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Nous devons **mieux** faire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1893832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1893832) [\#2061671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2061671)) - **Better**, is it not?” **Mieux**, n'est-ce pas? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30186) - **Better** is open rebuke than hidden love. **Mieux** vaut une réprimande ouverte Qu’une amitié cachée. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 27:5) - We need to do **better** and do more! Nous devons faire **mieux** et davantage! ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 741212) - If possible, for **better** identification. Si possible, pour **mieux** l'identifier. ([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 4435379) ## meilleure Used about 19 826 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 244 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 6 398 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 725 · UN documents ≈ 10 454). - My idea is **better**. Mon idée est **meilleure**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and pititnatole · checked, community translation · [\#5374933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5374933) [\#7099894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7099894)) - “‘Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep a **better** table than you do.’ «--Monsieur le curé du bon Dieu, tout ceci est encore bien trop bon pour moi, mais je dois dire que les rouliers qui n'ont pas voulu me laisser manger avec eux font **meilleure** chère que vous. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1755) - Are you **better** than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea? Es-tu **meilleure** que No-Amon, Qui était assise au milieu des fleuves, Entourée par les eaux, Ayant la mer pour rempart, La mer pour murailles? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NAH 3:8) - Why is the situation in Iceland **better**? Pourquoi la situation est-elle **meilleure** en Islande ? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 396086) - b. Long-term stability less (**better**) than 1 × 10–11/month; and b. stabilité à long terme inférieure à (**meilleure** que) 1 × 10–11/mois; et ([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 2619064) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You'd **better** go home now. Tu devrais retourner à la maison maintenant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#31422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/31422) [\#883081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/883081)) - I like meat **better** than fish. Je préfère la viande au poisson. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#256893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/256893) [\#6645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6645)) - The new server should have much **better** performance. Le nouveau serveur devrait être beaucoup plus performant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#838777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/838777) [\#380121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/380121)) ## 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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