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([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) - Involved in repressive actions against **civilians**. Participe à la répression menée contre des **civils**. ([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 2656392) - Canadian efforts to protect **civilians** Efforts déployés par le Canada pour protéger les **civils** ([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 14624741) - 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)) ## victimes Used about 1 990 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 21 · UN documents ≈ 1 970). - In the time of the First World War just 10% of the war’s casualties were **civilians**. À l’époque de la Première guerre mondiale, seuls 10% des **victimes** de guerre étaient civiles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 556219) - Five people were injured, and all the victims were **civilians**. Cinq personnes ont été blessées, toutes les **victimes** étaient civiles. ([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 15984421) - Statement on the killing of **civilians** in Burundi issued on 3 September 1999 by the Presidency of the European Union Déclaration de la présidence de l ' Union européenne sur les récentes **victimes** civiles au Burundi, publiée le 3 septembre 1999 ([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 5698183) ## forces Used about 985 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 985). - 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) ## attaques Used about 42 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 42). - 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) - The savage Serbian attacks on **civilians** are beyond doubt, as are the human rights violations and Belgrade's efforts to muzzle the press. Les **attaques** sauvages serbes contre les populations civiles, la violation des droits de l'homme, les efforts de Belgrade pour museler la presse ne font aucun doute. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1904295) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - 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) - More **civilians** have died in Darfur than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Il y a eu davantage de pertes civiles au Darfour qu’en Iraq et en Afghanistan réunis. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 858092) - The number of extremist groups is increasing, and they are threatening the lives of **civilians**. Les groupes extrémistes se multiplient et menacent la vie des populations civiles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1478097) ## 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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