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C'est sans **importance**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3722171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3722171) [\#4481512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4481512)) - Mr Zapatero emphasised the **importance** of human rights. M. Zapatero a souligné l'**importance** des droits de l'homme. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1328751) - The temperature is of paramount **importance**. La température revêt donc une **importance** capitale. ([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 1506681) - 2. Stresses the **importance** of the creation of a competition culture; 2. Souligne l ' **importance** d ' une culture de concurrence; ([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 6686117) - The matter is of no **importance**. L'affaire est sans **importance**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#43657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43657) [\#459709](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/459709)) ## développement Used about 7 619 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 7 619). - - The **importance** of reproductive health to development and attainment of the MDGs has been communicated to the policy makers \* L ' attention des décideurs a été attirée sur le rôle important de la santé génésique dans le **développement** et la poursuite des OMD; ([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 24228578) - 39. Some delegations considered it of primary **importance** to include provisions regarding poverty and underdevelopment in the preambular as well as in the operative part of the future protocol. 39. Pour plusieurs délégations, il était capital d ' inclure dans le préambule de même que dans le dispositif du futur protocole des dispositions concernant la pauvreté et le sous-**développement**. ([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 2944281) ## question Used about 4 191 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 381 · UN documents ≈ 3 810). - We are also given hope by the fact that the issue of the death penalty in the United States has been given a completely new political **importance**. C'est avec espoir que nous constatons que la **question** de la peine de mort aux États-Unis a reçu un poids politique tout à fait nouveau. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 77694) - 40. In the textile sector, the question of comparative advantage is of particular **importance**. 40. Dans le secteur des textiles, la **question** de l ' avantage comparatif est particulièrement importante. ([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 2924790) ## je Used about 762 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 762). - I also ask for the support of the House on this point, which is of particular **importance** to the Portuguese public. **Je** voudrais demander le soutien de cette Assemblée sur ce point particulier qui touche particulièrement l'opinion publique portugaise. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 351495) - This will take on even greater **importance** in the context of the new financial perspective 2007-2013, assuming it is adopted soon by Parliament, as I hope it will be. Cela sera d’autant plus nécessaire dans le cadre des nouvelles perspectives financières 2007-2013 si, comme **je** le souhaite, celles-ci sont approuvées prochainement par notre Parlement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 807526) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Pardon me, would you explain to me the **importance** of this phrase? Pardon, pourrais-tu m'expliquer la signification de cette phrase ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by awynands and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#796111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/796111) [\#541637](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/541637)) - This is a matter of great **importance**. C'est très important. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Christiane · checked, community translation · [\#55878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/55878) [\#740017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/740017)) - She talked about the **importance** of a guide dog. Elle a parlé de l'important d'un chien d'aveugle. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8253292](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8253292) [\#11840165](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11840165)) ## 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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