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Forms: terre, terres. - Mary worked her **land**. Marie labourait sa **terre**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9116168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9116168) [\#2563881](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2563881)) - "You will have to go by **land**, following the shore. —Il faudra aller par **terre**, en suivant la côte. ([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 947) - I knew you in the wilderness, in the **land** of great drought. Je t’ai connu dans le désert, Dans une **terre** aride. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HOS 13:5) - Are we doing enough for peace in our own **lands**? Faisons-nous assez pour la paix sur nos propres **terres**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1230749) - Restoration of degraded **lands**. Remise en état des **terres** dégradées. ([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 2816781) ## leurs Used about 1 918 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 196 · parliamentary ≈ 80 · UN documents ≈ 1 639). - Cats always **land** on their feet. Les chats retombent toujours sur **leurs** pattes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12186841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12186841) [\#12186842](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12186842)) - Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their **lands**, Il est vrai, ô Éternel! Que les rois d’Assyrie ont détruit les nations et ravagé **leurs** pays, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2KI 19:17) - It must be possible for vessels fishing in one area to **land** the catch in a port in another area. Les navires pêchant dans une zone doivent pouvoir débarquer **leurs** prises dans un port d'une autre zone. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1437866) - In all the eastern **lands**, only our predecessors did not require that women cover their faces. Dans l ' Orient tout entier, les ancêtres des turkmènes ont été les seuls à ne pas demander à **leurs** femmes de couvrir leurs visages. ([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 11862484) - All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture **lands**. Total des villes des sacrificateurs, fils d’Aaron: treize villes, et **leurs** banlieues. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 21:19) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Especially the Lord saying to him: Return into the **land** of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee. Alors l’Éternel dit à Jacob : Retourne au pays de tes pères et dans ton lieu de naissance, et je serai avec toi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7825248](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7825248) [\#8088449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8088449)) - Planes **land** at the airport. Les avions atterrissent à l'aéroport. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4400952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4400952) [\#8564705](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8564705)) - Planes **land** at the airport. Les avions se posent dans les aéroports. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4400952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4400952) [\#2164025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2164025)) ## 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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