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La Commission **estime** qu'il est primordial d'observer les règles en matière de concurrence. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1114644) - The Commission, on the other hand, **believes** that this development was in fact foreseeable. La Commission **estime** au contraire que cette évolution était prévisible. ([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 2505287) - It therefore **believes** that those assumptions should be reviewed. Il **estime** donc que ces hypothèses doivent être revues. ([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 21572819) - The rapporteur **believes** that the EIB should have a better overview of the quality of the loans. Le rapporteur **estime** que la BEI doit avoir une meilleure vue d' ensemble sur la qualité des fonds octroyés. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 157737) - **believes** that financial assistance from the Union should be concluded after that date; **estime** que l’assistance financière de l’Union devrait cesser après cette date; ([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 2758320) ## pense Used about 3 801 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 363 · legal and administrative ≈ 89 · UN documents ≈ 3 345). - The child **believes** that the earth is flat. Cet enfant **pense** que la Terre est plate. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and gall · checked, community translation · [\#47456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/47456) [\#763566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/763566)) - The Commission **believes** that we should. La Commission **pense** que oui. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1827928) - The Aeolus Group **believes** that these investments have led to self-inflicted injury. Le groupe Aeolus **pense** que ces investissements ont abouti à un préjudice auto-infligé. ([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 4688800) - Nigeria **believes** that the time to plant such seeds is now. Le Nigéria **pense** qu ' il est désormais temps de planter ces graines. ([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 13177281) - The Commission **believes** that this third report goes further than what was achieved in the interinstitutional agreement. La Commission **pense** que ce troisième rapport va plus loin que ce qui avait été conclu dans l’accord interinstitutionnel. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 568099) ## croit Used about 2 787 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 165 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 363 · UN documents ≈ 2 230). - Tom **believes** in God. Tom **croit** en Dieu. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#4496046](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496046) [\#8084709](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8084709)) - “Perhaps it is a word which she **believes** to be endowed with some magic and secret virtue. C'est peut-être un mot qu'elle **croit** doué de quelque vertu magique et secrète. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3958) - For the Scripture says, “Whoever **believes** in him will not be disappointed.” Quiconque **croit** en lui ne sera point confus. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 10:11) - He **believes** in the market. Il **croit** au marché. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 551196) - Suriname **believes** in promoting the Ottawa Convention and its final goal, which is the worldwide banning of anti-personnel mines. Le Suriname **croit** en la promotion de la Convention et en son but ultime, à savoir l ' interdiction mondiale des mines antipersonnel. ([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 16596932) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I'm the only one who still **believes** in it. Je suis le seul à croire encore à ça. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and madjidoumnia · checked, community translation · [\#13638985](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13638985) [\#13624468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13624468)) - He who **believes** and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned. Celui qui croira et qui sera baptisé sera sauvé, mais celui qui ne croira pas sera condamné. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 16:16) - For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who **believes**. car Christ est la fin de la loi, pour la justification de tous ceux qui croient. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 10:4) ## 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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