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By style: everyday 2 348 · literary 221 · biblical 1 000 · parliamentary 17 430 · legal and administrative 101 065 · UN documents 62 899. ## réductions Used about 29 337 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 27 372 · UN documents ≈ 1 966). - Write-offs/write-**downs** Abandons/**réductions** de créances ([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 3229833) - 4. World Bank buy-**downs** 4. **Réductions** de dettes par la Banque mondiale ([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 23584428) - Representatives from the European Community agreed to show flexibility in the timing and percentage reduction of step-**downs**, particularly the first and the last. Les représentants de la Communauté européenne ont convenu d ' assouplir le calendrier et les pourcentages fixés pour les **réductions** par paliers, notamment pour les première et dernière réductions. ([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 14475182) - Representatives from the European Community agreed to show flexibility in the timing and percentage reduction of step-**downs**, particularly the first and the last. Les représentants de la Communauté européenne ont convenu d ' assouplir le calendrier et les pourcentages fixés pour les **réductions** par palliers, notamment pour les première et dernière réductions. ([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 12884178) - Write-offs/write-**downs** of loans Abandons/**réductions** de créances ([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 1788076) ## hauts Used about 10 043 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 405 · parliamentary ≈ 3 087 · UN documents ≈ 6 552). - I've had my ups and **downs**. J'ai eu des **hauts** et des bas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8559716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8559716) [\#13270565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13270565)) - From 1996 until today, the TENs have undoubtedly had their ups and **downs**. Depuis 1996 jusqu'à maintenant, les RTE ont indubitablement connu des **hauts** et des bas. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 500669) - In Djibouti, we have had our ups and **downs**. À Djibouti, nous avons eu des **hauts** et des bas. ([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 4601859) - Life has its ups and **downs**. La vie a ses **hauts** et ses bas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#483603](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/483603) [\#551898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/551898)) - And today the ups and **downs** of life often make reality much nicer than literature. Et aujourd’hui, les **hauts** et les bas de la vie rendent souvent la réalité bien plus belle que la littérature. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 596528) ## bas Used about 240 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 182). - Nobody noticed that the picture was hung upside **down**. Personne ne remarqua que le tableau était suspendu la tête en **bas**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#276586](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/276586) [\#129252](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129252)) - "**Down** there?" repeated my uncle. —Là-**bas**?» répond mon oncle. ([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 3028) - Today I would like to give you the perspective from **down** on the plains. Aujourd'hui, j'aimerais vous donner la perspective de ceux qui vivent tout en **bas**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1124961) - "Lower **down** the density will still increase." —Plus **bas**, cette densité s'accroîtra encore. ([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 2189) - “**Down** with the beadles! **down** with the mace-bearers!” «À **bas** les bedeaux! à bas les massiers! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 159) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - She turned **down** my offer. Elle refusa mon offre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#314360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/314360) [\#334354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/334354)) - Go upstairs and bring **down** my trunk. Montez à l'étage et ramenez ma malle. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#72895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/72895) [\#10774258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10774258)) - The constant criticism grinds him **down**. Les critiques incessantes l'accablent. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by timmartin and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11431604](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11431604) [\#11431607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11431607)) ## 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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