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By style: everyday 71 · literary 15 · biblical 236 · parliamentary 6 459 · legal and administrative 3 599 · UN documents 80 870. ## demande Used about 18 115 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 12 · legal and administrative ≈ 412 · UN documents ≈ 17 690). - Don't **seek** to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you. Ne **demande** pas que ce qui arrive arrive comme tu veux. Mais veuille que les choses arrivent comme elles arrivent, et tu seras heureux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#8068507](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8068507) [\#8068632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8068632)) - But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation **seeks** after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet. Il leur répondit: Une génération méchante et adultère **demande** un miracle; il ne lui sera donné d’autre miracle que celui du prophète Jonas. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 12:39) - The United Kingdom **seeks** approval for a period of 10 years. Le Royaume-Uni **demande** l'autorisation du régime pour une période de dix ans. ([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 790651) - He **seeks** compensation in the amount of USD 228,374. Il **demande** une indemnité de USD 228 374. ([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 14242120) - An evil and adulterous generation **seeks** after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them and departed. Une génération méchante et adultère **demande** un miracle; il ne lui sera donné d’autre miracle que celui de Jonas. Puis il les quitta, et s’en alla. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 16:4) ## cherche Used about 10 495 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 89 · parliamentary ≈ 1 346 · legal and administrative ≈ 600 · UN documents ≈ 8 424). Forms: cherche, chercher. - **Seek** and you shall find. **Cherche** et tu trouveras. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Shishir · checked, community translation · [\#11482895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11482895) [\#717444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/717444)) - Gringoire began to **seek** fresh expedients. Gringoire se mit à **chercher** de nouvelles solutions. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6639) - But I don’t **seek** my own glory. There is one who **seeks** and judges. Je ne **cherche** point ma gloire; il en est un qui la cherche et qui juge. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 8:50) - We should **seek** alternatives. Nous devons **chercher** des alternatives. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 108660) - service supplier means a person that supplies or **seeks** to supply a service; fournisseur de services désigne une personne qui fournit, ou **cherche** à fournir, un service; ([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 249470) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Seek**, and you will find. Cherchez, et vous trouverez. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#276705](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/276705) [\#12632588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12632588)) - There are those, who, in distress, **seek** the help of other people's prayers, but have no mind to pray for themselves. Il y a ceux qui, dans une situation désespérée, cherchent assistance dans les prières des autres, mais ne pensent pas à prier pour eux-mêmes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#391921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/391921) [\#391923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/391923)) - Let's play hide and **seek**. Jouons à cache-cache ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2007528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2007528) [\#4906296](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4906296)) ## 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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