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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#309449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/309449) [\#3204231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3204231)) - 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) - This appropriation **covers** expenditure relating to: Ce crédit **couvre** les dépenses concernant: ([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 3443358) - The report **covers** the period from February 2006 to 10 January 2007. Il **couvre** la période allant de février 2006 au 10 janvier 2007. ([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 16705621) ## porte Used about 6 074 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 34 · legal and administrative ≈ 374 · UN documents ≈ 5 667). - The report we have adopted today **covers** these guidelines in general terms, and has therefore won my support. Le rapport que nous avons adopté aujourd'hui **porte** sur ces lignes directrices en général et a donc gagné mon soutien. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1377962) - The judgment **covers** in total: 愦灭※ offences. Le jugement **porte** au total sur: 愦灭※ infraction(s). ([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 1430267) - The project **covers** all areas. Ce projet **porte** sur l ' ensemble des domaines. ([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 22292214) - In order to achieve that objective, it **covers** a time-frame extending before and after accession. Pour atteindre cet objectif, le protocole no 8 **porte** sur des périodes tant avant qu'après l’adhésion de la Pologne à l’UE. ([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 1372039) - The report **covers** the period from 1 August 2013 to 31 July 2014. Il **porte** sur la période du 1er août 2013 au 31 juillet 2014. ([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 29960368) ## période Used about 1 579 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 34 · UN documents ≈ 1 545). - An unconstitutional amnesty law still **covers** the period from 1973 to 1978! Une loi d'amnistie décrétée en violation du droit international pour la **période** de 1973 à 1978, est toujours en vigueur actuellement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1610975) - a The pre-2007 period **covers** 2001 to 2006. a **Période** comprise entre 2001 et 2006. ([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 23671624) - The document **covers** the period 2002 to 2005, and sets out priority actions to be carried out in order to promote the poverty reduction process. Ce document a défini, pour la **période** 2002 à 2005, les actions prioritaires à mettre en œuvre pour amorcer le processus de réduction de la pauvreté. ([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 14836373) - 2. The report takes into account the guidelines laid down by the Human Rights Committee in November 2010 and **covers** a twenty-one year period, from 1991 to 2012. 2. Ce rapport tient compte des directives établies en novembre 2010 par le Comité des droits de l ' homme et s ' étend sur une **période** de 21 années, soit de 1991 à 2012. ([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 27650059) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - When he felt the cold wind on his face, he slipped under the **covers**. Quand il sentit le vent froid sur son visage, il se faufila entre les couvertures. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Maxence · checked, community translation · [\#13823791](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13823791) [\#7696392](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7696392)) - It's best to put **covers** on paperbacks. C'est mieux de couvrir les livres de poche. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#542976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/542976) [\#1736790](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1736790)) - Water **covers** about 70% of the earth. L'eau recouvre environ 70% de la surface de la Terre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#680770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/680770) [\#779540](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/779540)) ## 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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