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Forms: peine, peines. - You favour the death **penalty**? Tu es pour la **peine** de mort ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#10603687](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10603687) [\#10603671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10603671)) - The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has deigned to commute his **penalty** to that of penal servitude for life. Le roi, dans son inépuisable clémence, a daigné commuer sa **peine** en celle des travaux forcés à perpétuité. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7795) - A hot-tempered man must pay the **penalty**, for if you rescue him, you must do it again. Celui que la colère emporte doit en subir la **peine**; Car si tu le libères, tu devras y revenir. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 19:19) - **Penalties** must suddenly get stricter. Nous devons alourdir les **peines** sur-le-champ. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 843904) - Expulsion as a **penalty** or legal consequence Éloignement à titre de **peine** ou de mesure accessoire ([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 424024) ## sanctions Used about 22 169 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 468 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 271 · UN documents ≈ 15 428). Forms: sanction, sanctions. - Latecomers are subject to a **penalty**. Les retardataires sont passibles de **sanctions**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10650071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10650071) [\#10659990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10659990)) - It seeks to approximate laws with common minimum **penalties**. Elle cherche à rapprocher les législations avec des **sanctions** communes minimales. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 288769) - Calculation of cash **penalties** Calcul des **sanctions** pécuniaires ([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 4274641) - Suspension and termination of contract and **penalties** Suspension, résiliation et **sanctions** ([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 7369633) - Another new aspect is that there has been some increase in the possible **penalties**. Un autre nouvel aspect est l’augmentation du nombre de **sanctions** possibles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 767757) ## mort Used about 2 323 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 652 · UN documents ≈ 671). - The **penalty** is death. La sentence est la **mort**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4494721](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4494721) [\#7967034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7967034)) - Death **penalty** in the United States Peine de **mort** aux États-Unis ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 42726) - New Australian Federal Police guidelines governing police-to-police assistance in possible death **penalty** cases took effect on 18 December 2009. Les nouvelles directives de la Police fédérale australienne régissant l ' entraide policière dans les cas de possible condamnation à **mort** ont pris effet le 18 décembre 2009. ([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 21687250) - Slandering the gods was punished with the death **penalty**. L'outrage aux divinités impliquait la peine de **mort**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1862728) - I think it is paragraph 48 that refers to the death **penalty**. Je pense que c'est le paragraphe 48 qui porte sur la peine de **mort**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1268105) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The referee gave a **penalty**. L'arbitre a sifflé un penalty. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11818449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11818449) [\#10659984](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10659984)) - The **penalty** was missed. Le pénalty a été raté. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#863168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/863168) [\#862750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/862750)) - He missed the **penalty**. Il a raté le penalty. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and GuillaumeR · checked, community translation · [\#10314428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10314428) [\#11220995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11220995)) ## 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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