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Forms: classique, classiques. - The UN register for **conventional** weapons should be opened to this category of weapons. Le registre des armes **classiques** des Nations unies devrait inclure cette catégorie d'armes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 470539) - **Conventional** PCR based on Minsavage et al. PCR **classique** selon Minsavage et al., 1994. ([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 5247175) - on the Use of Certain **Conventional** Weapons de certaines armes **classiques** qui peuvent ([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 22344515) - In the energy industry we have tended to go the way of **conventional** thermodynamics. Dans le domaine de l' énergie, nous avons en quelque sorte suivi la voie de la thermodynamique **classique**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 174065) - Applicable to **conventional** air/fuel fired furnaces. Applicable aux fours **classiques** en aérocombustion ([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 2492906) ## conventionnel Used about 5 913 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 428 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 800 · UN documents ≈ 3 681). Forms: conventionnel, conventionnelles, conventionnels. - Mary has very **conventional** ideas. Marie a des idées très **conventionnelles**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ\_Saidez and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#10369593](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10369593) [\#10369544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10369544)) - It is rather a **conventional** budget. Il s’agit plutôt d’un budget **conventionnel**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 817225) - Russian Imports are **Conventional** Grade Les importations russes sont de type **conventionnel** ([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 3717995) - d = rim diameter **conventional** number (mm) d = chiffre **conventionnel** du diamètre de la jante (en mm) ([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 9852940) - She challenges **conventional** ideas. Elle remet en question les idées **conventionnelles**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12775219](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12775219) [\#13365301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13365301)) ## armes Used about 18 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 18). - in writing. - (SK) Weapons are not **conventional** products. Les **armes** ne sont pas des produits comme les autres. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1003287) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The enemy of the **conventional** wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. L'ennemi de la sagesse conventionnelle ne réside pas dans les idées, mais dans le cours des événements. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6287122](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6287122) [\#8249913](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8249913)) - The women in this film are dressed in a very **conventional** way. Les femmes dans ce film sont habillées de manière très conventionnelle. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1728533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1728533) [\#1300442](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1300442)) - Why are **conventional** language classes so boring? Pourquoi les cours de langues traditionnels sont-ils si ennuyeux ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mrdax and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#934595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/934595) [\#1059109](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1059109)) ## 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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