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Cette salle est utilisée à diverses **fins**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#57337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/57337) [\#12320485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12320485)) - However, it must be used for civilian **purposes**. Toutefois, elle doit servir des **fins** civiles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1205989) - For the **purposes** of this Agreement: Aux **fins** du présent accord: ([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 290099) - For the **purposes** of this Convention: Aux **fins** de la présente Convention: ([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and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11699065) - For all practical **purposes**, that word is obsolete. Pour toutes **fins** pratiques, ce mot est obsolète. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6994467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6994467) [\#8751259](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8751259)) ## but Used about 10 179 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 636 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 502 · UN documents ≈ 7 008). - What's the **purpose** of your trip? Quel est le **but** de votre voyage ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#325558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325558) [\#1211539](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1211539)) - Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the **purpose** of founding, to this pious end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé of Saint-Germain, “on condition that no woman could be received unless she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six thousand livres, to the principal.” Toutes deux, l'une en 1652, l'autre en 1653, firent donation de sommes notables à la mère Catherine de Bar, dite du Saint-Sacrement, religieuse bénédictine, pour fonder, dans ce **but** pieux, un monastère de l'ordre de Saint-Benoît; la première permission pour cette fondation fut donnée à la mère Catherine de Bar par Mr de Metz, abbé de Saint-Germain, «à la charge qu'aucune fille ne pourrait être reçue, qu'elle n'apportât trois cents livres de pension, qui font six mille livres au principal». ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10825) - The question is what the **purpose** of these permanent structures is. La question est de savoir quel est le **but** de ces structures permanentes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1217498) - **Purpose**-bred animals should be used in preference to animals taken from the wild. Les animaux élevés dans ce **but** devraient être préférés aux animaux capturés dans la nature. ([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 1179325) - But the essential **purpose** of the United Nations humanitarian machinery is not to secure broad bureaucratic consensus at any cost. Mais le système humanitaire de l ' ONU n ' a pas pour **but** premier d ' assurer un consensus bureaucratique à tout prix. ([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 3515803) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I'm sure you did it on **purpose**; you're mean. Je suis sûre que tu l'as fait exprès, tu es méchante. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#9725739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9725739) [\#9725792](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9725792)) - I know that you did it on **purpose**. Je sais que vous l'avez fait exprès. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7518818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7518818) [\#7327128](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7327128)) - I did this on **purpose**. Je l'ai fait exprès. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9180926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9180926) [\#2339073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2339073)) ## 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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