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Mon ami est **Indien**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#791250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/791250) [\#909058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909058)) - At two thousand pounds the **Indian** yielded. À deux mille livres, l'**Indien** se rendit. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 733) - Today we are all **Indians** at heart. Aujourd'hui, nous sommes tous **indiens** dans nos cœurs. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1171183) - **Indian** egg-eating snake Mangeur d'œufs **indien** de Westermann ([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 4250452) - Are the **Indians** denying this? Est-ce que les **Indiens** nient cela? ([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 1648090) ## inde Used about 898 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 32 · legal and administrative ≈ 246 · UN documents ≈ 616). - India—Bhārat—is still full of mystery to me. I still cannot differentiate Hindi from Punjabi upon overhearing a conversation. Of East **Indian** languages, my favourites are Pali, Sanskrit, and Tamil. Pali is the liturgical language of Southern Buddhism, whilst Sanskrit is the liturgical language of Northern Buddhism and Hinduism. Tamil is official in Singapore, along with Mandarin, Malay, and English. L'**Inde** - Bhārat - est encore pleine de mystère pour moi. Je ne peux toujours pas différencier l'hindi du pendjabi en entendant une conversation. Parmi les langues de l'Inde, mes préférées sont le pali, le sanskrit et le tamoul. Le pali est la langue liturgique du bouddhisme du sud, tandis que le sanskrit est la langue liturgique du bouddhisme du nord et de l'hindouisme. Le tamoul est officiel à Singapour, avec le mandarin, le malais et l'anglais. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and nonong · checked, community translation · [\#10830181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10830181) [\#10830182](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10830182)) - Royal houses resemble those **Indian** fig-trees, each branch of which, bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. Les maisons royales ressemblent à ces figuiers de l'**Inde** dont chaque rameau, en se courbant jusqu'à terre, y prend racine et devient un figuier. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18092) - EU-**Indian** relations are close; we are friends. Les relations UE-**Inde** sont étroites; nous sommes amis. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 723031) - The market share of **Indian** imports at the start of the period considered was in the range of 6 % to 7 %. La part de marché des importations en provenance de l'**Inde** était comprise entre 6 et 7 % au début de la période considérée. ([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 4283008) - Reforms are taking place in some **Indian** states as well. Des réformes sont également menées, actuellement, dans certains États de l ' **Inde**. ([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 27381009) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The artist drew with **Indian** ink. L'artiste a dessiné à l'encre de Chine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8286763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8286763) [\#10678889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10678889)) - The enslavement of black people didn't begin in the 15th century. In fact, before the Atlantic slave trade, there was trade in black people to the Arab-Muslim world, known as the **Indian** Ocean slave trade. This rarely discussed slave trade lasted much longer, if it doesn't still continue to this day. L'esclavage des Noirs n'a pas commencé au XVme siècle. En effet, avant la traite atlantique, il a existé un commerce des Noirs en direction du monde arabo-musulman qu'on appelle la traite orientale. Cette traite, peu évoquée, a pourtant duré beaucoup plus longtemps si elle ne perdure pas encore. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13835534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13835534) [\#13835297](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13835297)) - A door was swung open by order of the judge, and three **Indian** priests entered. Sur l'ordre du juge, une porte s'ouvrit, et trois prêtres indous furent introduits par un huissier. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1080) ## 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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