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# movements — English to French

How English *movements* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: movements (29 575). By style: everyday 16 · literary 12 · parliamentary 1 300 · legal and administrative 3 893 · UN documents 24 354.

## mouvements

Used about 21 995 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 975 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 244 · UN documents ≈ 17 758).

- **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))

- The Thénardier made one of those **movements** of surprise which signify neither assent nor refusal.
  La Thénardier eut un de ces **mouvements** surpris qui ne sont ni le consentement ni le refus.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3386)

- 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)

## contrôle

Used about 27 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 27).

- Nevertheless, we also still have the problem - and this too has already been mentioned - that this Code is insufficient to ensure proper surveillance of arms **movements**.
  Il reste pourtant, et cela aussi a déjà été dit, que ce code est insuffisant pour permettre un véritable **contrôle** des itinéraires empruntés par les armes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 502675)

## More sentences

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

- This security system allows us to trace employees **movements** anywhere they go.
  Ce système de sécurité nous permet de suivre le mouvement des employés partout où ils vont.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and marioo · checked, community translation · [\#3859829](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3859829) [\#8735561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8735561))

- 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))

- Don't make any sudden **movements**.
  Ne faites pas de gestes brusques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#9227388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9227388) [\#12657697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12657697))

## 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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