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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13200338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13200338) [\#13200109](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13200109)) - Trafficking of human **beings** Traite des êtres **humains** ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 77244) - Dignity of human **beings** Dignité des êtres **humains** ([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 15188864) - Why do human **beings** smile? Pourquoi les **humains** sourient-ils ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#13200341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13200341) [\#13200112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13200112)) - Children are human **beings**; they are people with rights. Les enfants sont des êtres **humains**, ce sont des sujets de droit. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2037322) ## traite Used about 20 783 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 576 · UN documents ≈ 20 207). - I am therefore in favour of these reports **being** dealt with. Je demande donc qu'on **traite** de ces rapports. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2041396) - Pursue its active participation in the international cooperation efforts to fight the trafficking against human **beings** (Belarus); 100.59 Continuer de participer activement aux efforts de coopération internationale visant à lutter contre la **traite** des personnes (Bélarus); ([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 22150632) - According to the same law, special care is provided to minors-victims of trafficking in human **beings** or smuggling of migrants who are unaccompanied minors. Aux termes de ladite loi, les mineurs non accompagnés victimes de la **traite** ou du trafic de migrants bénéficient d ' une prise en charge spéciale. ([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 27941709) - Thirty persons entered the programme for the support and protection of the victims of trafficking in human **beings** in 2013 and were granted comprehensive assistance. Trente personnes ont pris part au programme de soutien et de protection des victimes de la **traite** en 2013 et ont reçu toute l ' aide appropriée. ([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 29452010) - The Republic of Moldova noted with satisfaction Estonia ' s commitment to taking additional measures to prevent, combat and sanction trafficking in human **beings**. La République de Moldova a noté avec satisfaction la volonté de l ' Estonie de prendre des mesures supplémentaires pour prévenir, combattre et réprimer la **traite** des personnes. ([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 25679122) ## êtres Used about 14 001 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 550 · literary ≈ 48 · parliamentary ≈ 576 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 827). - All **beings** are beautiful. Tous les **êtres** sont beaux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11234597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11234597) [\#11234606](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11234606)) - Such were these two **beings**. Tels étaient ces deux **êtres**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8137) - The Member States pointed out that animals are sentient **beings** that must be treated well. Les États membres ont souligné que les animaux étaient des **êtres** sensibles devant être bien traités. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 199958) - Trafficking in human **beings** Traite des **êtres** humains ([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 283955) - All human **beings** are mortal. Tous les **êtres** humains sont mortels. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Elliv · checked, community translation · [\#51711](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/51711) [\#11913](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11913)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The pain she suffered while **being** tortured was unimaginable. La douleur qu'elle endura en étant torturée fut inimaginable. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1985100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1985100) [\#1985945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1985945)) - I'm proud of my father **being** a good cook. Je suis fier que mon père soit un bon cuisinier. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#261526](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/261526) [\#127869](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/127869)) - She accused her of **being** late. Elle l'a accusée d'être en retard. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qwertydiy and qwertydiy · checked, community translation · [\#13753426](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13753426) [\#13753515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13753515)) ## 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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