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Sauf si les **présidents** de groupe en jugent autrement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 209283) - **Chair** of the Administrative Board **Président** du conseil d’administration ([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 5139913) - The **Chair** made a statement. Le **Président** fait une déclaration. ([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 21247058) - Ladies and gentlemen, **Chairs**, please listen carefully. Mesdames et Messieurs, **Présidents**, veuillez écouter attentivement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1404395) - The Board of Appeal shall designate its **Chair**. La commission de recours désigne son **président**. ([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 4963883) ## coprésidents Used about 19 683 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 100 · legal and administrative ≈ 770 · UN documents ≈ 18 813). - A new meeting of the Co-**Chairs** is scheduled to take place in Tokyo on 30 May. Une nouvelle réunion des **coprésidents** est prévue à Tokyo le 30 mai. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 818586) - The Decision, done in duplicate, shall be signed by the Co-**chairs**. La présente décision, établie en double exemplaire, est signée par les **coprésidents**. ([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 1682530) - J. Report by the co-**chairs** of the preparatory segment and Rapport des **Coprésidents** de la réunion préparatoire ([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 8507358) - The Commission has also been instrumental in raising the profile of the co-**chairs**. La Commission a également joué un rôle déterminant pour améliorer l’image des **coprésidents**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 762753) - This decision, done in duplicate, shall be signed by the Co-**Chairs**. La présente décision, établie en double exemplaire, est signée par les **coprésidents**. ([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 32983) ## chaises Used about 1 535 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 141 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 33 · legal and administrative ≈ 363 · UN documents ≈ 990). - I like these **chairs**. J'aime ces **chaises**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2377480](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2377480) [\#5342718](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5342718)) - “Here are the two **chairs**.” --Voici les deux **chaises**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17132) - Does it mean that if you are selling Chippendale **chairs** they are quoted as price per leg, for example? Mettons, par exemple, que vous vendiez des **chaises** Chippendale; seront-elles vendues sur la base du prix par pied? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1680692) - Electric **chairs** for the purpose of execution of human beings **Chaises** électriques conçues pour l’exécution d’êtres humains ([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 2472543) - (b) The contracting out of food services and the acquisition of cutlery, tables and **chairs**; b) Externalisation du service de restauration et achat de couverts, de tables et de **chaises**; ([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 22297482) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Don't rock in the **chair**. It's going to break. Ne te balance pas sur la chaise. Elle va se casser. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2261551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2261551) [\#9009740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9009740)) - What would it take to have this **chair** repaired? Qu'exigerait la réparation de cette chaise ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#522252](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/522252) [\#1741346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1741346)) - The wooden **chair** is expensive. La chaise en bois est chère. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#463030](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/463030) [\#12004052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12004052)) ## 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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