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En d' autres termes, l' UE sera-t-elle impliquée dans cette force de **maintien** de la paix des Nations unies ? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 260136) - financing peace-**keeping** operations du financement des opérations de **maintien** de la paix ([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 496930) - As regards the policy on wages, we advocate **keeping** wages in line with the Retail Price Index. We believe actual wages should be in line with productivity. En matière de politique salariale, nous misons sur un **maintien** des salaires au niveau de l'IPC, des salaires réels au niveau de la productivité. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 457459) - duty of the Collective Peace-**keeping** Forces in du mandat des Forces collectives de **maintien** de la paix ([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 1259671) - Of course, as well as numerous functions to aid the construction of authorities on the ground, they carry out peace-**keeping** tasks, and do it very well. Elles assument, outre une multitude de tâches visant à la restauration des instances locales, des missions de **maintien** de la paix, et le font très bien. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1829816) ## garder Used about 1 260 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 124 · legal and administrative ≈ 134 · UN documents ≈ 980). - Are you good at **keeping** secrets? Sais-tu **garder** un secret ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4233802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4233802) [\#4235400](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4235400)) - But what do those Thénardiers mean by **keeping** my Cosette from me! Mais qu'est-ce qu'ils ont donc ces Thénardier à me **garder** ma Cosette! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4537) - There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and **keeping** watch by night over their flock. Il y avait, dans cette même contrée, des bergers qui passaient dans les champs les veilles de la nuit pour **garder** leurs troupeaux. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 2:8) - I should add that I appreciate very much the European Parliament's commitment in **keeping** HIV/AIDS high on the political agenda. Je dois ajouter que j'apprécie l'engagement du Parlement européen à **garder** le VIH/SIDA en tête des priorités politiques. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1168468) - The following defects may be allowed provided the produce retains its essential characteristics as regards the quality, the **keeping** quality and presentation: Ils peuvent toutefois présenter les défauts énumérés ci-après, à condition de **garder** leurs caractéristiques essentielles de qualité, de conservation et de présentation: ([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 4923480) ## paix Used about 1 166 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 187 · UN documents ≈ 980). - The European Union was created to promote the cause of peace. We are charged with **keeping** the spirit of peace alive and working for a better future for us all. L'Union européenne a été construite pour la **paix**, sachons conserver cet esprit et laissons place à notre avenir commun. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 446352) - Spain supported initiatives presented that led resolutely to that goal, based on a realistic model that was in **keeping** with the Middle East peace process. L ' Espagne appuie les initiatives présentées qui promeuvent résolument cet objectif, compte tenu d ' un modèle réaliste conforme au processus de **paix** au Moyen-Orient. ([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 26703948) - Priority should be given to an IFOR-style peace-**keeping** force of the kind we have in Bosnia and to a EU planning and analysis unit. Un corps de **paix** du style IFOR, comme il existe en Bosnie, ainsi qu'une unité de planification et d'analyse propre à l'UE devraient avoir la priorité. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1620940) - We should perhaps - or should I say, definitely - be prepared to make a contribution, should it prove necessary, to the replacement of the peace-**keeping** forces. Nous devrions peut-être même indéniablement nous préparer à contribuer, si nécessaire, au renouvellement de ces forces de la **paix**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 871334) ## opérations Used about 980 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 980). - C. Apportionment of the costs of peace-**keeping** operations C. Répartition des charges afférentes aux **opérations** ([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 1325780) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I'm **keeping** an eye on you. Je garde un œil sur toi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zarisi · checked, community translation · [\#3818205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3818205) [\#8352758](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8352758)) - I'm **keeping** a record of basal body temperature. Je consigne la température corporelle basale. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fishda and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#20652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20652) [\#914591](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/914591)) - I suggest **keeping** your opinions to yourself from now on. Je suggère que vous gardiez vos opinions pour vous, dorénavant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#3127983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3127983) [\#3451676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3451676)) ## 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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