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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1983991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1983991) [\#1984900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1984900)) - **Rather** than borrow, he went without food. **Plutôt** que d'emprunter il ne mangeait pas. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14823) - **Rather**, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. allez **plutôt** vers les brebis perdues de la maison d’Israël. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 10:6) - **Rather**, as parliamentarians, that responsibility is our calling. En tant que députés, cette responsabilité est **plutôt** notre vocation. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1289209) - An average **rather** than a marginal market position is used. Une position moyenne **plutôt** qu'une position marginale sur le marché est utilisée. ([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 4571961) ## non Used about 10 054 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 104 · legal and administrative ≈ 710 · UN documents ≈ 8 236). - It was evident that Marius had his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he feared some source that was not pure, who knows? that he had even, perhaps, discovered that the money came from him, Jean Valjean, that he hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it as his own,—preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, **rather** than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. Il était évident que Marius avait des doutes sur l'origine de ces six cent mille francs, qu'il craignait quelque source **non** pure, qui sait? qu'il avait même peut-être découvert que cet argent venait de lui Jean Valjean, qu'il hésitait devant cette fortune suspecte, et répugnait à la prendre comme sienne, aimant mieux rester pauvres, lui et Cosette, que d'être riches d'une richesse trouble. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31158) - Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I tell you, no, but **rather** division. Pensez-vous que je sois venu apporter la paix sur la terre? **Non**, vous dis-je, mais la division. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 12:51) - It is a question of working with, **rather** than against, each other. Il s'agit de travailler l'un avec l'autre, et **non** l'un contre l'autre. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 903896) - The Commission notes that the measures in question supported professional football activities **rather** than amateur sport. La Commission fait observer que les mesures en question ont soutenu les activités footballistiques professionnelles et **non** le sport amateur. ([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 4152777) - Overtime payments to civilian personnel (posted in offices, **rather** than in the field) (SAR 20,832,323). d) Paiement d ' heures supplémentaires au personnel civil (en poste dans des bureaux, et **non** sur le terrain) (SAR 20 832 323). ([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 9687987) ## mais Used about 7 202 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 1 472 · legal and administrative ≈ 203 · UN documents ≈ 5 491). - Venus is not a star, but **rather** a planet. Vénus n'est pas une étoile, **mais** une planète. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13856248](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13856248) [\#13856249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13856249)) - Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but **rather** fear the LORD all day long. Que ton cœur n’envie point les pécheurs, **Mais** qu’il ait toujours la crainte de l’Éternel; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 23:17) - The issue was not, therefore, whether China should join the WTO, but **rather** when. La question n'était donc pas de savoir si la Chine devait rejoindre l'OMC, **mais** bien quand elle devait le faire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 251801) - The precise routes to be operated were not chosen by RAS but **rather** left at the discretion of the operator. Le choix des lignes pour la prestation des services de liaison n'a pas été imposé par la RAS, **mais** laissé à la discrétion de l'opérateur. ([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 4491713) - Universal jurisdiction does not apply to all international crimes, but **rather** to a very limited category of offences. La compétence universelle ne s ' applique pas à tous les crimes internationaux **mais** à un nombre limité d ' infractions. ([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 19706262) ## peu Used about 2 869 times in the texts (literary ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 1 472 · UN documents ≈ 1 373). - I thought him **rather** ungrateful. Je trouvai la réponse un **peu** ingrate. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2604) - There is something **rather** tragic in this attitude. Il y a quelque chose d'un **peu** tragique dans cette attitude. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1628729) - Mr. MINE (Japan): Mr. President, with your permission, I would like to make a few remarks **rather** belatedly on security assurances. M. MINE (Japon) (traduit de l ' anglais): Monsieur le Président, si vous m ' y autorisez, je souhaiterais formuler un **peu** tardivement quelques observations sur les garanties de sécurité. ([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 15098241) - “**Rather**!” grinned the ventriloquist. --Un **peu**! fit le ventriloque en ricanant. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22077) - No doubt they had reckoned on a **rather** more favourable assessment. Il ne fait aucun doute que le pays avait tablé sur une évaluation un tant soit **peu** plus favorable. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 516324) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - That seems to me a **rather** pathetic aspiration. Cela me semble une aspiration assez pathétique. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8657121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8657121) [\#8976716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8976716)) - I don't usually eat breakfast because I'd **rather** sleep as late as I can. En général, je ne prends pas de petit déjeuner parce que je préfère dormir aussi longtemps que possible. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and tras · checked, community translation · [\#7544676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7544676) [\#7562370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7562370)) - Wouldn't you **rather** sit by the window? Préféreriez-vous être assis près de la fenêtre ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and milamber · checked, community translation · [\#274244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274244) [\#631883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/631883)) ## 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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