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Des **civils** ont été tués. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#804374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804374) [\#4237041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4237041)) - Israeli **civilians** and children are being killed. Des **civils** et des enfants israéliens meurent. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 190180) - **Civilian** oversight of security forces Contrôle **civil** des forces de sécurité ([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 1356695) - Role of the **civilian** police Rôle de la police **civile** ([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 8323410) - Some **civilians** were killed. Quelques **civils** ont été tués. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#804374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804374) [\#12886485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12886485)) ## forces Used about 1 352 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 352). - Military offensives by Government forces, clashes among rebel factions and intertribal clashes continued to cause mass displacements of **civilians** in Darfur. Military offensives by Government **forces**, clashes among rebel factions and intertribal clashes continued to cause mass displacements of civilians in Darfur. ([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 22171262) ## population Used about 670 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 27 · legal and administrative ≈ 643). - Low level military exercise flights must be forbidden where there is a danger to **civilians**. Les vols d'exercice militaires à basse altitude doivent être interdits en cas de risque pour la **population**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1812019) - Addounia TV has incited violence against the **civilian** population in Syria. Addounia TV a incité à la violence contre la **population** civile en Syrie. ([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 2795265) - Senior decision-maker in the regime on repression of **civilian** population. Haut responsable du régime responsable de la répression à l'encontre de la **population** civile. ([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 2915236) - Involved in violence against the **civilian** population as part of the Shabiha militia. Impliqué dans les violences contre la **population** civile en tant que membre de la milice Shabiha. ([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 4173786) - Head of Syrian Air Force Intelligence; involved in violence against the **civilian** population. Chef du service de renseignement de l'armée de l'air syrienne; impliqué dans la répression contre la **population** civile. ([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 2785957) ## attaques Used about 27 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 27). - However, on page 31, the report mentions the impact on **civilians** of rocket and mortar attacks by Palestinian armed groups on southern Israel. Or, à la page 31, l'auteur mentionne l'impact des **attaques** au lance-roquettes et au mortier orchestrées par des groupes armés palestiniens. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1346747) ## 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 well to disguise one’s self as a **civilian** from time to time.” Cela vaut bien qu'on se déguise en pékin de temps en temps. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15078) - Terrorism represents one of the greatest challenges our societies face and is unacceptable, because of the indiscriminate violence that characterises it, and which particularly affects the **civilian** population. Le terrorisme constitue un des défis les plus importants pour nos sociétés, la violence aveugle qui le caractérise et qui touche les populations est intolérable. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 91909) - In 1993 Burundi's Hutu President was assassinated and within a month over 100,000 **civilians** were killed. En 1993, le président du Burundi d' origine hutue a été assassiné, et en un mois, plus de 100 000 personnes ont été massacrées. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 219009) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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