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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#9264917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9264917) [\#11229997](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11229997)) - Oh, **losses** of men and of souls on the way! **Pertes** d'hommes et d'âmes chemin faisant! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2132) - We see huge job **losses** across the EU. Les **pertes** d'emploi dans l'UE atteignent des proportions énormes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1245111) - Foreign exchange holding gains and **losses** Gains et **pertes** de détention en devises ([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 1465656) - Handling of exchange **losses** and gains Traitement des **pertes** et gains ([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 19965918) ## financiers Used about 34 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 34). - As always, whenever economic **losses** occur, the financial damage affects those at the bottom of the production chain most. Comme toujours lorsqu'il y a préjudice économique, les dommages **financiers** affectent particulièrement ceux qui sont au bout de la chaîne de production. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1542397) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He kept on gambling, trying in vain to recoup his **losses**. Il continua à jouer, essayant en vain de se refaire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1188960](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1188960) [\#1196084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1196084)) - Life is simply too short to despair over a few **losses**. La vie est assez courte pour ne pas désespérer de tes quelques défaites. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CardinalRed and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#5715824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5715824) [\#1336770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1336770)) - A zero-sum game is a game in which any player's winnings are balanced by the other players' **losses**. Un jeu à somme nulle est un jeu au cours duquel toutes les victoires d'un joueur sont compensées par les défaites des autres joueurs. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mudri and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#3308976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3308976) [\#3309002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3309002)) ## 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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