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Forms: long, longs, longtemps, longue. - Maria has **long** hair. Maria a de **longs** cheveux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#5994](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5994) [\#450487](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/450487)) - They had not **long** to wait. L'attente ne fut pas **longue**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25922) - The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows **long**. Des laboureurs ont labouré mon dos, Ils y ont tracé de **longs** sillons. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 129:3) - This is not a matter of a wishful **long**-term perspective. Il ne s'agit pas d'un vague rêve à **long** terme. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1072863) - Medium and **long**-grain A Riz moyen et **long** A ([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 1873976) ## terme Used about 2 173 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 546 · UN documents ≈ 1 627). - **Long** six-month EUR/GBP forward contract (i.e. **long** GBP short EUR). Position longue sur contrat à **terme** (forward) EUR/GBP à six mois (c'est-à-dire longue GBP, courte EUR). ([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 4924924) - Hamlet is also aware of her power; he is buffeted by the slings and arrows of outrageous Fortune, and he **longs** to end his life, but he fears God ' s prohibition against suicide. Hamlet lui aussi est conscient de son pouvoir : il se voit fustigé par les frondes et les flèches de la terrible Fortune, et souhaite mettre un **terme** à sa vie, même s ' il craint l ' interdiction de Dieu contre le suicide. ([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 8763350) - 67 This Standard uses the term ‘non-current’ to include tangible, intangible and financial assets of a **long**-term nature. 67 La présente Norme regroupe sous le **terme** d’actifs «non courants» les immobilisations corporelles, les immobilisations incorporelles et les actifs financiers destinés à être détenus pour une longue durée. ([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 1639592) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You may take the book home so **long** as you don't get it dirty. Tu peux amener le livre chez toi tant que tu ne le salis pas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by trieuho and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#25716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25716) [\#406144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/406144)) - I don't like **long** drives. Je n'aime pas conduire sur de longues distances. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#259523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/259523) [\#14754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14754)) - I don't know how **long** I slept. Je ne sais pas combien de temps j'ai dormi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10796491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10796491) [\#10809991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10809991)) ## 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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