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La Grèce a beaucoup d'**îles**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by freddy1 and Rockaround · checked, community translation · [\#2122300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2122300) [\#6820564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6820564)) - If this torrent had not been arrested in its fall by the formation of the sides of the mountain, it would have gone on to the sea and formed more **islands**. Si ce torrent n'eût pas été arrêté dans sa chute par la disposition des flancs de la montagne, il serait allé se précipiter dans la mer et former des **îles** nouvelles. ([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 1323) - King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land and on the **islands** of the sea. Le roi Assuérus imposa un tribut au pays et aux **îles** de la mer. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EST 10:1) - **Islands** have to be helped. Les **îles** doivent être aidées. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 588932) - VIRGIN **ISLANDS**, U.S. **ÎLES** VIERGES DES ÉTATS-UNIS ([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 3350091) ## canaries Used about 158 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 72 · legal and administrative ≈ 87). - Seven regions are also affected and these are the Azores, Madeira, the Canary **Islands**, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Réunion. Pour les régions, les Açores, Madère, les **Canaries**, la Guadeloupe, la Guyane, la Martinique et la Réunion. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 207464) - The territory of the province of Las Palmas in the Canary **Islands** Le territoire de la province de Las Palmas aux **Canaries** ([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 1699134) - It could be said, perhaps, that since the amendments approved for the Canary **Islands**, numbers 5 to 8, are so strictly drawn up, they might allow little margin for subsequent development. On peut peut-être signaler que les amendements portant sur les **Canaries** - 5 à 8 - sont formulés de façon très stricte, et laissent probablement peu de marge pour une évolution ultérieure. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1801213) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I spent my holidays on the Balearic **Islands**. J'ai passé mes vacances aux Baléares. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nylez and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#9311736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9311736) [\#1083313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1083313)) - I spent my vacation in the Balearic **Islands**. J'ai passé mes vacances aux Baléares. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6949742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6949742) [\#1083313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1083313)) - Listen, **islands**, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: the LORD has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name. Iles, écoutez-moi! Peuples lointains, soyez attentifs! L’Éternel m’a appelé dès ma naissance, Il m’a nommé dès ma sortie des entrailles maternelles. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 49:1) ## 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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