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J'aime ce **dessin**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8834029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8834029) [\#8845850](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8845850)) - As an agent working for the British, Hans had supplied the illegal **drawings**. En sa qualité d’agent travaillant pour les Britanniques, Hans avait fourni les **dessins** illégaux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 834205) - Photographs and/or **drawings**: Photos et/ou **dessins**: ([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 3613063) - \* Painting, **drawing** and sculpting competitions. \* Peinture, **dessin** et sculpture. ([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 4946218) - She is **drawing** a picture. Elle fait un **dessin**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#312967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/312967) [\#934567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/934567)) ## description Used about 319 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 59 · UN documents ≈ 260). - **Drawings** of reactor vessel showing location of core and openings in vessel; description of method of fuel handling in vessel. Croquis de la cuve du réacteur indiquant l'emplacement du cœur et les orifices de la cuve; **description** de la méthode de manipulation du combustible dans la cuve. ([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 648130) - 1.2.4.5.17.3. Description and **drawings** of installation: 1.2.4.5.17.3 **Description** et schéma de l ' installation : ([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 15751255) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Spring is **drawing** near. Le printemps est en train d'arriver. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mervert1 · checked, community translation · [\#266901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266901) [\#3312312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3312312)) - The month is **drawing** to an end. Le mois prend fin. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#238855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238855) [\#7676395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7676395)) - **Drawing** on historical sources, she wrote several exciting novels. En puisant dans des sources historiques, elle a écrit plusieurs romans passionnants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10240052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10240052) [\#10699793](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10699793)) ## 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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