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Forms: distance, distances. - Love overcomes any **distance**. L'amour vainc toute **distance**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by helloroto and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#9772397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9772397) [\#1472408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1472408)) - It seemed to him that he was already at an immense **distance** from life. Il lui semblait qu'il était déjà à une **distance** immense de la vie. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24664) - As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a **distance**. Comme il entrait dans un village, dix lépreux vinrent à sa rencontre. Se tenant à **distance**, ils élevèrent la voix, et dirent: ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 17:12) - In many regions, there are long **distances** to be travelled. Dans de nombreuses régions, il faut parcourir de longues **distances**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 811321) - visibility and sight **distances**; visibilité et **distances** de visibilité; ([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 4873044) ## loin Used about 735 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 68 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 5 · UN documents ≈ 648). - He watched from a **distance**. Il regarda de **loin**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#294123](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/294123) [\#131652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131652)) - “Have you come from a great **distance**?” went on the man. --Venez-vous de **loin**? reprit le garçon. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5414) - They seized him and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a **distance**. Après avoir saisi Jésus, ils l’emmenèrent, et le conduisirent dans la maison du souverain sacrificateur. Pierre suivait de **loin**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 22:54) - They had travelled long **distances**, both literally and figuratively, to reach the present session. Elles sont venues de **loin**, au propre comme au figuré, pour être présente à cette session. ([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 24376602) - He stared into the **distance**. Il regarda au **loin**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and martin9 · checked, community translation · [\#2301562](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2301562) [\#1499562](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1499562)) ## longues Used about 216 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 216). - Women often have to walk long **distances** to fetch water in communities where access to clean water is lacking. Dans les communautés dépourvues de tout accès à une eau salubre, les femmes doivent souvent effectuer de **longues** heures de marche pour aller chercher de l ' eau. ([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 20292023) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - We can see the island in the **distance**. Nous pouvons voir l'île dans le lointain. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#25800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25800) [\#1450317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1450317)) - I live within spitting **distance** of the underground station. J’habite à deux pas du métro. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jismith1989 and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#3549085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3549085) [\#3543806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3543806)) - I live within walking **distance** of school. D'où j'habite, on peut se rendre à pied à l'école. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#21599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/21599) [\#951678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/951678)) ## 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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