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Forms: caractère, caractères. - He is a man of **character**. C’est un homme de **caractère**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zmoo · checked, community translation · [\#300124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/300124) [\#132710](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132710)) - The Professor mused a few moments over this series of **characters**; then raising his spectacles he pronounced: Le professeur considéra pendant quelques instants cette série de **caractères**; puis il dit en relevant ses lunettes: ([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 112) - These issues also illustrate the nature and **character** of the environmental problems. Ces questions illustrent aussi la nature et le **caractère** des problèmes d'environnement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 187263) - Up to 3 numeric **characters**. Jusqu'à 3 **caractères** numériques. ([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 4918280) - Cross-cutting and multidisciplinary **characters** **Caractère** intersectoriel et multidisciplinaire ([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 8206337) ## gras Used about 1 493 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 493). - Table 1.2, amend to read: (amended text in bold **characters**) Tableau 1.2, lire: (texte modifié en **gras**) ([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 20932772) - The modifications to the existing text of the Regulation are marked in bold **characters**. Les modifications apportées au texte actuel du Règlement apparaissent en **gras**. ([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 14432828) - The modifications to the current text of the Regulation are marked in bold **characters**. Les modifications apportées au texte actuel du Règlement sont indiquées en caractère **gras**. ([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 15598123) - The modifications to the current text of the Regulation are marked in bold **characters**. Les modifications qu ' il est proposé d ' apporter au texte actuel du Règlement apparaissent en caractère **gras**. ([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 19186505) - The modifications to the existing text of the Regulations are marked in bold **characters**. A.1. Les modifications qu ' il est proposé d ' apporter au texte existant du Règlement sont indiquées en caractère **gras**. ([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 22829011) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The actor made his **character** sound like an idiot to make people laugh. Le comédien bêtifie son personnage pour faire rire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13808017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13808017) [\#12752824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12752824)) - He is an understudy for that **character**. Il est la doublure de ce personnage. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by XY and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8273210](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8273210) [\#9704443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9704443)) - To think one is a **character** is very common in France. Se croire un personnage est fort commun en France. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1366412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1366412) [\#920908](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/920908)) ## 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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