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Forms: différence, différences. - That's the **difference**. C'est la **différence**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2251265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251265) [\#6318319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6318319)) - There, moreover, lay the **difference** between his tenderness and the tenderness of a mother. Là du reste était la **différence** entre sa tendresse et la tendresse d'une mère. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19400) - They shall teach my people the **difference** between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. Ils enseigneront à mon peuple à distinguer ce qui est saint de ce qui est profane, ils lui feront connaître la **différence** entre ce qui est impur et ce qui est pur. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 44:23) - That is the **difference**. C’est la **différence**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 511347) - **Difference** in constant 2004 prices **Différence** à prix constants de 2004 ([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 2478178) ## entre Used about 2 352 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 233 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 030 · UN documents ≈ 1 085). - There is a world of **difference** between, "somehow being understood" and "using correct English." Il y a un monde **entre** « se faire comprendre » et « avoir un anglais correct. » ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#328473](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328473) [\#136347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136347)) - As regards the path towards that aim, however, there is a **difference** of opinion between the Council and Parliament. Mais on observe une divergence d'opinions **entre** le Conseil et le Parlement quant à la voie à suivre pour atteindre cet objectif. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 480146) - a **difference** in transverse braking pressures on any axle: un écart **entre** les prescriptions de freinage des extrémités de tout essieu: ([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 5472128) - We are discouraged by the fact that it is on this core element that substantive **differences** among the delegations still remain. Malheureusement, c ' est justement sur ce point essentiel que des divergences fondamentales **entre** délégations persistent. ([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 4612363) - The only **difference** of opinion between the Council and the Committee on Transport and Tourism concerns seat arrangements. La seule divergence d’opinion **entre** le Conseil et la commission des transports et du tourisme concerne la manière dont les sièges sont disposés. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 681521) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I know I can make a **difference**. Je sais que je peux changer les choses. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7520299](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7520299) [\#11732943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11732943)) - What's the **difference** between snails and slugs? Comment différencier l'escargot de la limace ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and BilalBouy · checked, community translation · [\#12258307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12258307) [\#9726431](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9726431)) - We have our **differences**. Nous avons nos divergences. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#2545693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2545693) [\#3968079](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3968079)) ## 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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