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Forms: joue, jouent, jouer. - He **plays** the piano. Il **joue** du piano. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#2665952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2665952) [\#2860203](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2860203)) - “**Play**!” said Jean Valjean. --**Joue**, dit Jean Valjean. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9420) - There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to **play** there. Là se promènent les navires, Et ce léviathan que tu as formé pour se **jouer** dans les flots. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 104:26) - Is he going to **play** the lottery or what? Il va **jouer** au loto ou quoi? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1458320) - Digital content **plays** an important role in that evolution. Le contenu numérique **joue** un rôle important dans cette évolution. ([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 4869786) ## rôle Used about 14 082 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 902 · legal and administrative ≈ 636 · UN documents ≈ 9 545). - Mr President, two factors **play** a role in this proposal. Monsieur le Président, deux éléments jouent un **rôle** dans cette proposition. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 166613) - These projects will **play** a crucial role in finding new solutions. Ces projets joueront un **rôle** crucial dans la recherche de nouvelles solutions. ([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 535163) - 60. Women **play** a critical role in the family. Les femmes jouent un **rôle** prépondérant dans la famille. ([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 7050926) - It is not only sport that has a potential role to **play** here, however; Pourtant, le sport n’est pas le seul à avoir un **rôle** potentiel à jouer dans ce cadre. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 785172) - European and national social partners should **play** a central role. Les partenaires sociaux européens et nationaux devraient jouer un **rôle** de premier plan. ([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 571932) ## important Used about 734 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 734). - In this regard, regional and subregional cooperation **plays** an important role in sharing expertise and promoting space and geographic information system applications for disaster risk reduction and management. In this regard, regional and subregional cooperation plays an **important** role in sharing expertise and promoting space and geographic information system applications for disaster risk reduction and management. ([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 28246842) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Since when do you **play** chess? Depuis quand jouez-vous aux échecs ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10314597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10314597) [\#10314602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10314602)) - Don't **play** with matches. Ne jouez pas avec les allumettes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Maxence · checked, community translation · [\#2270517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2270517) [\#7700487](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7700487)) - You **play** the piano, don't you? Tu joues du piano, n'est-ce pas ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sicerabibax · checked, community translation · [\#3330887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3330887) [\#4818589](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4818589)) ## 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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