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Forms: conseil, conseils. - The **council** agreed on it. Le **conseil** y a donné son accord. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2268076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2268076) [\#4949193](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4949193)) - He re-entered the **council**-chamber. Il rentra dans la chambre du **conseil**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5920) - Then Festus, when he had conferred with the **council**, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.” Alors Festus, après avoir délibéré avec le **conseil**, répondit: Tu en as appelé à César; tu iras devant César. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 25:12) - I would insist, where is the **Council**? J'insiste: où est le **Conseil**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 923264) - THE **COUNCIL** OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, LE **CONSEIL** DE L'UNION EUROPÉENNE, ([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 1172475) ## européen Used about 2 061 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 061). - It was the **Council** which increased that amount to 900 million ECU. That is the truth. Pour l'année en cours, la Commission et le Parlement **européen** se sont mis d'accord sur un chiffre: 600 millions d'écus. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1609548) - To cap it all, she wants more money transferred from the national Refugee **Councils** to their EU equivalent. Elle souhaite, de surcroît, que les pouvoirs nationaux transfèrent davantage de moyens financiers au Fonds **européen** pour les réfugiés. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 33852) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You should run for city **council**. Tu devrais te présenter aux élections municipales. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#4834911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4834911) [\#12037860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12037860)) - Tom plans to run for city **council**. Tom a l'intention de se présenter aux élections municipales. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#9373813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9373813) [\#12037864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12037864)) - Tom is going to run for city **council**. Tom va se présenter aux élections municipales. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#9384447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9384447) [\#12037867](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12037867)) ## 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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