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Forms: courant, courants. - The **current** is very strong. Le **courant** est très fort. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3118272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3118272) [\#12468502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12468502)) - I gazed painfully upon the luminous **current** growing weaker and weaker in the wire coil. Je regardai le **courant** lumineux s'amoindrir dans le serpentin de l'appareil. ([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 2316) - It consists of diverse **currents** of opinion. Il se compose de différents **courants** d’opinion. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 613923) - Non-**current** financial assets Actifs financiers non **courants** ([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 5312630) - (d) Fast water **currents** and/or cross **currents**. d) Des **courants** rapides et/ou contraires; ([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 11213649) ## actuelle Used about 45 995 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 4 953 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 089 · UN documents ≈ 37 916). Forms: actuel, actuelle. - Who is the **current** president? Qui est le président **actuel** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#13629708](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13629708) [\#13629704](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13629704)) - Nothing is changing with respect to the **current** position. Rien ne change par rapport à la situation **actuelle**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1177774) - Indeed, the **current** market position of Phoenix does not seem to reflect its true potential. La position **actuelle** de Phoenix ne semble pas refléter son véritable potentiel. ([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 855442) - Its **current** mandate runs through September 2011. Son mandat **actuel** arrivera à expiration en septembre 2011. ([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 21833781) - What's the **current** situation? Quelle est la situation **actuelle** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TheNightAvl and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8160782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8160782) [\#10984376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10984376)) ## situation Used about 5 078 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 396 · legal and administrative ≈ 221 · UN documents ≈ 4 461). - That is what led to the **current** situation. Voilà la réalité qui débouche sur la **situation** que nous connaissons aujourd'hui. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1732801) - **Current** activity status (CAS); **situation** au regard de l'activité du moment (CAS); ([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 4326866) - We still have to see significant change in the **current** situation as regards maternal mortality. La **situation** en ce qui concerne la mortalité liée à la maternité doit encore beaucoup évoluer. ([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 1222951) - It is as if we stand midstream at a place where two **currents**, formed of immigrants and refugees, often combine. On est en train de patauger dans une **situation** où on mélange souvent les immigrés et 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 116741) - He submits that the **current** political situation in Azerbaijan was particularly tense due to the parliamentary elections of 6 November 2005. Il fait valoir que la **situation** politique en Azerbaïdjan est particulièrement tendue en raison de l ' approche des élections législatives du 6 novembre 2005. ([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 16430980) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Chinese newspapers are supervised by the government who maintains the right to change content to match the **current** party line. Les journaux chinois sont supervisés par le gouvernement qui garde le droit d'en modifier le contenu pour l'aligner avec la ligne courante du parti. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Chrikaru and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2128900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2128900) [\#2130314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2130314)) - Circumcision is a **current** practice in many cultures. La circoncision est une pratique courante dans de nombreuses cultures. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12269308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12269308) [\#11429214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11429214)) - We cannot offer a further price reduction under the **current** circumstances. Nous ne pouvons concéder de réduction de prix supplémentaire dans les conditions actuelles. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#239611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239611) [\#2321942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2321942)) ## 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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