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Ce n'est pas du **français**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#10144479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10144479) [\#5830079](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5830079)) - “You **French**—you never keep your word!” --Vous autres **Français**, vous ne tenez pas vos promesses. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2359) - That is to your credit, to the credit of the **French** Presidency. Le mérite vous en revient, il en revient à la Présidence **française**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1180304) - for 2009 only, **French** Guyana pour l'année 2009 uniquement, Guyane **française**. ([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 1795136) - English and **French** only Anglais et **français** seulement ([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 22838388) ## je Used about 9 841 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 152 · UN documents ≈ 9 689). - There is a **French** proverb that reads, ‘Do not trust my friends; as for my enemies, they are for me to take care of’. Il existe en France un proverbe qui dit ceci:»Méfiez-vous de mes amis, mes ennemis **je** m’en charge!». ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 839574) - Mr. BENJELLOUN-TOUIMI (Morocco) (translated from **French**): I am very sorry to be taking the floor again. M. BENJELLOUN-TOUIMI (Maroc) : **Je** suis désolé d ' avoir à reprendre la parole. ([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 2732394) - The President (interpretation from **French**): I shall now read out the names of the candidates endorsed by the regional groups. Le Président : **Je** vais maintenant donner lecture des noms des candidats appuyés par les groupes régionaux. ([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 788193) - Mr. Daou (Mali) (spoke in **French**): I wish at the outset to welcome the convening of this important meeting. M. Daou (Mali) : **Je** voudrais d ' emblée saisir l ' occasion qui m ' est ainsi offerte pour saluer la tenue de cette importante réunion. ([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 18257296) - The Acting President (spoke in **French**): I now give the floor to His Excellency Mr. Pierre Chevalier, chairman of the Belgian delegation. Le Président par intérim : **Je** donne maintenant la parole à S. E. M. Pierre Chevalier, Chef de la délégation de la Belgique. ([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 14835958) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The current **French**-drafted UN Security Council resolution proposes a temporary increase in MONUC's authorised military strength by up to 2 785 military personnel. La proposition actuelle de résolution du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU, rédigée par la France, propose une augmentation temporaire maximale de 2 785 personnes des effectifs militaires autorisés de la MONUC. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1165279) - Those are certainly **French** events, but deeper causes underlie them. Ces évènements sont certainement propres à la France, mais des causes plus profondes en sont à l’origine. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 738207) - But who are we to believe: the man who stands before the TV cameras proclaiming **French** sovereignty, or the man who abandons our national sovereignty in a European treaty? Surtout, quel homme faut-il croire? Celui qui proclame la souveraineté de la France devant les caméras ou celui qui l'abandonne dans un traité européen? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 994518) ## 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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