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By style: everyday 472 · literary 2 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 1 280 · legal and administrative 659 · UN documents 28 520. ## âgées Used about 18 090 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 587 · legal and administrative ≈ 41 · UN documents ≈ 17 461). - and that **older** women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, Dis que les femmes **âgées** doivent aussi avoir l’extérieur qui convient à la sainteté, n’être ni médisantes, ni adonnées au vin; qu’elles doivent donner de bonnes instructions, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · TIT 2:3) - Enhancing the quality of life of **older** people ( Amélioration de la qualité de vie des personnes **âgées** ( ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1052946) - Specific attention should be paid to the younger and **older** members of the population. Les personnes plus jeunes et plus **âgées** doivent faire l’objet d’une attention particulière. ([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 1431705) - The Commissioner is a champion for **older** people. La Commissaire défend les droits des personnes **âgées**. ([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 25787651) - **Older** people should be seen as an asset. Les personnes **âgées** devraient être considérées comme un avantage. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1429943) ## âgés Used about 3 356 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 160 · legal and administrative ≈ 275 · UN documents ≈ 2 910). - The **older** children helped the younger ones. Les enfants les plus **âgés** aidaient les plus jeunes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3250943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3250943) [\#3251614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3251614)) - Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were **older** than he. Comme ils étaient plus **âgés** que lui, Élihu avait attendu jusqu’à ce moment pour parler à Job. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 32:4) - So it is important to remove the **older** animals. Il est donc important d'éliminer les animaux plus **âgés**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 154735) - calves are **older** than fourteen days, les veaux sont **âgés** de plus de quatorze jours, ([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 629150) - Children age 12 or **older** are usually present in court. Les enfants **âgés** de 12 ans ou plus sont généralement présents au tribunal. ([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 9122651) ## ans Used about 3 146 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 98 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 27 · legal and administrative ≈ 110 · UN documents ≈ 2 910). - Bill is two years **older** than I. Bill a deux **ans** de plus que moi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and hirymnak · checked, community translation · [\#34502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/34502) [\#14176](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14176)) - Fantine had grown ten years **older** since the preceding night. Fantine depuis la veille avait vieilli de dix **ans**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4107) - "An **older** man who was about 60 added: "I only received EUR 20 000" . Un monsieur plus âgé, d'environ 60 **ans**, a ajouté : "Moi, je n'ai reçu que 20 000 euros." ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 58016) - Young children: Children **older** than 36 months and younger than 8 years Jeunes enfants: entre 36 mois et 8 **ans** ([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 1969515) - Population aged 15 years or **older** by religion and by region Répartition de la population âgée de 15 **ans** et plus, par religion, par région ([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 28302400) ## personnes Used about 27 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 27). - On 26 March, those same people, in that same country, 18 months **older** and wiser, posed themselves the question as to how to win the peace. Le 26 mars, ces mêmes **personnes**, dans ce même pays, riches de 18 mois de sagesse en plus, se sont posé la question de savoir comment gagner la paix. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 802896) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - As we grow **older**, our memory becomes weaker. Plus nous grandissons, plus notre mémoire faillit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#282173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/282173) [\#129836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129836)) - I've kept my weight down even though many of my friends have gained weight as they've grown **older**. J'ai contenu mon poids alors même que beaucoup de mes amies en ont gagné tandis qu'elles prenaient de l'âge. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2396202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2396202) [\#2400032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2400032)) - He's **older** than your father! Il est plus vieux que ton père ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and maydoo · checked, community translation · [\#2343200](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2343200) [\#3503704](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3503704)) ## 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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