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Cela est d'aspect **ordinaire**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wuzzy and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4170301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4170301) [\#4170693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4170693)) - He went for the armchairs and restored them to their **ordinary** place near the hearth. Il alla chercher les fauteuils, et les remit à leur place **ordinaire** près de la cheminée. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31139) - Why do **ordinary** Cubans take such risks? Pourquoi les citoyens cubains **ordinaires** prennent-ils de tels risques? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 595650) - Acting in accordance with the **ordinary** legislative procedure, statuant conformément à la procédure législative **ordinaire**, ([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 4734499) - Judgment shall be given as in **ordinary** cases. Le jugement est rendu comme dans une affaire **ordinaire**. ([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 20455812) ## citoyens Used about 530 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 150 · UN documents ≈ 381). - Where is the security which the **ordinary** people have been promised? Où est la sécurité promise aux **citoyens**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1728291) - Their efforts have made an important contribution to improving the lives of **ordinary** Iraqis. Par leurs efforts, ils ont beaucoup contribué à l ' amélioration des conditions d ' existence des **citoyens** iraquiens. ([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 21324254) - How can monetary policy meet **ordinary** people's expectations? Comment la politique monétaire peut-elle répondre aux attentes des **citoyens**? En quoi peut-elle répondre à ces attentes? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1725200) - If it is a priority for **ordinary** citizens, then it must be a priority for the Heads of State or Government. Si c'est une priorité des **citoyens**, ce doit être une priorité des chefs d'État et de gouvernement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1903263) - But as well as betraying the EU/EOM and **ordinary** Pakistanis, you are also betraying the ideals of your own Presidency. Mais tout en trahissant la MOE de l'UE ainsi que les **citoyens** pakistanais, ce sont également les idéaux de votre propre présidence que vous trahissez. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 390196) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Wise men talk about ideas, intellectuals about facts, and the **ordinary** man talks about what he eats. Les sages s'entretiennent des idées, les intellectuels des faits, et le commun des mortels, de ce qu'ils mangent. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gracehero and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#556768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/556768) [\#570263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/570263)) - I am just an **ordinary** girl. Je n'ai rien d'extraordinaire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by oliviya and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4004981](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4004981) [\#4005150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4005150)) - Nothing out of the **ordinary** happened. Rien d'extraordinaire n'est survenu. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2930086](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2930086) [\#4563170](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4563170)) ## 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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