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Forms: matériaux, matériel. - I prefer plain **materials**. Je préfère les **matériaux** simples. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2267088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2267088) [\#5600946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5600946)) - The lower chambers were, in fact, full of **materials**. Les chambres inférieures étaient en effet pleines de **matériaux**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7101) - Therefore, I took the shortest route for my consignment of radioactive **material**." Alors, moi, j'ai emprunté la route la plus courte pour transporter ce **matériel** radioactif". ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 167691) - Of which Number of consignments with compliant wood packaging **material** dont le nombre d'envois pour lesquels le **matériel** d'emballage en bois est conforme ([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 4526707) - **Materials** used and methods of construction: 9.2 **Matériaux** utilisés et méthodes de construction: ([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 28240739) ## matières Used about 56 609 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 771 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 746 · UN documents ≈ 27 078). - I prefer plain **materials**. Je préfère les **matières** simples. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2267088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2267088) [\#5600947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5600947)) - No violence accompanied this change; the matter thrown out was in vast quantities, and the liquid **material** oozing out from the abysses of the earth slowly spread in extensive plains or in hillocky masses. Le phénomène s'accomplissait alors sans violence; l'issue était énorme, et les **matières** fondues, rejetées des entrailles du globe, s'étendirent tranquillement en vastes nappes ou en masses mamelonnées. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1292) - Renewable raw **materials** will now come from agriculture. Aujourd'hui, les **matières** renouvelables proviennent de l'agriculture. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1754557) - Of synthetic textile **materials** en **matières** textiles synthétiques ([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 4696249) - Duration of the future fissile **material** cut-off treaty Durée du futur traité sur l ' arrêt de la production de **matières** fissiles ([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 28488516) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - This piece is made of a composite **material** that I cannot identify. Cette pièce est faite d'un matériau composite que je ne parviens pas à identifier. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8657777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8657777) [\#8755945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8755945)) - We could discuss the advantages of clay as basic sculpting **material**. On pourrait discuter des avantages de l’argile comme matériau de base en sculpture. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13855370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13855370) [\#12701763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12701763)) - Studies say that true happiness comes from giving back, not from **material** things. Des études montrent que le bonheur véritable prend sa source dans le don en retour, pas dans les choses matérielles. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4345950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4345950) [\#4404514](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4404514)) ## 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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