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La politique des soins de santé ne **relève** pas des compétences de l’UE. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541585) - The goods concerned **fall** under CN code 35051050. La marchandise concernée **relève** du code NC 35051050. ([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 720156) - The development of methods **falls** under the second action: methods of data collection, processing and organization. L ' élaboration de méthodes **relève** de la seconde : méthodes de collecte, traitement, organisation de données. ([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 6449136) - With regard to the issue of complaints, this **falls** to Mrs Wallström. En ce qui concerne les plaintes, cela **relève** de la compétence de Mme Wallström. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 401304) - The following comments assume that there is a contract, which **falls** within the scope of the Convention. Les commentaires qui suivent supposent l ' existence d ' un contrat qui **relève** du champ d ' application de la Convention. ([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 13307245) ## chute Used about 2 373 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 494 · legal and administrative ≈ 94 · UN documents ≈ 1 728). - Pride comes before the **fall**. L'orgueil précède la **chute**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12916444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12916444) [\#831510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/831510)) - What a **fall**, my benefactor! Quelle **chute**, mon bienfaiteur! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17207) - The earth trembles at the noise of their **fall**; there is a cry, the noise which is heard in the Red Sea. Au bruit de leur **chute**, la terre tremble; Leur cri se fait entendre jusqu’à la mer Rouge… ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 49:21) - The fate of empires and the **fall** of kings; Le destin des empires et la **chute** des rois; ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 919304) - Parts likely to **fall** off; functionality heavily affected. **Chute** probable de pièces; fonctionnement gravement affecté. ([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 3209641) ## tomber Used about 2 056 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 170 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 79 · parliamentary ≈ 185 · legal and administrative ≈ 565 · UN documents ≈ 1 037). Forms: tombe, tomber. - I let it **fall**. Je l'ai laissé **tomber**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2238535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2238535) [\#5920438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5920438)) - Quasimodo watched him **fall**. Quasimodo le regarda **tomber**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 9032) - You pushed me back hard, to make me **fall**, but the LORD helped me. Tu me poussais pour me faire **tomber**; Mais l’Éternel m’a secouru. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 118:13) - After all, he puts his signature to it in this position, so I believe that this should **fall** under openness. Il y utilise tout de même sa signature, ce qui - à mon sens - **tombe** dans le domaine public. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 273455) - Person walks on surface, slips and **falls** La personne marche sur la surface, glisse et **tombe**. ([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 5668024) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom is about to **fall** asleep. Tom est sur le point de s'endormir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#5687190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5687190) [\#5687272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5687272)) - I'm really tired, but I can't **fall** asleep. Je suis très fatigué, mais je n'arrive pas à m'endormir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#9730098](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9730098) [\#12351719](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12351719)) - "Why did the monkey **fall** out of the tree?" "I don't know, Tom. Why?" "Because it was dead." « Pourquoi le singe est-il tombé de l'arbre ? » « Je ne sais pas, Tom. Pourquoi ? » « Parce qu'il était mort. » ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12734996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12734996) [\#13570999](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13570999)) ## 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. 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