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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#1045540](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1045540) [\#1045539](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1045539)) - “That makes **forty** francs.” --Cela fait **quarante** francs. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4082) - The children of Bani, six hundred **forty**-two. les fils de Bani, six cent **quarante**-deux; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZR 2:10) - Are there **forty** colleagues who will stand up? Y a-t-il **quarante** collègues qui se lèvent? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1117914) - PL: Foreign participation is limited to **forty** nine percent. PL: La participation étrangère est limitée à **quarante**-neuf pour cent. ([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 377954) ## ans Used about 8 340 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 37 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 8 288). - He must be about **forty**. Il doit avoir environ 40 **ans**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#288559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/288559) [\#130622](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130622)) - Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was approaching her **forties**, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. Thénardier venait de dépasser ses cinquante **ans**; madame Thénardier touchait à la quarantaine, qui est la cinquantaine de la femme; de façon qu'il y avait équilibre d'âge entre la femme et le mari. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8052) - Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel **forty**-two years. Saül était âgé de… **ans**, lorsqu’il devint roi, et il avait déjà régné deux ans sur Israël. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 13:1) - It has all been said before. One hundred and **forty**-six ships have gone to the bottom in ten years. Nous l' avons déjà dit : 146 navires ont fait naufrage en dix **ans**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 151968) - The ensuing decommissioning period can last **forty** years, with funds to be set aside for the shutdown of the installation. La période de déclassement qui s'ensuit peut durer 40 **ans**, des fonds devant être mis de côté pour la fermeture de l'installation. ([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 3485134) ## session Used about 6 446 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 6 446). - for the one-hundred-and-**forty**-seventh session of the World Forum, de la cent quaranteseptième **session** du Forum mondial, qui s ' ouvrira ([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 19152632) - I. Provisional agenda for the **forty**-eighth session of the Trade and I. Ordre du jour provisoire de la quarantehuitième **session** du Conseil du commerce ([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 8423617) - PROVISIONAL AGENDA FOR THE **FORTY**-EIGHTH SESSION OF THE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD ORDRE DU JOUR PROVISOIRE DE LA QUARANTEHUITIÈME **SESSION** DU CONSEIL DU COMMERCE ET DU DÉVELOPPEMENT ([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 8423796) - At its **forty**-first session, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted the following decision At its forty-first **session**, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women adopted the following decision ([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 21179331) - The Council will have before it the report of the Commission for Social Development on its **forty**-first session (New York, 10-21 February 2003). Le Conseil sera saisi du rapport de la Commission du développement social sur les travaux de sa quarantième et unième **session** (New York, 10-21 février 2003). ([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 10580457) ## sa Used about 921 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 921). - An Israeli civilian, a man in his **forties**, was killed after a mortar shell hit his home in Kibbutz Kfar Aaza. Un civil israélien quadragénaire a été tué après qu ' un obus de mortier eut atteint **sa** maison dans le kibboutz Kfar Aaza. ([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 17966109) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - This class consists of **forty** pupils. Cette classe comprend 40 élèves. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#61184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/61184) [\#598468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/598468)) - He is past **forty**. Il a passé la quarantaine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lugal · checked, community translation · [\#288563](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/288563) [\#130623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130623)) - **Forty** euros for a scarf? You don't have anything cheaper? 40 euros pour une écharpe ? Vous n'avez rien de moins cher ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Quazel and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#960765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/960765) [\#587008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/587008)) ## 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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