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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#254670](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/254670) [\#1561163](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1561163)) - If not, I have some **copies** here that you can have. Dans le cas contraire, j'en ai quelques **exemplaires**, venez les chercher. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 490421) - design and testing of questionnaires (including **copies** of all final questionnaires), questionnaires: conception et tests (y compris **exemplaires** de l'ensemble des questionnaires définitifs), ([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 4326801) - 100 **copies** of polling station lists 100 **exemplaires** des listes des bureaux de vote ([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 13099290) - How many **copies** did you sell? Combien d'**exemplaires** avez-vous vendu ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#10465112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10465112) [\#9667071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9667071)) ## copies Used about 16 292 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 118 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 809 · UN documents ≈ 14 343). Forms: copie, copies. - Can I make **copies**? Puis-je faire des **copies** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1839444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1839444) [\#1849811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1849811)) - The battle of Marengo **copies** the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. La bataille de Marengo **copie** la bataille de Pydna; le Tolbiac de Clovis et l'Austerlitz de Napoléon se ressemblent comme deux gouttes de sang. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14433) - The **copies** were numbered and were collected in again afterwards. Les **copies** étaient numérotées et ont été reprises. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 378317) - Certified **copies** of the Certificate **Copies** certifiées conformes du certificat ([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 2654992) - Access to and **copies** of information Accès à l ' information et aux **copies** ([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 18848194) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The Bible sells more than one million **copies** every year. Il se vend plus d'un million de Bibles chaque année. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#271921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/271921) [\#392614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/392614)) - It was necessary therefore that the **copies** of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. Il était donc nécessaire, puisque les images des choses qui sont dans les cieux devaient être purifiées de cette manière, que les choses célestes elles-mêmes le fussent par des sacrifices plus excellents que ceux-là. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 9:23) - Also, a few days ago I received **copies** of Belgian Royal Decrees implementing the legislation. Je viens de recevoir aussi, il y a quelques jours, les arrêtés royaux belges qui précisent l'application de la loi. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1739654) ## 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. 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