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# movement — English to French

How English *movement* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: movement (103 040), movements (29 575). By style: everyday 43 · literary 65 · parliamentary 9 090 · legal and administrative 15 396 · UN documents 108 021.

## mouvements

Used about 88 493 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 54 · parliamentary ≈ 4 356 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 783 · UN documents ≈ 74 264). Forms: mouvement, mouvements.

- **Movements** have results.
  Les **mouvements** ont des résultats.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11528732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11528732) [\#11528736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11528736))

- Marius made a **movement**.
  Marius fit un **mouvement**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24810)

- This does not imply promoting mass **movements** across the European Union.
  Elle n’inclut pas la promotion de **mouvements** de masse à travers l’Union.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 797813)

- Excluded goods and **movements**
  Biens et **mouvements** exclus
  ([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 2079438)

- on the Control of Transboundary **Movements** of
  des **mouvements** transfrontières de déchets
  ([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 12856704)

## circulation

Used about 12 129 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 651 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 726 · UN documents ≈ 6 751).

- Freedom of **movement** and residence for EU citizens
  Liberté de **circulation** et de séjour des citoyens de l'Union
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 418687)

- **Movement** certificates EUR.1 or EUR-MED issued retrospectively
  Certificats de **circulation** des marchandises EUR.1 ou EUR-MED délivrés a posteriori
  ([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 26537)

- E. Freedom of **movement**
  E. Liberté de **circulation**
  ([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 8097159)

- (ET) The objective of the Schengen area is freedom of **movement**.
  (ET) L'objectif de l'espace Schengen est la libre **circulation**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1353370)

- Procedure for the issue of a **movement** certificate EUR.1 or EUR-MED
  Procédure de délivrance d'un certificat de **circulation** des marchandises EUR.1 ou EUR-MED
  ([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 21541)

## non

Used about 1 125 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 125).

- NON-ALIGNED **MOVEMENT**: OPEN-ENDED
  **NON**-ALIGNED MOVEMENT: OPEN-ENDED
  ([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 2120435)

## More sentences

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

- He lay without **movement**.
  Il était étendu immobile.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#290084](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/290084) [\#4602603](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4602603))

- Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple **movement** of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
  Comme l’eau, comme le gaz, comme le courant électrique viennent de loin dans nos demeures répondre à nos besoins moyennant un effort quasi nul, ainsi serons-nous alimentés d’images visuelles ou auditives, naissant et s’évanouissant au moindre geste, presque à un signe.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#392478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/392478) [\#392477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/392477))

- I suspect Eldad is tracking my **movements**.
  Je soupçonne Eldad de suivre mes faits et gestes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Babelball and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#12067474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12067474) [\#566593](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/566593))

## 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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