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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#252634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/252634) [\#584707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/584707)) - Three **hours** pass away. Trois **heures** se passent. ([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 3006) - About three **hours** later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in. Environ trois **heures** plus tard, sa femme entra, sans savoir ce qui était arrivé. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 5:7) - They are confined to their cells 23 **hours** a day. Ils y sont confinés 23 **heures** par jour. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1326969) - 15 **hours** at – 30 °C ± 2 °C; 15 **heures** à - 30 °C ± 2 °C; ([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 5476565) ## h Used about 27 166 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 361 · UN documents ≈ 26 805). - 22 **hours** at 70 °C 愦灭;lt; 45 per cent 22 **h** à 70 °C 愦灭;lt; 45 % ([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 5548809) - It circled over the South before leaving at 0712 **hours**. Il a survolé le sud du pays, avant de repartir à 7 **h** 12. ([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 21577575) - Reference filters shall be weighed within 8 **hours** of the test filter weighing. Les filtres de référence doivent être pesés dans les 8 **h** suivant le pesage du filtre d’essai. ([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 5499230) - It circled over the South before leaving at 2250 **hours**. Il a survolé le sud du pays, avant de repartir à 22 **h** 50. ([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 21577205) - They circled over the South before leaving at 1033 **hours**. Ils ont survolé le sud du pays, avant de repartir à 10 **h** 33. ([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 21577496) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The **hours** are terrible. La durée du travail est horriblement longue. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3494300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3494300) [\#3514639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3514639)) - In that misfortune, in that cell, she could no longer distinguish her waking **hours** from slumber, dreams from reality, any more than day from night. Dans cette infortune, dans ce cachot, elle ne pouvait pas plus distinguer la veille du sommeil, le rêve de la réalité, que le jour de la nuit. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5156) - And when he sought to picture to himself the happiness which he might have found upon earth, if she had not been a gypsy, and if he had not been a priest, if Phœbus had not existed and if she had loved him; when he pictured to himself that a life of serenity and love would have been possible to him also, even to him; that there were at that very moment, here and there upon the earth, happy couples spending the **hours** in sweet converse beneath orange trees, on the banks of brooks, in the presence of a setting sun, of a starry night; and that if God had so willed, he might have formed with her one of those blessed couples,—his heart melted in tenderness and despair. Et quand il cherchait à se faire une idée du bonheur qu'il eût put trouver sur la terre si elle n'eût pas été bohémienne et s'il n'eût pas été prêtre, si Phoebus n'eût pas existé et si elle l'eût aimé; quand il se figurait qu'une vie de sérénité et d'amour lui eût été possible aussi à lui, qu'il y avait en ce même moment çà et là sur la terre des couples heureux, perdus en longues causeries sous les orangers, au bord des ruisseaux, en présence d'un soleil couchant, d'une nuit étoilée; et que, si Dieu l'eût voulu, il eût pu faire avec elle un de ces couples de bénédiction, son coeur se fondait en tendresse et en désespoir. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5840) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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