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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10619361](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10619361) [\#10888154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10888154)) - She had only had many **mothers**, in the plural. Elle n'avait eu que beaucoup de **mères** au pluriel. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19285) - We are orphans and fatherless. Our **mothers** are as widows. Nous sommes orphelins, sans père; Nos **mères** sont comme des veuves. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 5:3) - **Mothers** have always worked. Les **mères** de famille ont toujours travaillé. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1820553) - Benefit increase for **mothers** Majoration annuités pour **mère** de famille ([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 822837) ## enceintes Used about 882 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 880). - But woe to those who are with child and to nursing **mothers** in those days! Malheur aux femmes qui seront **enceintes** et à celles qui allaiteront en ces jours-là! ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 24:19) - Information campaigns could be launched in the form of leaflets (to be given, for example, to pregnant **mothers** by midwives, or to parents by paediatric doctors) or presentations in schools. Les campagnes d’information pourraient être lancées par la distribution de dépliants (qui seraient remis, par exemple, par les sages-femmes aux femmes **enceintes** ou par les pédiatres aux parents) ainsi que des présentations dans les écoles. ([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 3778432) - Expectant **mothers** given prenatal care = 2,250 :: Nombre de femmes **enceintes** ayant bénéficié de soins prénatals : 2 250 ([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 17217612) - 227. The Women ' s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF) continues to offer a rescue programme for pregnant teenage **mothers** whose schooling is interrupted due to unplanned pregnancy. La Women ' s Center of Jamaica Foundation propose toujours un programme de rattrapage pour les jeunes adolescentes **enceintes** dont la scolarité est interrompue par une grossesse non désirée. ([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 24239534) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing **mothers**. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.” Des rois seront tes nourriciers, et leurs princesses tes nourrices; Ils se prosterneront devant toi la face contre terre, Et ils lécheront la poussière de tes pieds, Et tu sauras que je suis l’Éternel, Et que ceux qui espèrent en moi ne seront point confus. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 49:23) - as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of **mothers**, for manslayers, sachant bien que la loi n’est pas faite pour le juste, mais pour les méchants et les rebelles, les impies et les pécheurs, les irréligieux et les profanes, les parricides, les meurtriers, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 1:9) - These **mothers** and their children have to resort to begging in the streets of Moscow. Ces femmes et ces enfants deviennent des mendiants à Moscou. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1732620) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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