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Nous voulons toutes des **changements**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4496487](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496487) [\#4867297](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4867297)) - Otto Liedenbrock had no mischief in him, I willingly allow that; but unless he very considerably **changes** as he grows older, at the end he will be a most original character. Otto Lidenbrock n'était pas un méchant homme, j'en conviens volontiers; mais, à moins de **changements** improbables, il mourra dans la peau d'un terrible original. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 25) - The **changes** in the regional development funds are important. Les **changements** au niveau du Fonds de développement régional sont importants. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1355058) - Resistance to temperature **changes** Résistance aux **changements** de température ([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 5424077) - **Changes** in frequency and intensity of events **Changements** de fréquence et d ' intensité des phénomènes ([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 30297301) ## modifications Used about 36 721 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 684 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 091 · UN documents ≈ 25 929). Forms: modification, modifications. - I made a few **changes**. J'ai effectué quelques **modifications**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1887562](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1887562) [\#2053669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2053669)) - I knew quite well that according to the best received theories the mineral covering of the globe is never at absolute rest; the **changes** brought about by the chemical decomposition of its component parts, the agitation caused by great liquid torrents, and the magnetic currents, are continually tending to disturb it--even when living beings upon its surface may fancy that all is quiet below. Je savais bien que, d'après les théories les plus acceptées, l'écorce minérale du globe, n'est jamais dans un état de repos absolu; les **modifications** amenées par la décomposition des matières internes, l'agitation provenant des grands courants liquides, l'action du magnétisme, tendent à l'ébranler incessamment, alors même que les êtres disséminés à sa surface ne soupçonnent pas son agitation. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3860) - It is expected that these **changes** will take a few months more. On escompte que ces **modifications** prendront quelques mois supplémentaires. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 182119) - **Changes** to scheduled maintenance **Modification** des opérations d'entretien programmé ([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 5440252) - (a) Before 1/1/1983 **changes** 8.41 a/ a) Avant les **modifications** entrées en vigueur le 1er janvier 1983 ([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 692503) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - It is said that time **changes** everything. On dit que le temps change tout. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11912509](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11912509) [\#11912547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11912547)) - He **changes** his opinions one after another. Il change d'avis comme de chemise. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and cheeheerow · checked, community translation · [\#532954](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/532954) [\#395978](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/395978)) - I don't understand why the vocabulary of adults **changes** so drastically when they speak to a child. Je ne comprends pas pourquoi les adultes changent drastiquement de vocabulaire quand ils parlent à un enfant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Rockaround · checked, community translation · [\#6820509](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6820509) [\#6819917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6819917)) ## 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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