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Amiens est au **nord** de Paris. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3259545](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259545) [\#3259544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259544)) - "Unless, indeed, this is the **North** Pole!" —A moins que ceci ne soit le pôle **nord**! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 4004) - Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the **north**. L’ouragan vient du midi, Et le froid, des vents du **nord**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 37:9) - In **North** America it is less than 5%. Ainsi, en Amérique du **Nord**, il est inférieur à 5 %. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1079578) - Small-scale fishing in the **north** Pêche artisanale au **nord** ([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 4925275) ## sud Used about 1 434 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 1 433). - Finally, far away to the east, Vincennes, and its seven quadrangular towers to the south, Bicêtre and its pointed turrets; to the **north**, Saint-Denis and its spire; to the west, Saint Cloud and its donjon keep. Enfin, au loin, à l'orient, Vincennes et ses sept tours quadrangulaires; au **sud**, Bicêtre et ses tourelles pointues; au septentrion, Saint-Denis et son aiguille; à l'occident, Saint-Cloud et son donjon. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1971) - It entered over Naqurah flying **north** and circled the South before leaving over Naqurah. Il a dessiné une boucle au-dessus des régions du **sud**, avant de repartir en survolant Naqoura. ([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 19766301) ## ouest Used about 1 433 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 433). - Montrose Basin, to the west of a line running **north**-south across the harbour entrance at Scurdie Ness Lighthouse Montrose Basin, à l ' **ouest** d ' une ligne orientée nordsud passant par l ' entrée du port au phare de Scurdie Ness ([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 17321072) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I love Fist of the **North** Star! J'adore Ken le survivant ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by contour and nekouma · checked, community translation · [\#534879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/534879) [\#534906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/534906)) - My friend is **North** African. Mon ami est maghrébin. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12976300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976300) [\#12976287](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976287)) - My friend is **North** African. Mon amie est maghrébine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12976300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976300) [\#12976289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12976289)) ## 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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