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Elle a aidé la société civile au Proche-**Orient**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1517896) - Near and **Middle** East Proche et Moyen-**Orient** ([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 544355) - **Middle** East and North Africa Moyen-**Orient** et Afrique du Nord ([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 5708036) - The **Middle** East, Latin America in particular, and an allusion to Israel. Le Proche-**Orient**, l'Amérique latine en particulier, et une allusion à Israël. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1328621) - Near and **Middle** East Proche- et Moyen-**Orient** ([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 3097531) ## milieu Used about 2 212 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 119 · literary ≈ 30 · biblical ≈ 210 · parliamentary ≈ 215 · legal and administrative ≈ 258 · UN documents ≈ 1 381). - The **middle** one is mine. Celle du **milieu** est à moi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3168161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3168161) [\#6287744](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6287744)) - Towards the **middle** of the night Jean Valjean woke. Vers le **milieu** de la nuit, Jean Valjean se réveilla. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1846) - He let them fall in the **middle** of their camp, around their habitations. Il les fit tomber au **milieu** de leur camp, Tout autour de leurs demeures. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 78:28) - I, like many of my fellow members, are worried about wrapping this up in 2004 in the **middle** of the European election campaign. Comme plusieurs de mes collègues, je m'inquiète de clôturer cela au **milieu** de l'année 2004, en pleine campagne électorale. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 170425) - one in the **middle** of the ramp; une au **milieu** de la rampe; ([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 5478046) ## paix Used about 113 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 108). - For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the **middle** wall of separation, Car il est notre **paix**, lui qui des deux n’en a fait qu’un, et qui a renversé le mur de séparation, l’inimitié, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 2:14) - The next item is statements by the Council and the Commission on the peace process in the **Middle** East, followed by a debate. L'ordre du jour appelle les déclarations du Conseil et de la Commission sur le processus de **paix** au MoyenOrient, suivies d'un débat. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1858063) ## moyen Used about 100 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 8 · legal and administrative ≈ 76). - She was a **middle**-aged woman. C'était une femme d'âge **moyen**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2788502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2788502) [\#4617911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4617911)) - Of these divers places he is voyer, high, **middle**, and low, justiciary, full seigneur.” De ces divers endroits il est voyer, haut, **moyen** et bas justicier, plein seigneur. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7594) - Hydrocarbons, C16-20, hydrotreated **middle** distillate, distn. lights; Hydrocarbures en C16-20, distillat **moyen** hydrotraité, fraction légère de distillation; ([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 4623992) - The **Middle** Ages is the most interesting epoch in my opinion. Le **Moyen** Âge est selon moi l'époque la plus intéressante. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13931989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13931989) [\#13931990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13931990)) - The populace, especially in the **Middle** Ages, is in society what the child is in the family. Le peuple, au **moyen** âge surtout, est dans la société ce qu'est l'enfant dans la famille. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3478) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - In the **middle** of the city, there is a fountain. Au centre de la cité, se trouve une fontaine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by keira\_n and stephane · checked, community translation · [\#1078151](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1078151) [\#2863936](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2863936)) - The station is the **middle** of the city. La gare est dans le centre de la ville. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#26039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/26039) [\#136616](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136616)) - Coca-Cola invented Fanta, in the **middle** of the Second World War, for the German market. La société Coca-Cola inventa le Fanta, en pleine Seconde Guerre mondiale, pour le marché allemand. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by enteka and enteka · checked, community translation · [\#1411715](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1411715) [\#1411746](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1411746)) ## 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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