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Forms: appel, appeler, appelle, appels. - I **call** him Mike. Je l'**appelle** Mike. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#260894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/260894) [\#127759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/127759)) - He was missing at roll-**call**. Il avait manqué à l'**appel**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1949) - This persuasion is not from him who **calls** you. Cette influence ne vient pas de celui qui vous **appelle**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 5:8) - The Commission **calls** this harmonization. La Commission **appelle** cela harmonisation. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1842159) - Calculation of margin **calls** Calcul des **appels** de marge ([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 2322554) ## demande Used about 29 028 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 517 · legal and administrative ≈ 709 · UN documents ≈ 24 802). - I **call** on the House to vote for this request. Je **demande** donc à l'Assemblée d'approuver l'urgence. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 176789) - **calls** for an annual report on the progress made to be submitted to Parliament; **demande** que le Parlement soit tenu informé des progrès réalisés par le biais d’un rapport annuel; ([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 2758336) - 3. **Calls** upon all States: 3. **Demande** à tous les États: ([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 27190896) - I **call** on President Van Rompuy to heed this message. Je **demande** au président Van Rompuy d'entendre ce message. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1419294) - **calls** on the Centre to keep the discharge authority informed of the use of those contributions; **demande** au Centre d’informer l’autorité de décharge de l’utilisation de ces contributions; ([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 2759949) ## je Used about 15 370 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 229 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 36 · parliamentary ≈ 1 876 · UN documents ≈ 13 228). - I gave him a **call**. **Je** lui ai téléphoné. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#260470](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/260470) [\#130148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130148)) - “I shall **call** her Catherine,” she said. --**Je** l'appellerai Catherine, dit-elle. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8825) - In the day of my trouble I will **call** on you, for you will answer me. **Je** t’invoque au jour de ma détresse, Car tu m’exauces. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 86:7) - I note the **call** on the Commission to be consistent with existing legislation. **Je** prends acte de votre insistance pour que le plan d’action de la Commission soit cohérent avec la législation existante. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 821096) - I **call** on him, and appeal to him to be brief. **Je** la lui donne, et le prie d ' être bref. ([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 190219) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You had better make sure that he is at home before you **call** on him. Tu devrais t'assurer qu'il est chez lui avant de lui rendre visite. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#321082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/321082) [\#558502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/558502)) - Let me **call** you back. Permettez-moi de vous rappeler ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1860636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1860636) [\#2053774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2053774)) - He went above and beyond the **call** of duty. Il a été bien au-delà de son devoir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#539157](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/539157) [\#540219](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/540219)) ## 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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