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Forms: chiffre, chiffres. - These **figures** are inaccurate. Ces **chiffres** sont erronés. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6862493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6862493) [\#6861030](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6861030)) - "Yes, or **figures** are of no use." —Oui, ou les **chiffres** ne sont plus les chiffres!» ([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 1621) - These are horrific **figures**. Ces **chiffres** sont effroyables. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 771457) - Report **figure** from C 72.00; r230; c040. Indiquer le **chiffre** de la cellule C 72.00; r230; c040. ([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 5174462) - a **Figures** apply to the European part of the country. a Les **chiffres** concernent la partie européenne du pays. ([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 26290059) ## figure Used about 30 378 times in the texts (literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 65 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 399 · UN documents ≈ 26 903). - This **figure** was coming towards him. Cette **figure** venait de son côté. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8920) - lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself a carved image in the form of any **figure**, the likeness of male or female, de peur que vous ne vous corrompiez et que vous ne vous fassiez une image taillée, une représentation de quelque idole, la **figure** d’un homme ou d’une femme, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 4:16) - Why does a former hero of a nation, the father **figure** of a struggle for independence, now allow the use of violence simply to underpin his own authority? Pourquoi l'ancien héros du peuple, la **figure** emblématique de la lutte pour l'indépendance, permet-il maintenant le recours à la violence uniquement pour renforcer son propre pouvoir ? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 69937) - **Figure** 23: Full flow opacimeter **Figure** 23 - Opacimètre à flux total LS CL LD CL EP OPL ([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 5422900) - **Figure** 11, the note, amend to read: **Figure** 11, note, modifier comme suit: ([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 24791037) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I just can't **figure** it out. Je n'arrive simplement pas à le comprendre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1553468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1553468) [\#1804506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1804506)) - Tom is a very controversial **figure**. Tom est un personnage très controversé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#9670268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9670268) [\#9671498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9671498)) - I can't **figure** out what he means. Je n'arrive pas à comprendre ce qu'il veut dire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#38379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/38379) [\#10900962](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10900962)) ## 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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