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Une grue **soulève** des matériaux de construction lourds. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#681840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/681840) [\#8413856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8413856)) - “Listen,” resumed Madeleine; “there is still room enough under the cart to allow a man to crawl beneath it and **raise** it with his back. --Écoutez, reprit Madeleine, il y a encore assez de place sous la voiture pour qu'un homme s'y glisse et la **soulève** avec son dos. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3826) - This **raises** some question marks, to put it mildly. Cela **soulève** quelques questions, pour parler gentiment. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 747880) - This **raises** questions as to the reliability and accuracy of the variable-duty MIP invoices. Cela **soulève** des questions quant à la fiabilité et à l’exactitude des factures établies sur la base du PMI de droit variable. ([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 5250355) - This envisaged option **raises** further questions. Cette option **soulève** d ' autres questions. ([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 3365255) ## questions Used about 3 323 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 689 · legal and administrative ≈ 104 · UN documents ≈ 2 527). - The only useful answers are those that **raise** new questions. Les seules réponses utiles sont celles qui posent de nouvelles **questions**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and SUZIE · checked, community translation · [\#1581](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1581) [\#3398](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3398)) - This report is relevant based on the issues which it **raises**. Ce rapport est pertinent par les **questions** qu'il suscite. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1166397) - However, this **raises** legal issues and may create obstacles to mobility: Cette situation ne manque pas de soulever des **questions** juridiques et peut engendrer des entraves à la mobilité: ([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 3777865) - The example **raises** many questions and issues. 31. Cet exemple illustre les nombreuses **questions** qui peuvent se poser. ([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 12150932) - However, I should like to **raise** three points which perhaps merit our attention. Cependant, je voudrais également aborder trois **questions** qui portent peut-être matière à réflexion. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 27997) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - We need to **raise** prices. Nous devons augmenter les prix. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5051478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5051478) [\#11071268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11071268)) - Tom asked for a **raise**. Tom a demandé une augmentation. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#1095897](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1095897) [\#1430388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1430388)) - **Raise** your hands if you need another copy. Faites signe si vous avez besoin d'une autre copie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13974250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13974250) [\#13974252](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13974252)) ## 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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