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C'est le **chef** de classe. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#291107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/291107) [\#138879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/138879)) - Jeuz, Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, **heads** of fathers’ households. Jeuts, Schocja et Mirma. Ce sont là ses fils, **chefs** de famille. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 8:10) - I cannot remember who gave the example of the **head** cook. J'ignore qui a utilisé l'exemple du **chef**-coq. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1691224) - **Head** of unit or equivalent **Chef** d'unité ou équivalent ([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 3024526) - **Head** of Supreme Court **Chef** de la Cour suprême ([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 8973496) ## tête Used about 12 235 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 388 · literary ≈ 289 · biblical ≈ 269 · parliamentary ≈ 737 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 868 · UN documents ≈ 3 684). Forms: tête, têtes. - I have a sore **head**. J'ai mal à la **tête**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sctld and Pharamp · checked, community translation · [\#757368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/757368) [\#129589](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129589)) - Axel! a human **head**!" Axel! une **tête** humaine! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3360) - But the very hairs of your **head** are all numbered. Et même les cheveux de votre **tête** sont tous comptés. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 10:30) - We cannot pursue this **head**-in-the-sand policy. Nous ne pouvons poursuivre cette politique de la **tête** dans le sable. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1027253) - Amount (EUR) per **head** Montant en euros par **tête** ([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 462269) ## état Used about 123 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 123). - The **head** of state of Canada is Her Majesty the Queen, who is also the **head** of state of Australia. Le chef d' **État** du Canada est Sa Majesté la Reine qui est également chef d' État de l' Australie. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 62133) - This is pure hypocrisy and is aimed at ushering in a new 'superstate' over the **heads** of the peoples. Ceci n'est que pure hypocrisie et a pour objectif d'introduire un nouveau "super-**État**" sur le dos des gens. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1037932) ## gouvernement Used about 61 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 61). - Moreover, I hope that the newly appointed **head** of the transitional government in Libya will soon be visiting us here in Europe. De plus, j'espère que le nouveau chef du **gouvernement** transitoire en Libye nous rendra bientôt visite ici en Europe. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1521115) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found the **head** and source of all your son’s distemper. Il prétend, ma chère Gertrude, avoir trouvé le principe et la source du dérangement de votre fils. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1172028](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1172028) [\#1172030](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1172030)) - I cooled the patient's **head** with ice. J'ai rafraîchi le patient avec de la glace. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#318476](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/318476) [\#15756](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15756)) - He often says whatever comes into his **head**. Il parle souvent à tort et à travers. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Ankio · checked, community translation · [\#13807333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13807333) [\#3367574](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3367574)) ## 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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