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([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)) - 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) - 30. Guam is a duty-free port that facilitates the movement of raw **materials** for manufacturing. Guam, port franc, facilite le mouvement des **matières** premières destinées à la fabrication. ([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 7756631) - Japan is lacking in raw **materials**. Le Japon manque de **matières** premières. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#281484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281484) [\#331058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/331058)) ## matériaux Used about 27 432 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 809 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 799 · UN documents ≈ 20 800). - 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) - The potential for biogas recovered from natural **materials** such as annual manure has still not been fully exploited. Le potentiel de biogaz récupérable à partir de **matériaux** naturels tels que le fumier annuel n'est pas encore exploité entièrement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1049796) - Waste collection, treatment and disposal services; **materials** recovery services Collecte, traitement et élimination des déchets; récupération de **matériaux** ([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 1545077) - **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) ## produits Used about 2 378 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 644 · UN documents ≈ 1 733). - Roofing and facing products, of asphalt or of similar **materials**, in rolls Articles de revêtement, en asphalte ou en **produits** similaires, en rouleaux ([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 226034) - Other legislation/regulations controlling chemical **materials** Autres lois et règlements sur le contrôle des **produits** chimiques ([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 16022101) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The novelist gathered **materials** for his work. Le romancier a rassemblé des documents pour son travail. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and JnRouvignac · checked, community translation · [\#46506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/46506) [\#431017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/431017)) - Can you tell us about your experience in developing technical **materials**? Pouvez-vous nous parler de votre expérience dans le développement de matériel technique ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pandark and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#688555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/688555) [\#688585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/688585)) - I have not yet collected sufficient **materials** to write a book. Je n'ai pas encore réuni suffisamment de contenu pour écrire un livre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by emmettricks and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#1159257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1159257) [\#1856765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1856765)) ## 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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