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Le **nombre** fait la force. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3238920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3238920) [\#12963263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12963263)) - The symbol is not the **number**. Le symbole n'est pas le **nombre**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2524) - He spoke, and the locusts came with the grasshoppers, without **number**. Il dit, et parurent les sauterelles, Des sauterelles sans **nombre**, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 105:34) - This **number** of licences is sufficient. Ce **nombre** de licences est suffisant. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 421464) - **Number** of working days checked **Nombre** de jours de travail contrôlés ([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 4177081) ## numéro Used about 107 280 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 309 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 286 · legal and administrative ≈ 35 607 · UN documents ≈ 70 074). Forms: numéro, numéros. - I know your **numbers**. Je connais vos **numéros**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Theocracy and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1508584](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1508584) [\#4686097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4686097)) - “What was the **number**?” --Quel est ce **numéro**? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16249) - In the EU, we have a very reliable and transparent system of E **numbers**. Le système d'enregistrement sous un **numéro** «E» que nous avons en Europe est très fiable et transparent. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1641893) - CAS **number**, EC **number**; **numéro** CAS, numéro CE; ([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 2902243) - 1. Listing of the various UN **numbers** concerned; 1. énumération des différents **numéros** ONU concernés, ([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 6756235) ## chiffres Used about 26 660 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 87 · parliamentary ≈ 3 215 · UN documents ≈ 23 358). - The **numbers** are staggering. Les **chiffres** sont stupéfiants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5737895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5737895) [\#9736284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9736284)) - The **numbers** alone should set our alarm bells ringing. Les **chiffres** alarmants devraient nous effrayer. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 141609) - However, the **numbers** are too small to draw any definite conclusions. Il n ' empêche que les **chiffres** auxquels on a affaire sont trop faibles pour permettre d ' en tirer de véritables conclusions. ([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 11745514) - Those **numbers** are staggering. Ces **chiffres** sont ahurissants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5734662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5734662) [\#12911008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12911008)) - Sadly, these shocking **numbers** will increase. Hélas, ces **chiffres** choquants sont encore appelés à augmenter. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1199188) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - An increasingly larger **number** of people get offended when you speak to them in English. De plus en plus de gens se sentent agressés quand on leur parle en anglais. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Anthaus · checked, community translation · [\#5287106](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5287106) [\#2520681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2520681)) - The attack killed a **number** of civilians and one serviceman. L'attaque a tué plusieurs civils et un militaire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11658392](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11658392) [\#11658921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11658921)) - The car's license plate **number** is "AAAA-000". La voiture est immatriculée AAAA-000. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13781939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13781939) [\#13781915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13781915)) ## 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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