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Forms: fonction, fonctionner, fonctions. - The **function** creates the organ. La **fonction** crée l'organe. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5062915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5062915) [\#5062914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5062914)) - To make reparation is a **function** in which the whole soul is absorbed. Faire la réparation est une **fonction** où toute l'âme s'absorbe. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10405) - For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same **function**, Car, comme nous avons plusieurs membres dans un seul corps, et que tous les membres n’ont pas la même **fonction**, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 12:4) - Parliament's legislative **function** must also be strengthened. La **fonction** législative du Parlement doit également être renforcée. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 400299) - CCS additional **functions** (M) **Fonctions** CCS additionnelles (O) ([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 4610955) ## fonctionnement Used about 3 494 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 427 · UN documents ≈ 3 064). - Dates improve brain **function**. Les dattes améliorent le **fonctionnement** du cerveau. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9360366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9360366) [\#11964269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11964269)) - That is not to say that it is one service, but that it **functions** as one. Je ne dis pas «un seul service» mais un «**fonctionnement** uniforme». ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1825823) - The Centre therefore uses different modes of intervention and operation to carry out its **functions**. C ' est ainsi qu ' il a développé son action en déployant différentes modalités d ' intervention et de **fonctionnement**. ([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 17177952) - This protein is crucial for the organism to **function** properly. Cette protéine est cruciale au bon **fonctionnement** de l'organisme. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1123547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1123547) [\#8553127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8553127)) - We are now waiting for an explanation as to how this electronic system **functions**. Nous attendons qu'on nous explique le mode de **fonctionnement** de ce système électronique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 34628) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Some English adverbs **function** as adjectives. Certains adverbes anglais fonctionnent comme des adjectifs. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rafi · checked, community translation · [\#26310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/26310) [\#332077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/332077)) - The motor does not **function** properly. Le moteur ne fonctionne pas correctement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#31134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/31134) [\#2322086](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2322086)) - Ziri talked about how washing machines **function**. Ziri a parlé sur comment les machines à laver fonctionnent. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11148057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11148057) [\#11964273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11964273)) ## 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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