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Notre équipe est la plus mauvaise de la **ligue**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6241558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6241558) [\#10042944](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10042944)) - We are playing here a European **league**. Nous jouons ici la **ligue** européenne. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2001688) - The final of the Football Champions **League**; La finale de la **Ligue** des champions de football; ([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 1141485) - **LEAGUE** OF ARAB STATES **LIGUE** DES ETATS ARABES ([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 7768130) - Do you know who the best player in the **league** is? Sais-tu qui est le meilleur joueur de la **ligue** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sctld and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#750691](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/750691) [\#10042946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10042946)) ## league Used about 1 488 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 10 · legal and administrative ≈ 42 · UN documents ≈ 1 436). - The Premier **League** sells rights to its matches to media operators throughout the world, including a large number of EU countries. La Premier **League** vend les droits de ses matchs aux opérateurs de radiotélédiffusion du monde entier, y compris dans un grand nombre de pays de l’UE. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 752906) - The Rugby **League** Challenge Cup final La finale de la Rugby **League** Challenge Cup ([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 1160374) - **League** of Arab States **League** of Arab States ([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 10807178) - The Rugby **League** Challenge Cup final (\*) La finale de la Rugby **League** Challenge Cup (\*) ([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 1160285) - **LEAGUE** OF ARAB STATES **LEAGUE** OF ARAB STATES ([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 13335509) ## football Used about 21 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 21). - In the 2014/2015 season it consisted of 38 clubs, of which 18 played in the top **league** (eredivisie) and 20 in the lower **league** (eerste divisie). Au cours de la saison 2014/2015, 38 clubs de **football** professionnel étaient recensés, dont 18 en première division (eredivisie) et 20 en deuxième division (eerste divisie). ([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 3864146) - This has in fact been demonstrated by another Dutch professional football club, PEC Zwolle, which also played in the second **league** in 2010/2011. Ces éléments ont été observés en rapport avec un autre club de **football** professionnel néerlandais, le PEC de Zwolle, qui évoluait également en deuxième division en 2010/2011. ([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 3864409) - If a successor club is founded, it would not be admitted to the professional football **leagues** directly, but it would have to start in the second-highest amateur **league**. Lorsqu'un nouveau club est ensuite formé, celui-ci n'est pas immédiatement admis dans les compétitions de **football** professionnel, mais peut commencer au deuxième niveau amateur. ([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 3878598) - If a successor club is founded, it would not be admitted to the professional football **leagues** directly, but it would have to start in the second-highest amateur **league**. Lorsqu'un nouveau club est ensuite créé, il n'est pas admis immédiatement dans la catégorie du **football** payant, mais doit débuter au deuxième niveau le plus élevé dans la catégorie amateur. ([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 3869473) - If a successor club is founded, it would not be admitted to the professional football **leagues** directly, but it would have to start in the second-highest amateur **league**. Par la suite, lorsqu'un nouveau club est fondé, celui-ci n'est pas immédiatement autorisé à accéder au **football** rémunéré, mais doit commencer au niveau suivant le niveau amateur le plus élevé. ([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 4142288) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Are you in **league** with him? Es-tu de mèche avec lui ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#11137912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11137912) [\#14069726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14069726)) - Come, therefore, let us enter into a **league**; that it may be for a testimony between me and thee. Maintenant, tiens, concluons une alliance, moi et toi, ce sera une alliance entre nous deux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7829375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7829375) [\#8081063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8081063)) - A **league** originally referred to the distance a person or a horse could walk in an hour. La lieue a comme origine la distance que peut parcourir un homme ou un cheval en une heure. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hundo and hundo · checked, community translation · [\#995141](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/995141) [\#995148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/995148)) ## 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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