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By style: everyday 111 · literary 3 · parliamentary 2 504 · legal and administrative 2 811 · UN documents 23 328. ## plus Used about 12 286 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 522 · legal and administrative ≈ 586 · UN documents ≈ 11 178). - And thinking that the elder, who seemed to him the more worthy of his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he handed him the **largest** share:— Et, pensant que l'aîné, qui lui paraissait **plus** digne de sa conversation, méritait quelque encouragement spécial et devait être débarrassé de toute hésitation à satisfaire son appétit, il ajouta en lui donnant la plus grosse part: ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20612) - Agriculture is Northern Ireland's **largest** industry. L'agriculture est l'industrie la **plus** développée d'Irlande du Nord. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1898112) - Rent Payable by **Largest** Tenant Loyer à payer par le locataire le **plus** important ([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 3569748) - 9. The 15 **largest** urban agglomerations in the world in 1994 and as 9. Les 15 **plus** grandes agglomérations urbaines du monde en 1994 et, ([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 2018391) - Romania is Europe’s **largest** area for genetically modified organisms. La Roumanie est l’endroit d’Europe où l’on trouve le **plus** d’organismes génétiquement modifiés. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 730991) ## grande Used about 5 967 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 304 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 171 · UN documents ≈ 3 402). Forms: grand, grande, grands. - It's the **largest** in the world. C'est le plus **grand** au monde. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1671763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1671763) [\#1673301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1673301)) - She usually took a complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the smallest to the **largest**. Elle en prenait ordinairement une gamme complète, c'est-à-dire sept, de dix ans à seize inclusivement, voix et tailles assorties, qu'elle faisait chanter debout, alignées côte à côte par rang d'âge de la plus petite à la plus **grande**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10735) - We are the **largest** of all donors to the Palestinians. De tous les donateurs à la Palestine, nous sommes le plus **grand**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 4038) - The **largest** height of segment. À la plus **grande** hauteur de segment. ([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 5517182) - a **Largest** cross-sectional area of the load being measured. a Aire de la plus **grande** section du chargement. ([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 17337791) ## importants Used about 2 295 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 351 · UN documents ≈ 1 944). - The .eu TLD is one of the **largest** country code TLDs (ccTLDs). Le TLD .eu est l'un des plus **importants** domaines nationaux de premier niveau (ccTLD) du monde. ([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 4928701) - The United States market is one of the **largest** in the world for food and fish products exported by the leading Cuban companies in these sectors. Le marché américain est l ' un des plus **importants** à l ' échelle mondiale pour les sociétés cubaines exportatrices de produits alimentaires et de la pêche. ([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 25330957) - This sample consisted of the four **largest** Union producers in terms of production and sales. Cet échantillon était composé des quatre plus **importants** producteurs de l’Union en matière de production et de ventes. ([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 5266880) - Although people with British or French backgrounds still made up the **largest** ethnic groups, neither group accounted for a majority of the population. Même si les Canadiens d ' origine britannique ou française composaient encore les groupes ethniques les plus **importants**, aucun d ' eux ne constituait la majorité de la population. ([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 5258487) - The FDLR is one of the **largest** foreign armed groups operating in the territory of the DRC. Les FDLR sont l'un des plus **importants** groupes armés étrangers opérant sur le territoire de la République démocratique du Congo. ([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 4278962) ## gros Used about 1 036 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 52 · UN documents ≈ 972). - The whale is the **largest** animal on Earth. La balaine est le plus **gros** animal au monde. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#12064933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12064933) [\#12064929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12064929)) - This way of thinking is all the more ingenuous because the USA is the **largest** exporter of agricultural products to the Developing World, and not only to the European Union. D'autant plus que ce pays est le plus **gros** exportateur de produits agricoles à destination du tiers monde et pas seulement de l'Union européenne. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 366180) - The food and beverage processing industry is the **largest** manufacturing industry and an important employer in many rural areas. L ' industrie agroalimentaire est la plus importante industrie manufacturière et un **gros** employeur dans de nombreuses zones rurales. ([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 25770503) - Australia is the **largest** country in Oceania. L’Australie est le plus **gros** pays de l'Océanie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and RoiOfTheSuisse · checked, community translation · [\#1815532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1815532) [\#1913835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1913835)) - The decision was supported by the Office of Human Resources Management, the Field Personnel Division and UNDP (the second **largest** client of the Division ' s roster). Le Bureau de la gestion des ressources humaines, la Division du personnel et le PNUD (le deuxième plus **gros** utilisateur du fichier) se sont dits favorables à cette décision. ([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 16447811) ## monde Used about 550 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 52 · UN documents ≈ 486). - Russia is the **largest** country in the world. La Russie est le pays le plus étendu du **monde**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by erikspen and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1680998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1680998) [\#554821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/554821)) - in writing. - The EU as a bloc is the world's **largest** contributor of humanitarian aid. L'UE dans son ensemble est le principal fournisseur d'aide humanitaire dans le **monde**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1470269) - 1. Algeria is the **largest** country in African and the Arab world in terms of surface area. L ' Algérie est le premier pays d ' Afrique et du **monde** arabe de par sa superficie. ([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 26193236) - London is among the **largest** cities in the world. Londres est une des plus grandes villes du **monde**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by trieuho and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#29265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/29265) [\#1330409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1330409)) - New York is among the **largest** cities in the world. New York est une des plus grandes villes du **monde**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jesse and mouche · checked, community translation · [\#35895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35895) [\#13026](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13026)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I naturally defend the proportion, and that will be the **largest** proportion, of the Greens who will be voting against. Je défends évidemment la partie - et ce sera la partie majoritaire - des Verts qui rendra un vote négatif. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 211135) - It is the third **largest**. C'est la troisième en ordre de grandeur. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1579254) - The Netherlands is the **largest** net contributor per citizen, and we want to see this change very soon. Les Pays-Bas sont le premier contributeur net par habitant, et nous voulons mettre fin rapidement à cet état de fait. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1301157) ## 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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