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Tu ne parles pas **anglais**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by megamanenm and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#2897291](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2897291) [\#2336981](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2336981)) - “Do you know **English**?” --Savez-vous l'**anglais**? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14704) - I quote in **English**: Je cite en **anglais**: ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 457707) - They shall be drawn up in **English**. Ils sont imprimés en **anglais**. ([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 522717) - **English** and French only **Anglais** et français seulement ([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 24669759) ## français Used about 2 724 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 127 · UN documents ≈ 2 595). Forms: français, française. - The wall is hidden on the outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to deal only with a hedge, crossed it, and found the wall both an obstacle and an ambuscade, with the **English** guards behind it, the thirty-eight loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye’s brigade was broken against it. Ce mur est caché au dehors par une grande haie vive; les **Français** arrivèrent, croyant n'avoir affaire qu'à la haie, la franchirent, et trouvèrent ce mur, obstacle et embuscade, les gardes anglaises derrière, les trente-huit meurtrières faisant feu à la fois, un orage de mitraille et de balles; et la brigade Soye s'y brisa. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6844) - (does not concern the **English** language) (Ne concerne pas la version **française**.) ([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 4324968) - 1.6.3.25 The first amendment does not apply to the **English** text. 1.6.3.25 Dans le texte **français**, remplacer " le panneau prescrit " par " la plaque prescrite " , au début. ([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 14410981) - in the **English**-language version, in Article 12(1), in the reference to the species squalus acanthias, the word ‘spurdog’ is replaced by ‘picked dogfish’; Cette modification ne concerne pas la version **française**. ([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 4022645) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I prefer **English** cars to foreign ones. Je préfère les voitures anglaises aux voitures étrangères. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Pharamp · checked, community translation · [\#256619](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/256619) [\#6709](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6709)) - This horseman had pierced the **English** lines. Ce cavalier avait percé les lignes anglaises. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7248) - In that fatal valley, at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now inundated by the masses of the **English**, under the converging fires of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of projectiles, this square fought on. Dans ce vallon funeste, au pied de cette pente gravie par les cuirassiers, inondée maintenant par les masses anglaises, sous les feux convergents de l'artillerie ennemie victorieuse, sous une effroyable densité de projectiles, ce carré luttait. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7392) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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