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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1494571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1494571) [\#1693144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1693144)) - As a lawyer, I am well aware that the **legal** basis is important. En tant que juriste, je sais bien que la base **juridique** est importante. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 662206) - **Legal** basis for assessment Base **juridique** de l'appréciation ([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 4823928) - Two different **legal** regimes? Deux régimes **juridiques** distincts? ([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 25654351) - I charge **legal** advice. Mes conseils **juridiques** sont facturés. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8391811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8391811) [\#11941420](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11941420)) ## judiciaire Used about 28 969 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 709 · legal and administrative ≈ 832 · UN documents ≈ 26 423). - This contract dispute turned into a **legal** wrangle. Ce différend contractuel s'est transformé en bataille **judiciaire**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#12654445](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12654445) [\#12654446](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12654446)) - What is now needed is for the European Union to exert more pressure to get reforms implemented and the **legal** structure improved. Il convient à présent que l’Union européenne accentue sa pression afin de veiller à la mise en œuvre des réformes et au renforcement de la structure **judiciaire**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 690457) - They can also be used to support any **legal** investigations in the event of a security incident. Ils peuvent également servir à l’appui de toute enquête **judiciaire** en cas d’incident de sécurité. ([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 5342653) - Al-Ma ' amari did not have **legal** assistance during his trial. Al-Ma ' amari n ' a bénéficié d ' aucune assistance **judiciaire** pendant son procès. ([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 20736180) - Because of a **legal** error, an innocent man was convicted. À cause d'une erreur **judiciaire**, un innocent a été condamné. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#11279270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11279270) [\#2815113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2815113)) ## légal Used about 21 729 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 4 556 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 319 · UN documents ≈ 8 808). Forms: légal, légale. - It's perfectly **legal**. C'est parfaitement **légal**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1779830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1779830) [\#1784482](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1784482)) - Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, a **legal** limit always in sight, and then, escape. Deux lieux d'esclavage; mais dans le premier la délivrance possible, une limite **légale** toujours entrevue, et puis l'évasion. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12553) - Women's rights and **legal** position are among these things. Les droits des femmes, le statut **légal** des femmes font partie de ces choses. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 410751) - Loss/suspension of right to be a **legal** guardian \[3\] Perte/suspension du droit d’être tuteur **légal** \[3\] ([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 1669606) - The fixed **legal** age for marriage was 20 years for men and 18 years for women. L ' âge **légal** fixé pour le mariage est de 20 ans pour les hommes, et de 18 ans pour les femmes. ([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 6054120) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The U.S. would be nothing without its immigrants, **legal** and illegal. Les USA ne seraient rien sans ses immigrants, légaux et illégaux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#744530](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/744530) [\#800387](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/800387)) - You must take **legal** action against him. Vous devez agir contre lui. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13328577](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13328577) [\#13328592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13328592)) - Is this money still **legal** tender? Cette monnaie a-t-elle encore cours ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3492769](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3492769) [\#3514753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3514753)) ## 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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