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La Chine est le **premier** producteur mondial de riz. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#681944](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/681944) [\#12941289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12941289)) - This book is a drama, whose **leading** personage is the Infinite. Ce livre est un drame dont le **premier** personnage est l'infini. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10875) - Poland is the **leading** potato producer in the Union, yet it has become an importer of potato starch. La Pologne est le **premier** producteur de pomme de terre de l'Union. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 922487) - BAFA has **leading** experience in the provision of export control assistance and outreach activities. Le BAFA dispose d'une expérience de **premier** ordre dans le domaine de la prestation d'activités d'assistance et de communication en matière de contrôle des exportations. ([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 4483151) - The **leading** opposition daily, Borba, is currently threatened with being shut down. 126. Le **premier** quotidien de l ' opposition, Borba, est actuellement menacé de fermeture. ([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 1173923) ## rôle Used about 3 701 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 867 · legal and administrative ≈ 76 · UN documents ≈ 2 756). - He's almost always cast as a **leading** man. On lui donne presque toujours un **rôle** de dirigeant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1733818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1733818) [\#1735909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1735909)) - It is extremely important that the European Union should maintain its **leading** role in these negotiations. Il est très important que l'Union européenne conserve son **rôle** de chef de file dans ces négociations. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1603693) - The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) plays a **leading** role in the categorisation of countries or regions according to their BSE risk. L’Organisation mondiale de la santé animale (OIE) joue un **rôle** déterminant dans le classement des pays ou régions par catégorie en fonction du risque d’ESB. ([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 2527211) - Any future initiative should therefore recognize the **leading** role of UNESCO in this field and its capacity to mobilize other United Nations actors. Toute initiative future devrait donc reconnaître le **rôle** primordial de l ' UNESCO dans ce domaine et sa capacité de mobiliser d ' autres acteurs des Nations Unies. ([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 19864109) - He will play the **leading** role for the first time in the next school festival. Il jouera pour la première fois le **rôle** principal au prochain festival de l'école. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#264329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/264329) [\#128153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/128153)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom counts down the days **leading** up to Christmas with his Advent calendar. Tom compte les jours avant Noël avec son calendrier de l'Avent. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zumley and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#5653489](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5653489) [\#5653713](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5653713)) - He's a **leading** authority in his field. C'est une pointure dans son domaine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1475996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1475996) [\#1476793](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1476793)) - From the instant that a human being is born, their path is **leading** them towards death. Dès l'instant où naît l'être humain, c'est vers la mort que son chemin le conduit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#11614074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11614074) [\#2568572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2568572)) ## 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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