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Forms: donne, donner. - **Give** me the ball. **Donne**-moi le ballon ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1841172](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1841172) [\#1422458](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1422458)) - “You must **give** it to me.” --Il faut me le **donner**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4274) - They were glad, and agreed to **give** him money. Ils furent dans la joie, et ils convinrent de lui **donner** de l’argent. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 22:5) - At the same time, it **gives** rise, however, to some concern. Dans le même temps, il **donne** lieu, néanmoins, à certaines préoccupations. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 566494) - the shape which **gives** substantial value to the goods; par la forme qui **donne** une valeur substantielle au produit; ([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 1809319) ## je Used about 8 053 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 388 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 108 · parliamentary ≈ 4 940 · UN documents ≈ 2 610). - I can **give** you a lift. **Je** peux vous ramener. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2300734](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2300734) [\#11802965](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11802965)) - “I will **give** you six francs a month.” --**Je** donnerais six francs par mois. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3398) - for I will **give** all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever. car tout le pays que tu vois, **je** le donnerai à toi et à ta postérité pour toujours. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 13:15) - I do not believe that we should just **give** this up. **Je** pense que nous ne devrions pas y renoncer. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1435936) - “If I were a donor country, I would never **give** aid to a dictator”. «Si j ' étais un pays donateur, **je** ne donnerais jamais d ' aide à un dictateur.» ([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 785280) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Do colleges **give** homework too? Les collèges donnent-ils également des devoirs à faire chez soi? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by JSakuragi and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4008811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4008811) [\#4008819](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4008819)) - Would you please **give** our compliments to the chef? Pourriez-vous transmettre nos compliments au chef ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7306610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7306610) [\#10510768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10510768)) - If she expects them to **give** her five days off work with pay, she's going to be disappointed. Si elle s'attend à ce qu'ils lui donnent cinq jours de congés payés, elle va être déçue. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and Sisyphe · checked, community translation · [\#455965](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/455965) [\#3196497](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3196497)) ## 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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