sa croix, et ne me suit pas, ne peut être mon disciple. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 14:27) - It **bears** its hallmark. Elle **porte** sa marque. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 880098) - it **bears** the date of entry into storage; le fromage **porte** la date d'entrée en stock; ([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 3710084) ## responsabilité Used about 2 444 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 604 · legal and administrative ≈ 166 · UN documents ≈ 1 673). - The European Central Bank **bears** a great responsibility. La Banque centrale européenne a une grande **responsabilité**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 344496) - reprinting publications and correcting errors for which the Office **bears** responsibility, la réimpression des publications et la correction des erreurs dont l’Office a la **responsabilité**, ([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 4134116) - " the international community, together with nations in Africa, must **bear** its share of responsibility for this tragedy ... < < La communauté internationale doit, aux côtés des nations africaines, assumer sa part de **responsabilité** dans cette tragédie... ([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 11348305) - The European Union **bears** a special responsibility in this regard. L’Union européenne a une **responsabilité** particulière à cet égard. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 779535) - There is no evidence that the proceedings were unduly prolonged or, if they were, which party **bears** the responsibility. Rien ne prouve que la procédure a excédé des délais raisonnables ou, si tel a été le cas, que la **responsabilité** en incombe à telle ou telle partie. ([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 11458341) ## ours Used about 1 286 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 169 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 330 · legal and administrative ≈ 55 · UN documents ≈ 717). - The **bear** is black. L'**ours** est noir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by captcrouton and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5894557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5894557) [\#12635459](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12635459)) - “Hou! the villainous **bear**!” replied Cosette. --Hou! le vilain **ours**! répliqua Cosette. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30953) - He is to me as a **bear** lying in wait, as a lion in hiding. Il a été pour moi un **ours** en embuscade, Un lion dans un lieu caché. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:10) - Many species, including polar **bears**, are also threatened. Bien des espèces, dont les **ours** blancs, sont aussi menacées. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1144143) - Other (such as reindeer, cats, dogs, lions, tigers, **bears**, elephants, camels, zebras, rabbits, hares, deer, antelope, chamois, foxes, mink, and other animals for fur farms Autres (rennes, chats, chiens, lions, tigres, **ours**, éléphants, chameaux, zèbres, lapins, lièvres, cerfs, antilopes, chamois, renards, visons et autres animaux destinés à l’élevage pour leur fourrure, par exemple) ([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 1128214) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - My son made a small **bear** out of pipe cleaners. Mon fils a fait un ourson en fils chenille. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1802691](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1802691) [\#1681270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1681270)) - I had to grin and **bear** it. J'ai dû faire contre mauvaise fortune bon cœur. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8960716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8960716) [\#10733506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10733506)) - Did you find your teddy **bear**? Est-ce que tu as trouvé ton nounours ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#13928020](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13928020) [\#7889442](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7889442)) ## 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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