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Forms: ville, villes. - I love your **city**. J'aime votre **ville**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and alexmarcelo · checked, community translation · [\#2131113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2131113) [\#1908921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1908921)) - The **city** seemed to be aroused. La **ville** semblait s'être émue. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7287) - Now in the morning, as he returned to the **city**, he was hungry. Le matin, en retournant à la **ville**, il eut faim. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 21:18) - Let us imagine a **city** with no police. Imaginons une **ville** sans policiers. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 933559) - Huadu District of Guangzhou **City**, district de Huadu de la **ville** de Guangzhou, ([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 4618178) ## city Used about 10 801 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 81 · legal and administrative ≈ 576 · UN documents ≈ 10 144). - In Vilnius we do not have a **City**, so our actions are different. À Vilnius, nous n'avons pas de **City**, et nos actions sont donc différentes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1142425) - and Myodaw (**City**) Club Ltd. and Myodaw (**City**) Club Ltd ([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 1992216) - Association of the Bar of the **City** of New York Association of the Bar of the **City** of New York ([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 29625926) - Its false closure in Sun **City** (South Africa) with a partial agreement means that clashes and, in the extreme, massacres such as that in Kisangani, are continuing. Sa fausse clôture à Sun **City** (Afrique du Sud) sur un accord partiel implique la continuation des affrontements et, dans des cas extrêmes, de massacres comme celui de Kisangani. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 341440) - Guangxi Province Beiliu **City** Laotian Ceramics Co., Ltd Guangxi Province Beiliu **City** Laotian Ceramics Co., Ltd. ([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 4992002) ## grandes Used about 873 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 41 · legal and administrative ≈ 52 · UN documents ≈ 780). - Large quantities of polonium, a highly radioactive substance from the Russian nuclear **cities**, are misappropriated, transported all over Europe, and no one knows how it can have happened. De **grandes** quantités de cette substance hautement radioactive sont détournées des complexes nucléaires russes, transportées partout en Europe, et nul ne sait comment cela a pu se faire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 898440) - The monitoring system should include at least wastewaters from large **cities** with over 150000 inhabitants, preferably with a minimum sampling frequency of two samples per week. Il devrait s’appliquer au moins aux eaux usées des **grandes** agglomérations de plus de 150000 habitants et prévoir, de préférence, une fréquence minimale d’échantillonnage de deux échantillons par semaine. ([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 5349862) - The headquarters of major telecommunications companies are also situated in the International **City**. Les **grandes** compagnies de télécommunication ont elles aussi leur siège dans la Cité internationale. ([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 2584878) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I have a friend at **City** Hall. J'ai un ami à la mairie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1970114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1970114) [\#2137652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2137652)) - Passengers are packed in like sardines on **city** buses. Les passagers sont serrés comme des sardines dans les autobus urbains. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#246119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/246119) [\#429712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/429712)) - The flats were built by the **city** council. Les appartements ont été construits par la municipalité. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#10055250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10055250) [\#12037868](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12037868)) ## 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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