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Forms: fondation, fondations. - This house has a solid **foundation**. Cette maison a de solides **fondations**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mamat · checked, community translation · [\#60134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/60134) [\#647173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/647173)) - Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for this **foundation** was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé of Saint-Germain, “on condition that no woman could be received unless she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six thousand livres, to the principal.” Toutes deux, l'une en 1652, l'autre en 1653, firent donation de sommes notables à la mère Catherine de Bar, dite du Saint-Sacrement, religieuse bénédictine, pour fonder, dans ce but pieux, un monastère de l'ordre de Saint-Benoît; la première permission pour cette **fondation** fut donnée à la mère Catherine de Bar par Mr de Metz, abbé de Saint-Germain, «à la charge qu'aucune fille ne pourrait être reçue, qu'elle n'apportât trois cents livres de pension, qui font six mille livres au principal». ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10825) - who was foreknown indeed before the **foundation** of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake, prédestiné avant la **fondation** du monde, et manifesté à la fin des temps, à cause de vous, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 1:20) - The house of Europe needs solid **foundations**. La maison Europe a besoin de **fondations** solides. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1783483) - For European Political **Foundations** Pour les **fondations** politiques européennes ([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 3729017) ## fondements Used about 12 122 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 842 · legal and administrative ≈ 108 · UN documents ≈ 11 113). Forms: fondement, fondements. - The rumor was without **foundation**. La rumeur était sans **fondement**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#49592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49592) [\#1267424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1267424)) - If the **foundations** are destroyed, what can the righteous do? Quand les **fondements** sont renversés, Le juste, que ferait-il? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 11:3) - Then we will have laid the **foundations** for them. Nous en aurons ainsi jeté les **fondements**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1458705) - Strengthening the **foundations** for RevCon3 Renforcement des **fondements** de la troisième conférence d'examen ([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 4163365) - II. The imperative **foundations** of international II. LES **FONDEMENTS** IMPÉRATIFS DE L ' ORDRE INTERNATIONAL: ([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 10755757) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Mathematics are the **foundation** of all sciences. Les mathématiques sont la base de toute science. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1723922](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1723922) [\#1833117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1833117)) - Individual freedom is the **foundation** of democracy. La liberté individuelle est la base de la démocratie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1787055](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1787055) [\#1787767](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1787767)) - The rumor was without **foundation**. La rumeur était infondée. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and gasche · checked, community translation · [\#49592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49592) [\#427081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/427081)) ## 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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