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# move — English to French

How English *move* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [move in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/move/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: move (44 874), moves (4 890). By style: everyday 538 · literary 5 · biblical 33 · parliamentary 10 089 · legal and administrative 2 329 · UN documents 36 770.

## lorsque

Used about 3 415 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 315 · legal and administrative ≈ 412 · UN documents ≈ 2 681).

- When each side has only the king and some pawns, you need to calculate **moves** carefully to promote a pawn before your opponent.
  **Lorsque** chaque camp n'a que le roi et quelques pions, vous devez calculer soigneusement les mouvements pour promouvoir un pion avant votre adversaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10285698](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10285698) [\#10285709](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10285709))

- But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, **move** up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
  Mais, **lorsque** tu seras invité, va te mettre à la dernière place, afin que, quand celui qui t’a invité viendra, il te dise: Mon ami, monte plus haut. Alors cela te fera honneur devant tous ceux qui seront à table avec toi.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 14:10)

- When things start to **move** along I will certainly come to this House to keep you informed of progress, Mr President.
  **Lorsque** l'affaire sera en bonne voie, je passerai bien sûr devant votre Parlement, Monsieur le Président, pour vous informer.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 75703)

- ρ′ characteristic of the brake when the trailer **moves** forward as defined from:
  ρ′ caractéristique du frein **lorsque** la remorque avance, définie par:
  ([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 5480140)

- when the trailer **moves** rearward (shall not be greater than: sr)
  **lorsque** la remorque fait marche arrière (ne doit pas être supérieur à sr)
  ([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 19251274)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- The dancer's every **move** was perfect.
  Tous les mouvements du danseur étaient parfaits.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cindrogriza and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#818084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/818084) [\#1335771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1335771))

- Fear is an adversary that one must face to **move** forward.
  La peur est un ennemi qu'il faut affronter pour avancer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12778845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12778845) [\#12778843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12778843))

- Let's get a **move** on. We've got no time to lose.
  Dépêchons-nous ! Nous n'avons pas de temps à perdre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Petro1 · checked, community translation · [\#10890946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10890946) [\#9286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9286))

## 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/).

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