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J'aime les vieux **bâtiments**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tjwhale and Talwit · checked, community translation · [\#11035323](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11035323) [\#7269515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7269515)) - “Is that the way **buildings** are treated nowadays?” --Est-ce qu'on arrange les **bâtiments** comme ça à présent! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17951) - Listed **buildings** present particular problems. Les **bâtiments** classés posent des problèmes particuliers. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1461901) - For warehouses and industrial **buildings** Entrepôts et **bâtiments** industriels ([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 236325) - (e) **Buildings** Management Service; e) Service des **bâtiments**; ([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 3451426) ## immeubles Used about 2 489 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 102 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 132 · UN documents ≈ 1 240). - I don't like **buildings**. Je n'aime pas les **immeubles**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cntrational and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#1121367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1121367) [\#1722202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1722202)) - Today nearly 100 million people live in prefabricated **buildings**. Aujourd'hui, près de 100 millions de personnes vivent dans des **immeubles** préfabriqués. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1248620) - Security and surveillance of **buildings** Sécurité et surveillance des **immeubles** ([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 5060768) - Residential **buildings** in Bab Amr were shelled by tanks and anti-aircraft guns. À Bab Amr, des **immeubles** d ' habitation ont été pilonnés par des chars et des forces antiaériennes. ([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 25702263) - The **buildings** look so tiny. Les **immeubles** ont l'air si minuscules. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#239073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239073) [\#126647](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/126647)) ## constructions Used about 326 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 68 · legal and administrative ≈ 252). - I don't like **buildings**. Je n'aime pas les **constructions**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cntrational and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1121367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1121367) [\#1121491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1121491)) - Thirty years ago, this quarter was disappearing under the erasing process of new **buildings**. Il y a trente ans, ce quartier disparaissait sous la rature des **constructions** nouvelles. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9767) - As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of **buildings**!” Lorsque Jésus sortit du temple, un de ses disciples lui dit: Maître, regarde quelles pierres, et quelles **constructions**! ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 13:1) - Women consider the smooth flow of the working day more important than the monumental outward appearance of **buildings**. Pour les femmes, l'utilisation pratique est plus importante que les **constructions** monumentales. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1865554) - Prefabricated **buildings** of wood **Constructions** préfabriquées en bois ([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 946540) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Great **buildings**, like great mountains, are the work of centuries. Les grands édifices, comme les grandes montagnes, sont l’ouvrage des siècles. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#3416353](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3416353) [\#3381951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3381951)) - There are many famous old **buildings** in Kyoto. Il y a plusieurs édifices anciens célèbres à Kyoto. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#19314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19314) [\#1897285](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1897285)) - Wooden **buildings** catch fire easily. Les édifices en bois prennent facilement feu. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#329648](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/329648) [\#236639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/236639)) ## 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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