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Forms: connu, connue, connus. - The pianist is **known** from all. Le pianiste est **connu** de tous. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gib and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#9795176](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9795176) [\#814717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/814717)) - The “Henrietta,” well **known**.” L'Henrietta, bien **connue**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2836) - They will do these things because they have not **known** the Father nor me. Et ils agiront ainsi, parce qu’ils n’ont **connu** ni le Père ni moi. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 16:3) - Addiction, medical problems, social misery, abuse, all these things are well **known**. L'addiction, les problèmes médicaux, la misère sociale, les abus, tout cela est bien **connu**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 958251) - The frequency is not **known**. La fréquence de ce type de réactions n'est pas **connue**. ([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 4485358) ## on Used about 12 595 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 31 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 31 · parliamentary ≈ 860 · legal and administrative ≈ 513 · UN documents ≈ 11 149). - We've **known** each other for thirty years. Cela fait trente ans qu'**on** se connaît. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#5620493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5620493) [\#5620523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5620523)) - It is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were not yet **known**. Il est juste de dire qu'**on** ne connaissait pas encore les détails de l'événement d'Arras. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6564) - because that which is **known** of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. car ce qu’**on** peut connaître de Dieu est manifeste pour eux, Dieu le leur ayant fait connaître. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 1:19) - Madam President, there is a well-**known** saying: 'Victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan'. Madame le Président, **on** le sait: «la victoire a mille pères, la défaite est orpheline». ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1974793) - Luminance measurements shall be made on a diffuse colourless surface with **known** diffuse reflection factor \[1\]. Les luminances sont mesurées sur une surface diffusante incolore dont **on** connaît le facteur de réflexion diffuse \[1\]. ([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 5523840) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Have you ever **known** me to be mistaken? M'as-tu déjà vu me tromper ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3731197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3731197) [\#3973973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3973973)) - He should have **known** better. Il n'aurait pas dû être aussi bête. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1879677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1879677) [\#1958256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1958256)) - How long have you **known** Jack? Depuis combien de temps connais-tu Jack ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#53158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/53158) [\#338266](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/338266)) ## 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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