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Forms: contact, contacter, contacts. - I'll try to **contact** Tom. J'essaierai de **contacter** Tom. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and pititnatole · checked, community translation · [\#4666648](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4666648) [\#5490122](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5490122)) - To place the infinity here below in **contact**, by the medium of thought, with the infinity on high, is called praying. Mettre par la pensée l'infini d'en bas en **contact** avec l'infini d'en haut, cela s'appelle prier. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11039) - After all, I live there and have **contacts** there. Je vis sur place, j'y ai des **contacts**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 420153) - EUH070 Toxic by eye **contact** EUH070 Toxique par **contact** oculaire ([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 2541650) - **Contacts** with civil society **Contacts** avec la société 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 16935118) ## avec Used about 3 834 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 176 · legal and administrative ≈ 306 · UN documents ≈ 3 348). - I fell asleep with my **contacts** in. Je me suis endormi **avec** mes lentilles. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#54813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/54813) [\#11378976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11378976)) - The Union must have a radical change of attitude if it wants to regain **contact** with its citizens. Mes chers collègues, il faut que l'Union change radicalement d'attitude si elle veut renouer **avec** les citoyens. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 359549) - For each supplier, the official company name(s) including its **contact** details \[5\] Pour chaque fournisseur, le ou les noms officiels de l'entreprise **avec** ses coordonnées \[5\] ([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 3539767) - Noting with satisfaction the intensification of **contacts** between New Caledonia and neighbouring countries of the South Pacific region, Notant **avec** satisfaction l ' intensification des relations entre la Nouvelle-Calédonie et ses voisins de la région du Pacifique Sud, ([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 9926741) - As commercial and cultural **contacts** between East and West developed, Arab and Persian traders began calling on China along the Silk Road in increasing numbers. **Avec** le développement des échanges commerciaux et culturels entre l'Est et l'Ouest, un nombre croissant de marchands arabes et persans commencèrent à se rendre en Chine en empruntant la route de la Soie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eastasiastudent and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#898048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/898048) [\#898247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/898247)) ## entre Used about 2 626 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 88 · legal and administrative ≈ 306 · UN documents ≈ 2 232). - This must be stopped, of course, and it is an issue that should be broached in the Union's **contacts** with Mercosur. Il faut naturellement y mettre un terme. Ce sujet doit être abordé lors d'un entretien approfondi **entre** l'Union et le Mercosur. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1697329) - costs for social **contacts** between members of staff, les frais relatifs aux relations sociales **entre** les membres du personnel, ([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 2755411) - Missions and **contacts** take place regularly between UNESCO and the SADC secretariat. Il y a de fréquentes missions et des relations suivies **entre** l ' UNESCO et le secrétariat de la SADC. ([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 1568512) - It is important that there is **contact** with the police and judicial authorities in order to facilitate cooperation in the Member States in relation to war crimes. Il est important qu'existe une coopération **entre** les autorités judiciaires et policières afin de faciliter la coopération des États membres dans le domaine des crimes de guerre. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 308179) - Social **contacts** between members of staff and other welfare expenditure Relations sociales **entre** les membres du personnel et autres interventions sociales ([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 4134466) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Shy people avoid eye **contact** and blush easily. Le gens timides ont le regard fuyant et rougissent facilement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6211249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6211249) [\#6536201](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6536201)) - Please **contact** me later. Recontacte-moi plus tard, s'il te plaît. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#240128](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/240128) [\#8691](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8691)) - In case of a medical emergency, would you like us to **contact** someone? En cas d'urgence médicale, souhaites-tu que nous contactions quelqu'un ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9849531](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9849531) [\#9889380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9889380)) ## 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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