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Forms: exprime, exprimer. - **Express** your idea clearly. **Exprime** ton idée clairement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#17169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17169) [\#9017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9017)) - The gamin **expresses** Paris, and Paris **expresses** the world. Le gamin **exprime** Paris, et Paris exprime le monde. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12793) - The modelling of the CFSP **expresses** that reality very well. Le modelage de la PESC **exprime** bien cette réalité. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1728996) - **Express** the result as a percentage of the sample. **Exprimer** le résultat sous forme de pourcentage de l'échantillon. ([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 1802234) - The council **expresses** the pupils ' views and raises matters for discussion. Le conseil **exprime** les vues des élèves et soulève des questions aux fins de discussion. ([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 4949335) ## je Used about 4 823 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 398 · UN documents ≈ 3 420). - I didn't know how to **express** myself. **Je** fus à court de mots. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#257291](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/257291) [\#6563](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6563)) - I made a movement intended to **express** resignation. **Je** fis le geste d'un homme résigné à tout. ([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 3325) - I think Amendment No 53 **expresses** this very appropriately. **Je** pense que l'amendement 53 est une formulation très appropriée à ce sujet. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 425081) - I had not planned to speak today, but I would like to **express** a few points. **Je** n ' avais pas l ' intention de prendre la parole aujourd ' hui mais je voudrais faire quelques observations. ([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 20492161) - I don't know how to **express** my thanks. **Je** ne sais pas comment vous remercier. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#21049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/21049) [\#9379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9379)) ## express Used about 3 164 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 100 · legal and administrative ≈ 482 · UN documents ≈ 2 565). - Are there any **express** trains? Y a-t-il des trains **express** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#19607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19607) [\#575040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/575040)) - Not even the Orient **Express** has room to manoeuvre in there. Pas même l’Orient **Express** n’a de place pour manœuvrer à l’intérieur de ce tunnel. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 629446) - A Postal and **express** consignments A Envois postaux et **express** ([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 1066503) - This nevertheless raised the question of why there was no **express** option regarding evacuation by the security forces. This nevertheless raised the question of why there was no **express** option regarding evacuation by the security forces. ([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 9331171) - Please send it by **express** mail. S'il te plaît, envoie-le par courrier **express**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#274520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274520) [\#2058844](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2058844)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The two poems **express** human suffering. Les deux poèmes expriment la souffrance humaine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kebukebu and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#556757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/556757) [\#459949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/459949)) - **Express** yourself as clearly as possible. Exprimez-vous le plus clairement possible. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cindrogriza and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#817970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/817970) [\#12686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12686)) - New technologies are being developed that will be able to control how genes **express** themselves. De nouvelles technologies sont développées qui permettront de contrôler la manière dont les gènes s'expriment. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#956236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/956236) [\#956282](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/956282)) ## 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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