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Forms: formation, formations. - Today we are going to study the **formation** of the Earth. Aujourd'hui, nous allons étudier la **formation** de la Terre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by quickfitter and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1439111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1439111) [\#1441140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1441140)) - What natural force could have produced such plants, and what must have been the appearance of the earth in the first ages of its **formation**, when, under the action of heat and moisture, the vegetable kingdom alone was developing on its surface? Quelle force naturelle pouvait produire de telles plantes, et quel devait être l'aspect de la terre aux premiers siècles de sa **formation**, quand, sous l'action de la chaleur et de l'humidité, le règne végétal se développait seul à sa surface! ([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 2764) - The **formation** of explosive atmospheres must be prevented. Il convient d'empêcher la **formation** d'atmosphères explosives. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1609607) - **FORMATIONS** OF THE COURT DES **FORMATIONS** DE JUGEMENT ([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 1197018) - Gross domestic capital **formation** **Formation** intérieure brute de capital ([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 2037432) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The Americans wanted to impose the idea that a book or film should be treated like any commercial object, because they understood that alongside the army, diplomacy and trade, there is also cultural war, a battle that they intend to win both for noble reasons — the United States has always opined that its values are universal — and less noble ones: the **formation** of minds is the best way to sell off American products. Consider that the cinema represents the top rank of American exports, far ahead of weaponry, aeronautics or information technology! Hence their desire to impose English as a world language, even if there has been a two-decade decline in their influence. Les Américains ont voulu imposer l'idée selon laquelle un livre ou un film devaient être considérés comme n'importe quel objet commercial. Car eux ont compris qu'à côté de l'armée, de la diplomatie et du commerce il existe aussi une guerre culturelle. Un combat qu'ils entendent gagner à la fois pour des raisons nobles - les États-Unis ont toujours estimé que leurs valeurs sont universelles - et moins nobles : le formatage des esprits est le meilleur moyen d'écouler les produits américains. Songez que le cinéma représente leur poste d'exportation le plus important, bien avant les armes, l'aéronautique ou l'informatique ! D'où leur volonté d'imposer l'anglais comme langue mondiale. Même si l'on note depuis deux décennies un certain recul de leur influence. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Malape · checked, community translation · [\#8909505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8909505) [\#3416374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3416374)) - He fancied that some plot might be in process of **formation** against the unhappy refugee. Il songeait qu'il se tramait peut-être quelque complot contre la malheureuse réfugiée. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6960) - If this torrent had not been arrested in its fall by the **formation** of the sides of the mountain, it would have gone on to the sea and formed more islands. Si ce torrent n'eût pas été arrêté dans sa chute par la disposition des flancs de la montagne, il serait allé se précipiter dans la mer et former des îles nouvelles. ([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 1323) ## 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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