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By style: everyday 63 · literary 36 · biblical 147 · parliamentary 3 565 · legal and administrative 2 681 · UN documents 50 068. ## chefs Used about 42 891 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 77 · parliamentary ≈ 2 897 · legal and administrative ≈ 279 · UN documents ≈ 39 637). - None of the former **heads** of state improved the standard of living of the French. Aucun des **chefs** d'État précédents n'a amélioré les conditions de vie des Français. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#3272771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3272771) [\#3272772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3272772)) - 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) - The ball is indeed in the court of the **Heads** of State and Government. La balle est en effet dans le camp des **chefs** d'État et de gouvernement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1922531) - The rules for the selection shall be decided by the **Heads** of Delegation. Les règles de sélection sont décidées par les **chefs** de délégation. ([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 85956) - F. Messages from **heads** of State and other personalities F. Messages de **chefs** d ' État et autres personnalités ([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 7803709) ## tête Used about 2 084 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · literary ≈ 34 · biblical ≈ 43 · parliamentary ≈ 74 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 899). Forms: tête, têtes. - So many **heads**, so many minds. Chaque **tête**, chaque avis. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#7135898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7135898) [\#7135895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7135895)) - All dropped their **heads** with a gloomy air. Tous baissèrent la **tête** d'un air sombre. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25685) - Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their **heads** Les passants l’injuriaient, et secouaient la **tête**, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 27:39) - The sword of Damocles that being laid off represents has been hanging over the **heads** of thousands of Airbus employees since January. L'épée de Damoclès que représente un licenciement plane au-dessus des **têtes** de plusieurs milliers d'employés d'Airbus depuis janvier. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 927606) - Screws and bolts without **heads** in steel Vis et boulons sans **tête** en acier ([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 4082879) ## état Used about 74 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 74). - 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) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I can't make **heads** or tails of it. J'y comprends que couic. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#9243493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9243493) [\#13991312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13991312)) - Towel racks, shower **heads**, and toilet-roll holders are bathroom accessories. Les porte-serviettes, les pommeaux de douche et les distributeurs de papier-toilette sont des accessoires de salle de bains. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8597362](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8597362) [\#11958319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958319)) - Well, you might've given me a **heads**-up. Ben, t'aurais pu me prévenir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13362638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362638) [\#13362626](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362626)) ## 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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