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Il y a de nombreuses **questions** urgentes à régler. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4474916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4474916) [\#8606483](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8606483)) - 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) - such information concerns **matters** of public security or national security; ces informations ont trait à des **questions** de sécurité publique ou nationale; ([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 3466177) - 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) - These issues should be **matters** of national competence. Ces **questions** devraient relever de la compétence nationale. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1267699) ## matière Used about 19 979 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 420 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 419 · UN documents ≈ 17 139). - 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) - Nothing will be imposed on them that contravenes their national legislation on ethical **matters**. Rien ne leur sera imposé qui contrevienne à leur législation nationale en **matière** d'éthique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 921555) - CERTIFICATE CONCERNING A JUDGMENT IN CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL **MATTERS** CERTIFICAT RELATIF À UNE DÉCISION EN **MATIÈRE** CIVILE ET COMMERCIALE ([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 3598666) - 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) - The EU must give a good example in such **matters** and, for example, provide greater support and encouragement for organic farming. L’UE doit donner l’exemple en la **matière**, notamment en soutenant et en favorisant davantage l’agriculture biologique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 823874) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - It **matters** not how many books one reads, but which books. L'important n'est pas combien de livres, mais quels livres vous lisez. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by adamtrousers and RaspaKrusto · checked, community translation · [\#3528121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3528121) [\#824196](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/824196)) - The journey **matters** more than the destination. Le chemin est plus important que la destination. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and davidcfres · checked, community translation · [\#5211428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5211428) [\#5211382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5211382)) - Tom and I love each other and that's the only thing that **matters**. Tom et moi nous aimons et c'est tout ce qui importe ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and theachaean · checked, community translation · [\#7129870](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7129870) [\#7485986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7485986)) ## 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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