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Forms: majorité, majorités. - They had the **majority** in Parliament. Ils avaient la **majorité** au Parlement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Joseph and xhlulu · checked, community translation · [\#2629419](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2629419) [\#10710989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10710989)) - There are no **majorities** here. Il n’y a pas de **majorités** ici. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 547559) - It shall take its decisions by **majority** vote. Il prend ses décisions à la **majorité**. ([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 299731) - For A **majority** of read Some Remplacer < < Une **majorité** de > > par < < Quelques > > . ([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 14447367) - The **majority** of police officers are men. La **majorité** des policiers sont des hommes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11179849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11179849) [\#11179895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11179895)) ## minorités Used about 841 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 142 · UN documents ≈ 698). - They need to work on political stability, they need to stop any provocation of ethnic non-**majorities** and neighbours, and they need to guarantee freedom of the media and expression. Elles doivent œuvrer à la stabilité politique, renoncer à toute provocation à l'égard des **minorités** ethniques et des voisins, et garantir la liberté des médias et d'expression. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1540738) - Apart from the **majority** Han ethnic group, there were 55 ethnic minorities, a total of 100 million people who accounted for 8 per cent of the total population. Outre les Hans, groupe ethnique majoritaire, le pays compte 55 **minorités** ethniques, lesquelles représentent 100 millions de personnes, soit 8 % de la population. ([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 20568699) ## grande Used about 357 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 285 · legal and administrative ≈ 72). - Quite correctly, he notes that the **majority** of the EU's budget is administered in the Member States. Il remarque tout à fait à juste titre que la plus **grande** partie du budget de l'UE est gérée au sein des États membres. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 309563) - The **majority** of the Agency staff should be directly engaged in the operational implementation of the Agency’s mandate. La plus **grande** partie des effectifs de l’Agence devrait se consacrer directement à la mise en œuvre opérationnelle du mandat de l’Agence. ([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 2941373) - In offices, schools and homes we all spend the overwhelming **majority** of our time in enclosed spaces. Dans les bureaux, les écoles et les maisons, nous passons tous, de loin, la plus **grande** partie de notre temps à l'intérieur. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1128216) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Christians are the **majority** in France. Les chrétiens sont majoritaires en France. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#11790623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11790623) [\#8685018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8685018)) - She spends a **majority** of her time taking care of her children. Elle consacre l'essentiel de son temps à s'occuper de ses enfants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#909557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909557) [\#1403217](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1403217)) - It is safe to wager that every public idea and every accepted convention is foolish because it has suited the **majority**. Il y a à parier que toute idée publique, toute convention reçue, est une sottise, car elle a convenu au plus grand nombre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1497964](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1497964) [\#711241](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/711241)) ## 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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