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Forms: couverture, couvre, couvrir. - He refuses to **cover** himself. Il refuse de se **couvrir**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Serg\_K1ng and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · [\#12240802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12240802) [\#12011361](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12011361)) - He was not even conscious that he was very cold, since he had taken off his coat to **cover** her. Il ne sentait même pas qu'il avait très froid, ayant quitté sa redingote pour l'en **couvrir**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10000) - Hatred stirs up strife, but love **covers** all wrongs. La haine excite des querelles, Mais l’amour **couvre** toutes les fautes. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 10:12) - The document **covers** many areas. Le document **couvre** plusieurs domaines. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1350766) - Such expenditure may **cover**, inter alia: Ces dépenses peuvent **couvrir** notamment: ([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 1227605) ## dépenses Used about 4 705 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 328 · UN documents ≈ 4 378). - Accordingly, it is appropriate to allocate a Community financial contribution to **cover** the expenditure of that programme for 2008 by Portugal. Il convient dès lors d’accorder une participation financière de la Communauté aux **dépenses** liées à ce programme du Portugal pour 2008. ([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 1346210) - This **covers** electricity, water and fuel oil at the Palais and its annexes. Il s’agit des **dépenses** d’eau et d’électricité et de l’achat de fioul pour le chauffage du Palais et de ses dépendances. ([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 5791750) - Payments are based on claims processed during the year to **cover** field staff medical costs. Les paiements correspondent aux demandes de remboursement traités dans l ' année concernant les **dépenses** de santé des fonctionnaires en poste hors siège. ([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 11619078) - Table B-6 also **covers** expenditures on operational activities of the United Nations system in the least developed countries. Le tableau B-6 contient des données sur les **dépenses** au titre des activités opérationnelles du système des Nations Unies dans les pays les moins avancés. ([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 10608820) - 103. The provision of $25,399,600 would **cover** salaries, common staff costs and staff assessment for the 132 continuing posts and 3 proposed new posts. Le montant prévu (25 399 600 dollars) représente les traitements, les **dépenses** communes de personnel et les contributions du personnel relatifs à 132 postes existants et 3 nouveaux postes. ([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 19751900) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Be sure to **cover** your tracks. Assure-toi d'effacer tes traces. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#9737544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9737544) [\#14049788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14049788)) - Take **cover** from the rain. Mets-toi à l'abri de la pluie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#11922149](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11922149) [\#6061648](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6061648)) - **Cover** your eye like this please. Couvrez vos yeux comme ça, s'il vous plaît. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9853877](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9853877) [\#9869951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9869951)) ## 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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