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By style: everyday 20 · literary 7 · biblical 35 · parliamentary 2 105 · legal and administrative 715 · UN documents 20 186. ## demande Used about 8 534 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4 · legal and administrative ≈ 119 · UN documents ≈ 8 411). - 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) - Where either Party **seeks** a review of this Agreement, it shall submit a reasoned request to the other Party. Lorsqu'une partie désire une révision du présent accord, elle soumet à l'autre partie une **demande** motivée. ([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 275075) ## cherche Used about 2 347 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 482 · legal and administrative ≈ 149 · UN documents ≈ 1 682). - He who **seeks** will find. Celui qui **cherche** trouvera. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amazigh\_Bedar and Amazigh\_Bedar · checked, community translation · [\#7034907](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7034907) [\#7034908](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7034908)) - The I in the eyes howls, **seeks**, fumbles, and gnaws. Le moi sans yeux hurle, **cherche**, tâtonne et ronge. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15616) - 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) - It **seeks** to approximate laws with common minimum penalties. Elle **cherche** à rapprocher les législations avec des sanctions communes minimales. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 288769) - 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) ## vise Used about 2 271 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 395 · legal and administrative ≈ 194 · UN documents ≈ 1 682). - Our position on this matter only **seeks** to prevent bureaucracy. Notre position dans ce dossier ne **vise** qu'à prévenir la bureaucratie. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1286612) - it does not directly relate to the text which it **seeks** to amend; si son contenu n'a aucun rapport direct avec le texte qu'il **vise** à modifier; ([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 624748) - 20. The policy adopted by the Secretary-General also **seeks** to pay down debt to Member States when payments of arrears are received. Le principe posé par le Secrétaire général **vise** aussi à utiliser les arriérés de contributions pour rembourser les États Membres. ([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 6793680) - The proposal **seeks** simply to simplify the consolidation of current legislation. La proposition **vise** simplement à simplifier la consolidation de la législation actuelle. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 949645) - its nature and its level is proportional to the handicaps it **seeks** to alleviate, sa nature et son niveau soient proportionnels aux handicaps qu’elle **vise** à pallier, ([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 3515537) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Who **seeks** shall find the wise said. « Ceux qui cherchent trouvent » a dit le sage. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and Aghanim · checked, community translation · [\#11235103](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11235103) [\#11234831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11234831)) - No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he **seeks**. Aucun homme ne choisit le mal parce que c'est le mal; il le confond seulement avec le bonheur, le bien qu'il recherche. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#413861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/413861) [\#1107548](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1107548)) - I am just a traveller who **seeks** the purity of the soul. Je ne suis qu'un voyageur qui recherche la pureté de l'âme. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kage and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#383895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/383895) [\#389655](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/389655)) ## 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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