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By style: everyday 4 · parliamentary 2 949 · legal and administrative 3 152 · UN documents 34 793. ## principalement Used about 11 983 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 61 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 773 · UN documents ≈ 10 148). - For a long time, society was strongly hierarchical and unequal, **primarily** composed of peasants. The most backward, impoverished segment of the population, they were crushed by the weight of taxes, wars, and famines. Il y a longtemps, la société était fortement hiérarchisée et inégalitaire, et la partie la plus pauvre de la population, arriérée, composée **principalement** par des paysans, était écrasée sous le poids des impôts, des guerres et des famines. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by awynands and Pharamp · checked, community translation · [\#796116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/796116) [\#671943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/671943)) - **Primarily** because the party which could help the most - Sinn Fein - is still more interested in protecting their own than seeing the killers brought to justice. **Principalement** parce que le parti susceptible de les aider le plus - le Sinn Fein - préfère toujours protéger les siens plutôt que de voir les meurtriers traduits en justice. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1015223) - The operations are **primarily** aimed at: Ces opérations visent **principalement** à: ([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 4774745) - 38. This improvement has affected **primarily** urban areas. 38. L ' amélioration reste **principalement** une affaire urbaine. ([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 12355381) - Other of a kind used **primarily** in pharmacy autres utilisées **principalement** en en médecine ([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 187062) ## essentiellement Used about 10 162 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 676 · legal and administrative ≈ 788 · UN documents ≈ 8 698). - Moreover, citizens continue to identify **primarily** with their own state. En outre, les citoyens continuent de s’identifier **essentiellement** à leur État. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 638265) - It consists **primarily** of the glycerides of the fatty acids linoleic, and oleic. Se composent **essentiellement** de glycérides des acides linoléique et oléique. ([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 1082206) - The commission relied **primarily** on first-hand accounts. La commission s ' est appuyée **essentiellement** sur des récits de première main. ([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 29162464) - It **primarily** serves to support developing countries, including the least developed ones. Il vise **essentiellement** à soutenir les pays en développement, et notamment les pays moins avancés. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1090184) - It shall be implemented **primarily** in a bottom-up manner through a continuously open call. Il sera **essentiellement** mis en œuvre sur une base ascendante, à partir d'un appel ouvert permanent. ([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 2828701) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - We suffer **primarily** not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. Nous souffrons surtout, non pas de nos vices ou de nos faiblesses, mais de nos illusions. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#418411](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/418411) [\#418436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/418436)) - Our goal is **primarily** educational. Notre objectif est avant tout éducatif. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4368251](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4368251) [\#8063707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8063707)) - White spots on the tongue are one of the symptoms of a possible oral cancer, **primarily** caused by smoking. Even if you escape death, you risk losing part or all of your tongue. Les taches blanches sur la langue sont l’un des symptômes d’un éventuel cancer de la bouche, surtout dû au tabagisme. Même si vous échappiez à la mort, vous risquez de perdre une partie ou la totalité de votre langue. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Objectivesea · checked, community translation · [\#8223071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8223071) [\#8223070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8223070)) ## 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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