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Forms: liberté, libertés. - **Freedom** has a cost. La **liberté** a un prix. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by smomo and dadidas · checked, community translation · [\#4577227](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4577227) [\#4585418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4585418)) - Vincent de Paul has divinely traced the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which he mingles as much **freedom** as servitude: “They shall have for their convent only the house of the sick; for cell only a hired room; for chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty.” Vincent de Paul a divinement fixé la figure de la soeur de charité dans ces admirables paroles où il mêle tant de **liberté** à tant de servitude: «Elles n'auront pour monastère que la maison des malades, pour cellule qu'une chambre de louage, pour chapelle que l'église de leur paroisse, pour cloître que les rues de la ville ou les salles des hôpitaux, pour clôture que l'obéissance, pour grille que la crainte de Dieu, pour voile que la modestie.» ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4810) - So speak and so do as men who are to be judged by the law of **freedom**. Parlez et agissez comme devant être jugés par une loi de **liberté**, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 2:12) - It is our own **freedoms** that are at stake. Il en va de nos **libertés**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 90412) - European Alliance for **Freedom** Alliance européenne pour la **liberté** ([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 5605670) ## expression Used about 3 860 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 860). - to **freedom** of opinion and expression 39 — 40 9 d ' opinion et d ' **expression** 39 et 40 9 ([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 6036771) - Over recent years, Montenegro has reformed laws and introduced new legal instruments with the aim of enhancing the protection of the right to **freedom** of expression in the country. Over recent years, Montenegro has reformed laws and introduced new legal instruments with the aim of enhancing the protection of the right to freedom of **expression** in the country. ([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 29180368) ## droits Used about 1 933 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 1 930). - They don't want to protect your **freedoms**. They want to take them away. Ils ne veulent pas protéger vos **droits**. Ils veulent les laisser de côté. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and arthak · checked, community translation · [\#6015174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6015174) [\#6015608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6015608)) - There was a need to recognize that **freedom** from hunger and want were preconditions for the enjoyment of human rights. Il faut reconnaître que les conditions préalables du respect des **droits** de l ' homme ne sont pas remplies dans un pays où l ' on a faim et soif. ([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 3583609) ## fondamentales Used about 1 930 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 930). - and fundamental **freedoms** of indigenous people and other **fondamentales** des peuples autochtones ([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 20782891) ## homme Used about 1 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1). - “‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed or given her **freedom**; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free. Lorsqu’un **homme** couchera et aura commerce avec une femme, si c’est une esclave fiancée à un autre homme, et qui n’a pas été rachetée ou affranchie, ils seront châtiés, mais non punis de mort, parce qu’elle n’a pas été affranchie. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 19:20) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Out of my distress, I called on the LORD. The LORD answered me with **freedom**. Du sein de la détresse j’ai invoqué l’Éternel: L’Éternel m’a exaucé, m’a mis au large. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 118:5) - I am mentioning the Services Directive because a point may come when it will touch closely on the **freedom** of movement for workers. Je fais référence à la directive sur les services parce qu’il se peut qu’à un moment donné, elle concernera la libre circulation des travailleurs. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 782708) - Thousands of laying hens, shut up in iron coops with no **freedom** to move, that is an appalling thought. Les images de ces milliers de poules pondeuses littéralement entassées les unes sur les autres dans des cages en fer nous font froid dans le dos. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1948784) ## 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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