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Forms: commande, commandement. - Who's in **command** of this unit? Qui **commande** cette unité ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2483374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2483374) [\#9576576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9576576)) - Enjolras issued this **command**: Enjolras jeta ce **commandement**: ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26053) - You are my friends if you do whatever I **command** you. Vous êtes mes amis, si vous faites ce que je vous **commande**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 15:14) - History **commands** us and we have commitments to do this. L'histoire nous le **commande**, nos engagements nous y obligent. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 290892) - Regional Operations **Command**-Sittwe **Commandement** régional des opérations (ROC) - Sittwe ([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 1175003) ## ordres Used about 938 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 13 · legal and administrative ≈ 130 · UN documents ≈ 775). - Your wish is my **command**. Vos désirs sont des **ordres**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1526410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1526410) [\#11955043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11955043)) - The king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give a **command** concerning you.” Le roi dit à la femme: Va dans ta maison. Je donnerai des **ordres** à ton sujet. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 14:8) - Your wish is my **command**! Vos désirs sont des **ordres**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1887561) - give **commands** to the person at helm including checking the person’s required knowledge and skills donner des **ordres** à la personne à la barre, y compris vérifier les connaissances et les compétences requises de la personne; ([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 5130069) - Speed and torque **commands** shall be issued at a frequency of at least 5 Hz. Les **ordres** de régime et de couple doivent être émis à une fréquence d ' au moins 5 Hz. ([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 24678186) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - One must learn to obey to know how to **command**. Il faut apprendre à obéir pour savoir commander. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6581051](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6581051) [\#6560033](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6560033)) - This is a **command**, not truly a descriptive sentence. Ceci est une instruction, pas réellement une phrase descriptive. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11951617](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11951617) [\#11949707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11949707)) - They had a good **command** of French. Ils avaient une bonne maîtrise du français. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#306011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/306011) [\#786614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/786614)) ## 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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