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Je veux en **garder** un. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2011415](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2011415) [\#2435780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2435780)) - “Will you **keep** my child for me?” --Voulez-vous me **garder** mon enfant? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3385) - ‘The LORD bless you, and **keep** you. Que l’Éternel te bénisse, et qu’il te **garde**! ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 6:24) - We should **keep** this perspective in mind. Nous devrions **garder** cette perspective à l'esprit. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 147460) - The Secretariat shall **keep** a record of such requests. Le Secrétariat **garde** trace écrite de ces demandes. ([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 4589451) ## tient Used about 4 408 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 142 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 259 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 412 · UN documents ≈ 2 591). - He always **keeps** his word. Il **tient** toujours parole. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#289227](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/289227) [\#133452](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/133452)) - “She **keeps** the inn.” Elle **tient** l'auberge. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8482) - Any agreements will only count for something if Turkey **keeps** its word. Tous les accords sont valables si la Turquie **tient** sa parole. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1742737) - the depositary shall **keep** its record up-to-date. le dépositaire **tient** son registre à jour. ([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 2311657) - ACI **keeps** its membership regularly informed of ICAO activities. Le Conseil **tient** ses membres régulièrement informés des activités de l ' OACI. ([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 10648355) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Don't make promises you can't **keep**. Ne faites pas une promesse que vous ne pouvez pas tenir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mamat · checked, community translation · [\#1477100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1477100) [\#128306](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/128306)) - You **keep** out of this. Reste en dehors de ça. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#240558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/240558) [\#139595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/139595)) - I'll **keep** the fish alive. Je maintiendrai le poisson en vie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#9489119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9489119) [\#3361849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3361849)) ## 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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