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Forms: route, routes, routier, routière. - The **roads** are dirty. Les **routes** sont sales. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marco87 and marco87 · checked, community translation · [\#1506780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1506780) [\#1506782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1506782)) - After passing the port too, I had reached the Altona **road**. Après avoir remonté le port, j'étais arrivé à la **route** d'Altona. ([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 554) - I will make all my mountains a **road**, and my highways shall be exalted. Je changerai toutes mes montagnes en chemins, Et mes **routes** seront frayées. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 49:11) - Many people die on these **roads**. De nombreuses personnes perdent la vie sur ces **routes**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 937120) - Automobile emergency **road** services Services de secours **routier** ([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 1495448) ## transport Used about 3 082 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 057 · UN documents ≈ 2 025). - Transportation is ensured by lorries which pollute the air and damage the **roads** due to their weight. Le **transport** est assuré par des camions qui polluent l'air et endommagent les chaussées en raison de leur poids. ([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 3803318) - (Ministry of Transport - Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia for **Roads**, (Ministry of **Transport** - Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Roads, ([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 12811531) - Content of the Annex to the Directive: Requirements for the transport of dangerous goods on public **roads**. Contenu de l’annexe de la directive: exigences applicables au **transport** de marchandises dangereuses sur la voie publique. ([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 1988210) - Development of intermodal competition, with measures to promote rail and combined transport and to limit the development of **road** haulage. Développement de la concurrence intermodale, accompagné de mesures pour promouvoir le **transport** ferroviaire et le transport combiné et freiner le développement des transports routiers; ([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 7578751) - ISO 15006 (2004) — **Road** vehicles — Traffic information and control systems (TICS) — Auditory presentation of information, ISO 15006 (2004): Véhicules routiers — systèmes de commande et d’information du **transport** (TICS) — présentation des informations auditives. ([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 1433643) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The **road** was icy. Le chemin était verglacé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#4811056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4811056) [\#8324100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8324100)) - Go straight down the **road**, and when you pass the traffic light you're there. Descendez la rue tout droit et lorsque vous passez le feu, vous y êtes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kebukebu and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#622359](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/622359) [\#1738431](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1738431)) - They've gone over the **road**. Elles ont traversé la rue. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8947008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8947008) [\#2296308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2296308)) ## 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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