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Forms: question, questions. - It's a **matter** of principle. C'est une **question** de principe. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#3596980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3596980) [\#3597064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3597064)) - The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no **matter** of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.” Les Gabaonites lui répondirent: Ce n’est pas pour nous une **question** d’argent et d’or avec Saül et avec sa maison, et ce n’est pas à nous qu’il appartient de faire mourir personne en Israël. Et le roi dit: Que voulez-vous donc que je fasse pour vous? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 21:4) - You referred to energy **matters**. Vous avez fait référence aux **questions** énergétiques. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1427173) - The Committee may consider any **matter** related to this Agreement. Le comité se prononce sur toute **question** relative au présent accord. ([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 864509) - Country programmes and related **matters** Programmes de pays et **questions** connexes ([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 27879210) ## matière Used about 33 785 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 420 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 293 · UN documents ≈ 26 066). - A **matter** for declamations, say the clever. **Matière** à déclamations, disent les habiles. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10925) - If there arises a **matter** too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being **matters** of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses. Si une cause relative à un meurtre, à un différend, à une blessure, te paraît trop difficile à juger et fournit **matière** à contestation dans tes portes, tu te lèveras et tu monteras au lieu que l’Éternel, ton Dieu, choisira. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 17:8) - A lax attitude on the **matter** only benefits fraudsters. Le laxisme en la **matière** ne profite qu'aux fraudeurs. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 873266) - EUR/100 kg dry **matter** EUR/100 kg de **matière** sèche ([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 1251091) - International cooperation in tax **matters** Coopération internationale en **matière** fiscale ([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 22596825) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - No **matter** how rich you are, you can't buy true love. Qu'importe combien on est riche, on ne peut acquérir le véritable amour. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1449843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1449843) [\#1450077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1450077)) - No **matter** what happens, I'll support you. Quoi qu'il arrive, je te soutiendrai. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3748312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3748312) [\#841726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/841726)) - No **matter** how much I consider it I do not understand. J'ai beau y réfléchir, je ne comprends pas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and kurisutofu · checked, community translation · [\#119888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/119888) [\#6014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6014)) ## 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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