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C'est une **copie**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#42520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42520) [\#864347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/864347)) - It drags along, a lamentable workshop mendicant, from **copy** to **copy**. Elle se traîne, lamentable mendiante d'atelier, de **copie** en copie. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2727) - He wrote there on the stones a **copy** of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. Et là Josué écrivit sur les pierres une **copie** de la loi que Moïse avait écrite devant les enfants d’Israël. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 8:32) - I can show you a **copy** if you wish. Je tiens la **copie** à votre disposition. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2431) - uncertified **copy** or extract: **copie** ou extrait non certifié conforme: ([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 4339540) ## exemplaire Used about 20 103 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 77 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 707 · UN documents ≈ 18 294). Forms: exemplaire, exemplaires. - Do you have a **copy**? En avez-vous un **exemplaire** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2130904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2130904) [\#3598454](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3598454)) - “My **copy** of Horace has been stolen.” --On m'a volé mon **exemplaire** d'Horatius. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4223) - President Roca, your **copy** awaits! Président Roca, votre **exemplaire** vous attend! ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 490423) - **Copy** No 4 shall be kept by the importer. L'**exemplaire** no 4 est conservé par l'importateur. ([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 3645692) - 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) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Put some paper in the **copy** machine. Mettez du papier dans la photocopieuse. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8216099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8216099) [\#9749025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9749025)) - His report was a **copy**-and-paste of another. Son rapport a été copié-collé à partir d'un autre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais2 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#775507](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/775507) [\#775505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/775505)) - Don't envy. **Copy**. N'envie pas. Imite. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#10060043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10060043) [\#12478152](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12478152)) ## 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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