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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#11612775](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11612775) [\#10460729](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10460729)) - This congregation had sent out branches throughout all the Catholic **countries** of Europe. Cette congrégation avait poussé des rameaux dans tous les **pays** catholiques de l'Europe. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10362) - He will also stretch out his hand on the **countries**. The land of Egypt won’t escape. Il étendra sa main sur divers **pays**, et le pays d’Égypte n’échappera point. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 11:42) - Sweden was one of these **countries**. La Suède était l'un de ces **pays**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1272744) - ACP Protocol signatory **countries** **Pays** signataires du Protocole ACP ([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 1880614) ## développement Used about 1 682 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 682). - It is not acceptable for some **countries** to engage in so-called regularisation of their illegal immigrants and thereby qualify them for free movement to other Member States. Pendant des décennies, nous n’avons pas eu l’occasion d’avoir un **développement** économique normal. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 839791) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I will sow them among the peoples. They will remember me in far **countries**. They will live with their children and will return. Je les disperserai parmi les peuples, Et au loin ils se souviendront de moi; Ils vivront avec leurs enfants, et ils reviendront. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 10:9) - “At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the **countries**, and will overflow and pass through. Au temps de la fin, le roi du midi se heurtera contre lui. Et le roi du septentrion fondra sur lui comme une tempête, avec des chars et des cavaliers, et avec de nombreux navires; il s’avancera dans les terres, se répandra comme un torrent et débordera. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 11:40) - "Well, uncle, we are going to resume the northern route, and to pass under the north **countries** of Europe--under Sweden, Russia, Siberia: who knows where?--instead of burrowing under the deserts of Africa, or perhaps the waves of the Atlantic; and that is all I want to know." —Mais nous allons reprendre la route du nord, passer sous les contrées septentrionales de l'Europe, la Suède, la Russie, la Sibérie, que sais-je! au lieu de nous enfoncer sous les déserts de l'Afrique ou les flots de l'Océan, et je ne veux pas en savoir davantage! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3594) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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