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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2360326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2360326) [\#6939992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6939992)) - He rallied his **ideas**. Il rallia ses **idées**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9099) - The **ideas** themselves, in fact, are not new. Ces **idées** ne sont certes pas neuves en elles-mêmes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 169937) - exchange of information and **ideas**; l'échange d'informations et d'**idées**; ([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 412878) - Now is the time for good **ideas**, and more importantly, for action. Le temps est venu de proposer des bonnes **idées**, et surtout d ' agir. ([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 22350990) ## nouvelles Used about 92 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 91). - Now, as he went, he studied the groups, wandering round them full of a fresh set of **ideas**. Il allait maintenant frôlant les groupes, tournant autour, saisi par des pensées **nouvelles**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1213) - However, this report also proposes new and unacceptable **ideas**. En outre, les **nouvelles** orientations proposées dans le présent rapport sont inadmissibles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 42118) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Have you got any **ideas** yet? Avez-vous déjà une quelconque idée ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1693759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1693759) [\#1696356](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1696356)) - “**Ideas** are no use,” returned the American, shrugging his shoulders, “as the engineer assures us that we can pass.” --Pas de réflexion, c'est inutile! répondit l'Américain interpellé en haussant les épaules, puisque le mécanicien assure qu'on passera! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2386) - **Ideas** almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are fugitives from justice. L'idée refuse presque de se laisser exprimer par ces substantifs repris de justice. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21415) ## 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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