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Forms: moyen, moyenne, moyennes. - The aardvark is a **medium**-sized animal. L'oryctérope est un animal de taille **moyenne**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#6304675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6304675) [\#6304693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6304693)) - One area stands out: the small and **medium**-sized enterprise sector. Un secteur se distingue: les petites et **moyennes** entreprises. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1762362) - Durum wheat, **medium** quality \[2\] Blé dur, qualité **moyenne** \[2\] ([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 1858569) - sound technologies to small and **medium**-sized enterprises . 68 - 82 16 petites et **moyennes** entreprises 68 - 82 19 ([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 2917402) - It was a person of **medium** build and height. C'était une personne de corpulence et de taille **moyennes**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by terrywallwork and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13706614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13706614) [\#14021151](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14021151)) ## terme Used about 14 450 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 14 450). - **Medium**-term plan for the period 2002-2005 Plan à moyen **terme** pour la période 2002-2005 ([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 10617645) - **Medium**-Term Strategic Plan (MTSP) Plan stratégique à moyen **terme** Conseil d ' administration ([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 26586760) - 2 (g) **Medium**-term programme framework, 2006-2009 2 g) Cadre de programmation à moyen **terme** 2006-2009 ([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 12374078) - 4 (c) **Medium**-term programme framework, 2000-2003 4 c) Cadre de programmation à moyen **terme**, 2000-2003 ([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 6451138) - 2. Proposed **medium**-term plan for the period 2002-2005 2. Projet de plan à moyen **terme** pour la période 2002-2005 ([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 7594980) ## plan Used about 556 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 556). - E. Report on thematic funding in support of the **medium**-term strategic plan Rapport sur le financement par thème au titre du **plan** stratégique ([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 15344822) ## petites Used about 133 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 133). - Smaller and **medium**-sized towns are measured against towns with populations in excess of 50 000. Les **petites** villes et les villes de taille moyenne sont jugées à l'étalon d'un chiffre de population de plus de 50 000 habitants. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1998711) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I want my steak **medium**-well, not well-done. Je veux mon bifteck à point, pas bien cuit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BoriQa and BoriQa · checked, community translation · [\#2507090](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2507090) [\#2507124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2507124)) - Humans accomplish amazing things, because they can exchange information about their knowledge and intentions via the **medium** of language. Les êtres humains accomplissent des choses extraordinaires, car ils peuvent échanger des informations sur leurs connaissances et leurs intentions grâce au langage. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by al\_ex\_an\_der and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#4801952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4801952) [\#13760075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13760075)) - Have you heard that a psychic dwarf just escaped from prison? There's a small **medium** at large! Avez-vous entendu dire que ce voyant nain s'est échappé de prison ? Il y a un petit médium en liberté ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by madhatter5 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1540433](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1540433) [\#1541030](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1541030)) ## 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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