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Forms: main, mains. - He raised his **hands**. Il leva les **mains**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#513534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/513534) [\#6465507](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6465507)) - He loosed her **hands**. Il dégagea ses **mains**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30932) - For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his **hands** make whole. Il fait la plaie, et il la bande; Il blesse, et sa **main** guérit. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 5:18) - We all have the future in our **hands**. Notre avenir est entre nos **mains**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1771604) - Access steps and **hand**-holds; marchepieds et **mains** courantes; ([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 5540210) ## autre Used about 5 946 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 2 487 · legal and administrative ≈ 219 · UN documents ≈ 3 189). - Raise your **hands** if you need another copy. Faites signe si vous avez besoin d'une **autre** copie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13974250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13974250) [\#13974252](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13974252)) - On the one **hand**, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. D'un côté des miasmes, de l'**autre** un ineffable parfum. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12550) - Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right **hand** and one on the left. Avec lui furent crucifiés deux brigands, l’un à sa droite, et l’**autre** à sa gauche. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 27:38) - On the other **hand**, they must not (all) be left to go bankrupt, either. D'un **autre** côté, il ne faut pas non plus (toutes) les laisser aller à la faillite. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1233718) - When a company assumes a risk, it should be able, on the one **hand**, to control the risks \[169\] and, on the other **hand**, to financially assume such a risk \[170\]. Lorsqu'une entreprise prend un risque, elle doit d'une part pouvoir contrôler les risques \[169\] et, d'**autre** part, pouvoir assumer financièrement un tel risque \[170\]. ([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 4160285) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - What you're saying is interesting but hardly germane to the topic at **hand**. Ce que tu dis est intéressant mais se rapporte à peine au sujet dont il est question. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1127428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1127428) [\#1128973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1128973)) - Second-**hand** smoke can cause fatal lung cancer and heart disease among people who have never themselves smoked. Le fumée secondaire peut provoquer un cancer du poumon et des maladies du cœur mortels chez les personnes qui n’ont jamais fumé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Objectivesea · checked, community translation · [\#13478961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13478961) [\#13478960](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13478960)) - No, it's second **hand**. Non, il est d'occasion. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#36318](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/36318) [\#919219](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/919219)) ## 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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