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Nous devons **maintenir** notre concentration. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5077342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5077342) [\#7555040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7555040)) - The Commission wants to **maintain** the high quality of this diploma. La Commission veut **maintenir** la qualité de ce diplôme. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1140687) - **Maintain** air gap between stacks/pallets. **Maintenir** un intervalle d'air entre les piles/palettes ([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 1638070) - (ii) To **maintain** situational awareness in the vicinity of MINURCAT locations; ii) **Maintenir** une connaissance des conditions régnant aux abords des sites de la Mission; ([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 23265943) - He can't **maintain** a conversation. Il ne peut pas **maintenir** une conversation. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by katsmal and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#5111800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5111800) [\#8313772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8313772)) ## maintient Used about 11 350 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 992 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 954 · UN documents ≈ 8 403). - It creates and **maintains** interpersonal relationships. Elle crée et **maintient** des relations interpersonnelles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 17663) - Helps/supports/**maintains** concentration Aide/soutient/**maintient** la concentration ([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 3606508) - The State party **maintains** that the review is effective in particular cases. L ' État partie **maintient** que le réexamen est efficace dans certains cas. ([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 5568884) - It **maintains** that the right to take collective action is an important part of labour law. Elle **maintient** que le droit de mener une action collective est un élément important du droit du travail. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1003512) - RAE **maintains** that this infrastructure is indispensable for: L'AREG **maintient** que cette infrastructure est indispensable pour: ([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 3152183) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Laser printers are generally cheaper to **maintain** than inkjet printers. Les imprimantes laser sont généralement meilleur marché à entretenir que les imprimantes à jet d'encre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lindoula and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3630776](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3630776) [\#3631629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3631629)) - In the past, the gravedigger would dig graves by hand, transport bodies with ox-drawn carts, and **maintain** the tombs. Autrefois, le fossoyeur creusait à la main les fosses, transportait les corps avec des chariots tirés par des bœufs et entretenait les tombes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13585519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13585519) [\#13585517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13585517)) - Laser printers are generally less expensive to **maintain** than ink jet printers. Les imprimantes laser sont généralement moins chères à entretenir que les imprimantes à jet d'encre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by daniel\_heurlin and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#2244816](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2244816) [\#1709565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1709565)) ## 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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