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Forms: contiennent, contient. - Does it **contain** butter? **Contient**-elle du beurre ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6588601](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6588601) [\#8679851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8679851)) - The second **contains** the question of salary. Le deuxième **contient** la question du salaire. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18277) - “The Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It **contains** much. Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l’Éternel: Tu boiras la coupe de ta sœur, Tu la boiras large et profonde; Elle te rendra un objet de risée et de moquerie; Elle **contient** beaucoup. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 23:32) - The report does **contain** many good ideas. Il **contient** certes de nombreuses bonnes idées. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 32223) - Columns 220-223 **contain** whole numbers Les colonnes 220-223 **contiennent** des nombres entiers. ([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 1204366) ## contenir Used about 9 563 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 43 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 401 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 403 · UN documents ≈ 6 711). - He could not **contain** his wrath. Il ne put **contenir** son courroux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7831894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7831894) [\#13086707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13086707)) - “’Tis a great deal of iron,” said the king, “to **contain** the light of a spirit.” --Voilà bien du fer, dit le roi, pour **contenir** la légèreté d'un esprit! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7446) - But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t **contain** you; how much less this house that I have built! Mais quoi! Dieu habiterait-il véritablement sur la terre? Voici, les cieux et les cieux des cieux ne peuvent te **contenir**: combien moins cette maison que je t’ai bâtie! ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 8:27) - What should a trade agreement like South Korea's really **contain**, then? Que devrait donc réellement **contenir** un accord commercial tel que celui sur le point d'être conclu avec la Corée du Sud? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1276063) - It may **contain** hydrocyanic acid. Il peut **contenir** de l'acide hydrocyanique. ([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 4341990) ## dispositions Used about 3 489 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 134 · UN documents ≈ 3 355). - As regards financial provisions, the White Paper does not **contain** any. **Dispositions** financières : le Livre blanc n'en prévoyait pas. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 190001) - 112. The Danish Criminal Code does **contain** a specific provision concerning the sexual exploitation of persons with mental disabilities. 112. Le Code pénal danois ne comporte pas de **dispositions** spécifiques concernant l ' exploitation sexuelle des personnes handicapées. ([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 29549536) - In addition, this first phase agreement **contains** some provisions that clearly benefit the Community. En outre, ce premier accord renferme certaines **dispositions** avantageuses pour la Communauté. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 717951) - This publication will **contain** summaries of key provisions, relevant final clauses and status of the treaties being highlighted at Focus 2007. Ce document contiendra les résumés des **dispositions** principales, des clauses finales pertinentes et l ' état des traités retenus pour le Thème 2007. ([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 17602366) - 8. In order to eliminate all ambiguities, the arms trade treaty should **contain** a list of conventional arms subject to the treaty ' s provisions. Afin de lever toute ambiguïté, le traité sur le commerce des armes devrait comporter une liste des armes classiques auxquelles s ' appliqueraient ses **dispositions**. ([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 16360665) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Does this dish **contain** meat? Y a-t-il de la viande dans ce plat ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by megamanenm and martin9 · checked, community translation · [\#12198857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12198857) [\#1424566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1424566)) - Does it **contain** butter? Y a-t-il du beurre ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6588601](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6588601) [\#8679853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8679853)) - All dictionaries **contain** errors. Tous les dictionnaires comportent des erreurs. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Vanilla and Malape · checked, community translation · [\#3317044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3317044) [\#3314824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3314824)) ## 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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