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J'emploie un **ordinateur**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lindoula and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3630762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3630762) [\#3631613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3631613)) - His personal **computer** was confiscated. Son **ordinateur** personnel a été confisqué. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 218314) - Maintenance of **computer** peripherals Maintenance de périphériques d'**ordinateur** ([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 1495530) - **Computer** with e-mail@ **Ordinateur** avec courrier électronique@ ([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 23834976) - Tom has two **computers**. Tom a deux **ordinateurs**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Joutsentaika · checked, community translation · [\#3250964](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3250964) [\#6009740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6009740)) ## informatiques Used about 9 819 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 278 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 415 · UN documents ≈ 8 104). Forms: informatique, informatiques. - Can we replace our psychopaths with **computer** programs? Peut-on remplacer nos psychopathes par des programmes **informatiques** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and aperitero · checked, community translation · [\#6601965](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6601965) [\#6602311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6602311)) - So there must be some problem with the **computer**. Il doit par conséquent y avoir un problème **informatique**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1355352) - **computer** and related services services **informatiques** et services connexes ([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 166425) - 1 LL **Computer** Information Systems Assistant 1 AL : assistant (systèmes **informatiques**) ([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 27253439) - Early **computer** programs were written on punch cards. Les premiers programmes **informatiques** étaient inscrits sur des cartes perforées. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7269724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7269724) [\#12630753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12630753)) ## matériel Used about 371 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 101 · UN documents ≈ 270). - a. Weapon sights, bombing **computers**, gun laying equipment and weapon control systems; a. viseurs d’armement, calculateurs de bombardement, **matériel** de pointage et systèmes destinés au contrôle des armements; ([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 3902100) - 7. The estimate of $35,700 relates to acquisition and replacement of office automation equipment and **computer** software. 7.32 Les ressources prévues (35 700 dollars) doivent permettre d ' acheter et de remplacer du **matériel** de bureautique et du logiciel. ([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 514635) - The relevant product market of the beneficiary is graphic arts pre-press processing equipment, in particular **computer**-to-plate (CtP) processors. Le marché des produits du bénéficiaire est celui du **matériel** de traitement prépresse des arts graphiques, en particulier des transformateurs d’écriture à plat. ([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 1384026) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - In the twentieth century, chess enabled **computer** scientists to create intelligent machines. Au vingtième siècle, les échecs ont permis aux informaticiens de créer des machines intelligentes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10102642](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10102642) [\#10102649](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10102649)) - The **computer** database of fingerprints is an infringement of individual freedom. Le fichage informatisé des empreintes digitales est une atteinte à la liberté individuelle. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2035857) - But the fair allocation of E-mail addresses will not eliminate the problem of democracy in relation to **computer** networks. Mais la distribution générale d'adresses électroniques ne supprimera pas le problème qu'il y a entre la démocratie et les réseaux de télécommunications. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1739542) ## 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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