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Forms: distinction, distinctions. - That **distinction** was well-deserved. Cette **distinction** a été fort méritée. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2267821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2267821) [\#4902693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4902693)) - It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, and always preserving the **distinction** between revolt, the form, and insurrection, the foundation. Il pourra nous arriver, dans cette mise en scène d'un événement redoutable, de dire parfois l'émeute, mais seulement pour qualifier les faits de surface, et en maintenant toujours la **distinction** entre la forme émeute et le fond insurrection. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22958) - even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no **distinction**, justice de Dieu par la foi en Jésus-Christ pour tous ceux qui croient. Il n’y a point de **distinction**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 3:22) - We would like to make a clear **distinction**. Nous souhaitons établir une **distinction** bien claire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 514303) - Full-time/part-time **distinction** **Distinction** temps plein/temps partiel ([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 656769) ## entre Used about 1 698 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 117 · legal and administrative ≈ 89 · UN documents ≈ 1 486). - When he cried, ‘Sinite parvulos,’ he made no **distinction** between the little children. Quand il s'écriait: Sinite parvulos..., il ne distinguait pas **entre** les petits enfants. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 862) - He made no **distinction** between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. il n’a fait aucune différence **entre** nous et eux, ayant purifié leurs cœurs par la foi. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 15:9) - I cannot make **distinctions** between the political groups. Je ne puis faire de discriminations **entre** les groupes politiques. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1837188) - In this context, a **distinction** has to be made between existing aid and new aid. Dans ce cadre, il convient de distinguer **entre** une aide existante et une aide nouvelle. ([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 2767888) - It shuns race, colour and gender as a basis of **distinction** among fellowmen. Il interdit la discrimination **entre** les individus fondée sur la race, la couleur de la peau et le sexe. ([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 1772290) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I can make a **distinction** between good and bad. Je peux distinguer le bien et le mal. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Kujakuchan · checked, community translation · [\#249707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249707) [\#376143](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/376143)) - He makes no **distinction** between right and wrong. Il n'a aucun sens du bien et du mal. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ag12x and Ag12x · checked, community translation · [\#8938639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8938639) [\#8938643](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8938643)) - Bernard of Chartres used to say that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical **distinction**, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size. Bernard de Chartres avait l'habitude de dire que nous sommes comme des nains sur les épaules de géants, de telle manière que nous pouvons voir davantage qu'eux, et des choses à plus grande distance, non pas en vertu d'une quelconque acuité visuelle de notre part, ou une quelconque particularité physique, mais parce que nous sommes portés haut et soulevés par leur taille géante. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1310598](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1310598) [\#1310959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1310959)) ## 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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