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Forms: colonial, coloniale, coloniales, coloniaux. - In the 15th century, Portugal was a major **colonial** power. Au XVe siècle, le Portugal était une grande puissance **coloniale**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and alexmarcelo · checked, community translation · [\#11477828](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11477828) [\#964515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/964515)) - This is known as the '**colonial** reflex'. C'est ce qu'on appelle le "réflexe **colonial**". ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1513339) - **Colonial** scleractinians on rocky outcrops Scléractiniaires **coloniaux** sur affleurements rocheux ([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 4116176) - to **Colonial** Countries and Peoples aux pays et aux peuples **coloniaux** ([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 28466352) - In the 15th century, Portugal was a great **colonial** power. Au XVe siècle, le Portugal était une grande puissance **coloniale**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ\_Saidez and alexmarcelo · checked, community translation · [\#9584798](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9584798) [\#964515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/964515)) ## octroi Used about 1 282 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 282). - Granting of Independence to **Colonial** Countries sur l ' **octroi** de l ' indépendance aux pays ([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 11604446) - Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to **Colonial** Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations Application de la Déclaration sur l ' **octroi** de l ' indépendance aux pays ([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 8035851) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He wrote the article "Artificial Intelligence in Martian **Colonial** Life Support Systems." Il a écrit l'article : « L'intelligence artificielle dans les systèmes de support de vie dans les colonies martiennes. » ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#1469340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1469340) [\#10466134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10466134)) - For two centuries, in the **colonial** era, we exploited or destroyed it. Pendant deux siècles, nous l'avons exploitée ou détruite, à l'époque des colonies. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1763039) - An ex-British colony, Burma has suffered a traumatic post-**colonial** period, which has been fertile ground for the firm establishment of a military junta. Ancienne colonie britannique, ce pays a souffert d'une période postcoloniale, terrain propice à l'instauration d'une junte militaire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 962959) ## 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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