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Ce mot a deux **sens**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Archibald · checked, community translation · [\#57975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/57975) [\#444656](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/444656)) - Cosette felt rather than understood the **meaning** of these words. Cosette sentit le **sens** de ce mot plus encore qu'elle ne le comprit. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22241) - If then I don’t know the **meaning** of the language, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me. si donc je ne connais pas le **sens** de la langue, je serai un barbare pour celui qui parle, et celui qui parle sera un barbare pour moi. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:11) - Otherwise it has no **meaning**. Autrement cela n'a pas de **sens**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1657175) - Existence of aid within the **meaning** of the EC Treaty Existence d'une aide au **sens** du traité CE ([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 562074) ## signification Used about 12 522 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 81 · parliamentary ≈ 284 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 791 · UN documents ≈ 6 365). Forms: signification, significations. - This word has two **meanings**. Ce mot a deux **significations**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#57975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/57975) [\#1278444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1278444)) - (SK) Terrorism has no values, nor does it have any deeper **meaning**. (SK) Le terrorisme n'a pas de valeur ni de **signification** plus profonde. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1342314) - The following terms have the **meanings** set forth below: Les termes et expressions qui suivent ont la **signification** ci-dessous: ([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 158011) - The term " fraud " has two **meanings**. Le terme " fraude " a deux **significations**. ([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 17412209) - The **meaning** doesn't change. La **signification** ne change pas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11327841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11327841) [\#11341360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11341360)) ## termes Used about 1 491 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 52 · legal and administrative ≈ 207 · UN documents ≈ 1 232). - Quite importantly, they pay the largest share of taxes into our budgets, **meaning** that it is largely they who sustain bureaucratic administrations. Non moins important, elles renflouent nos budgets en acquittant la plus grande part des taxes, en d'autres **termes**, ce sont surtout elles qui soutiennent les administrations bureaucratiques. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1512779) - Wherever used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the **meanings** opposite them: Aux fins du présent accord, les **termes** ci-après sont définis de la manière suivante: ([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 3155505) - The basic terms used in this Act shall have the following **meanings**: Les principaux **termes** employés dans la loi sont définis comme suit : ([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 14173520) - The terms 'regions' and 'regionalisation' have widely differing **meanings** in the 15 Member States, and carrying these differences through into an area like fisheries and the common fisheries policy means that, in my opinion, the report lacks clarity. I would even go so far as to say that it is contradictory and that it sheds very little light on fisheries and on the future common fisheries policy, where light is sorely needed. Régions et régionalisation sont des **termes** dont le contenu diffère dans les 15 États membres, et le fait de les utiliser dans un domaine comme celui de la pêche et de la PCP rend, selon moi, le rapport confus - je dirais même contradictoire - et fait qu'il ne jette la lumière que sur une faible partie de la question, chose dont la pêche et la future PCP ont pourtant tellement besoin. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1961256) - Even within a single Department, those terms can have different **meanings**. Ces **termes** peuvent même donner lieu à des interprétations divergentes dans un même département. ([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 15371925) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - A convert to Judaism is called a "ger" or "gioret," **meaning** a "foreigner" who joins the Jewish people. Une personne qui se convertit au judaïsme s'appelle un ger ou une gioret, ce qui signifie un étranger ou une étrangère qui se joint au peuple juif. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#10092275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10092275) [\#10092714](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10092714)) - What's the **meaning** of this phrase? Que signifie cette phrase ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#7784959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7784959) [\#571262](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/571262)) - The colour green **meaning** jealousy isn't international. La couleur verte n'est pas symbole de jalousie dans tous les pays. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4625110](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4625110) [\#4890992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4890992)) ## 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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