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L'Union **transmet** l'autorisation de pêche à l'armateur ou à son agent. ([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 3440376) - 1. The Focal Point **forwards** the petition to the panel and informs the Committee about it. 1. Le point focal **transmet** la demande de radiation au groupe et informe le Comité de son existence. ([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 17971799) - To that end, the requested authority shall **forward** a suitable number of samples to the requesting authority. À cette fin, l’autorité requise **transmet** un nombre approprié d’échantillons à l’autorité requérante. ([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 96181) - The Ministry of Justice **forwards** the report to Parliament ' s Legal Affairs Committee. Le Ministère de la justice **transmet** le rapport à la Commission parlementaire des affaires juridiques. ([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 20452475) - The authorising officer shall **forward** all information that the accounting officer needs in order to fulfil his/her duties. L’ordonnateur **transmet** toutes les informations dont le comptable a besoin pour remplir ses fonctions. ([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 1724660) ## avant Used about 17 083 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 8 297 · legal and administrative ≈ 791 · UN documents ≈ 7 943). Forms: avancer, avant. - Fear is an enemy we have to face to move **forward**. La peur est un ennemi qu'il faut affronter pour **avancer**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12778842](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12778842) [\#12778843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12778843)) - "**Forward**!" replied my uncle. —En **avant**!» répondit mon oncle. ([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 1443) - All of them come for violence. Their hordes face **forward**. They gather prisoners like sand. Tout ce peuple vient pour se livrer au pillage; Ses regards avides se portent en **avant**, Et il assemble des prisonniers comme du sable. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HAB 1:9) - We must look **forward**. Nous devons regarder de l'**avant**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 276465) - If there is no exit **forward** of a seat or row of seats: S'il n'existe pas d'issue à l'**avant** d'un siège ou d'une rangée de sièges: ([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 5418817) ## vers Used about 10 550 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 622 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 976 · UN documents ≈ 7 943). - His handwriting slants **forwards**, whereas hers slants backwards. Son écriture penche **vers** l'avant, alors que la sienne penche vers l'arrière. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4727218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4727218) [\#9679475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9679475)) - Therefore let no one despise him. But set him **forward** on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers. Que personne donc ne le méprise. Accompagnez-le en paix, afin qu’il vienne **vers** moi, car je l’attends avec les frères. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 16:11) - America’s role in the world has been as the country that looks **forwards**, not back. L’Amérique dans le monde jour le rôle du pays qui regarde **vers** l’avenir, pas vers le passé. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 839331) - **Forward** facing seating positions Places assises faisant face **vers** l'avant ([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 5547674) - Horizontal angle: 45° outwards, **forwards** and rearwards. Angle horizontal : 45° **vers** l ' extérieur, vers l ' avant et vers l ' arrière. ([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 15749114) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I'm really looking **forward** to tomorrow. J'ai vraiment hâte d'être à demain. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2538912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2538912) [\#11884990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11884990)) - I'm looking **forward** to your letter. J'attends ta lettre avec impatience ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2537022](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2537022) [\#7794883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7794883)) - I should **forward** this information to Tom. Je devrais transmettre ce savoir à Tom. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6882542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6882542) [\#6876767](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6876767)) ## 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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