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Ma femme est **chinoise**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and chtof · checked, community translation · [\#250912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/250912) [\#433243](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/433243)) - It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking **Chinese**. Il lui sembla que Courfeyrac parlait **chinois**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22676) - Even they are **Chinese**. Même elles sont **chinoises**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 797589) - Cooperating **Chinese** exporting producers Producteurs-exportateurs **chinois** ayant coopéré ([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 2120717) - Thursday, 29 October, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: **Chinese** Jeudi 29 octobre de 10 à 13 heures : **chinois** ([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 21253897) ## chine Used about 17 942 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 221 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 465 · UN documents ≈ 16 248). Forms: chine, chinese. - You study **Chinese** history. Vous étudiez l'Histoire de la **Chine**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fishda and jonr · checked, community translation · [\#20114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20114) [\#1588606](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1588606)) - The **Chinese** seas are usually boisterous, subject to terrible gales of wind, and especially during the equinoxes; and it was now early November. Elles sont généralement mauvaises, ces mers de la **Chine**, exposées à des coups de vent terribles, principalement pendant les équinoxes, et on était encore aux premiers jours de novembre. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1630) - The now isolated **Chinese** regime is becoming ever more brutal. Le régime actuellement isolé de la **Chine** est de plus en plus brutal. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1655963) - **Chinese** cabbages/pe-tsai Choux de **Chine**/Petsaï ([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 3917225) - www.un.org/**chinese**/sc www.un.org/**chinese**/sc ([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 24961588) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I study **Chinese** in Beijing. J'étudie le mandarin, à Pékin. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eastasiastudent and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#844673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/844673) [\#3600205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3600205)) - The problem is not only that we do not know the Mandarin **Chinese** language, but that they know the English and European languages much better - this is an enormous asymmetry. Nous sommes non seulement confrontés au problème que constitue l'ignorance du mandarin, mais également au fait qu'ils connaissent l'anglais et les langues européennes nettement mieux que nous. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 950259) - Plums (Damson, greengage, mirabelle, sloe, red date/**Chinese** date/**Chinese** jujube (Ziziphus zizyphus)) Prunes \[prunes de Damas, reines-claudes, mirabelles, prunelles, jujubes communs/jujubes d'Inde (Ziziphus zizyphus)\] ([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 3399203) ## 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. 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