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Forms: central, centrale, centrales. - Germany is in **Central** Europe. L'Allemagne est située en Europe **centrale**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Cupie · checked, community translation · [\#4703070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4703070) [\#4705589](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4705589)) - In populous cities, especially in capitals, there existed no single, **central**, regulating power. Dans les cités populeuses, dans les capitales surtout, pas de pouvoir **central**, un, régulateur. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6999) - Eurozone (2007) - European **Central** Bank (2006) (debate) Zone euro (2007) - Banque **centrale** européenne (2006) (débat) ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 951248) - Project covering **Central** America Projet concernant l’Amérique **centrale** ([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 1426295) - District **Central** Police Station District **Central** Police Station ([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 20214055) ## centrafricaine Used about 17 574 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 565 · UN documents ≈ 16 006). - Tom lives in Bangui, the capital of the **Central** African Republic. Tom habite à Bangui, la capitale de la République **Centrafricaine**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rafik · checked, community translation · [\#11802553](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11802553) [\#8754750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8754750)) - Place of birth: a) Ndele, Bamingui-Bangoran, **Central** African Republic; b) Haraze Mangueigne, Chad Lieu de naissance: a) Ndélé, Bamingui-Bangoran, République **centrafricaine**; b) Haraze Mangueigne, Tchad ([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 4944657) - Chad, the **Central** African Republic and the subregion Tchad/République **centrafricaine**/sous-Région ([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 17741904) - The **Central** African Republic is called "Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka" in Sango. La République **Centrafricaine** s'appelle " Ködörösêse tî Bêafrîka " en sango. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#1814878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1814878) [\#7957221](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7957221)) - implementing Article 17(1) of Regulation (EU) No 224/2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in the **Central** African Republic mettant en œuvre l'article 17, paragraphe 1, du règlement (UE) no 224/2014 concernant des mesures restrictives eu égard à la situation en République **centrafricaine** ([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 4343675) ## banques Used about 3 201 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 201). Forms: banque, banques. - The list of financial institutions informed would include banks, trust companies, loan companies, cooperative credit societies and **centrals**, credit unions, caisses populaires, securities dealers, entities authorized to provide portfolio management and investment counseling, life insurance companies, property and casualty insurance companies and fraternal benefit societies. La liste des institutions financières qui sont ainsi tenues informées comprend notamment les **banques**, les sociétés de fiducie et de prêt, les sociétés et caisses de crédit coopératif, les coopératives de crédit, les caisses populaires, les courtiers en valeurs mobilières, les entités autorisées à exercer les fonctions de gestionnaire de portefeuille et de conseiller en placement, les sociétés d ' assurance-vie, les compagnies d ' assurances des dommages aux biens et risques divers et les sociétés de secours mutuel. ([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 11077273) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The Seine flows through the **central** part of the Paris Basin. Au centre du Bassin parisien coule la Seine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Christophe and Christophe · checked, community translation · [\#1724003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1724003) [\#1724005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1724005)) - The potato is native to the highlands of **Central** and South America. La pomme de terre est originaire des hauts plateaux d'Amérique latine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and minti · checked, community translation · [\#53185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/53185) [\#407573](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/407573)) - He lived in **central** London. Il vivait dans le centre de Londres. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sejb and letsgolanguages · checked, community translation · [\#6489635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6489635) [\#10109247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10109247)) ## 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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