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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#3594005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3594005) [\#1538703](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1538703)) - To eat, true **sense**: to devour. Manger, **sens** vrai: dévorer. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21259) - They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the **sense**, so that they understood the reading. Ils lisaient distinctement dans le livre de la loi de Dieu, et ils en donnaient le **sens** pour faire comprendre ce qu’ils avaient lu. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 8:8) - That does not make any **sense**. Cela n’a aucun **sens**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 629624) - fruits, in the botanical **sense**; les fruits au **sens** botanique du terme; ([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 4099095) ## moteur Used about 3 493 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 288 · UN documents ≈ 3 205). - Optional information, if the engine is so equipped, **senses** or calculates the information Informations Facultatives, à condition que le **moteur** possède les équipements nécessaires pour les recueillir ou les mesurer ([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 5469524) - (if the engine is so equipped, **senses** or calculates the information) (à condition que le **moteur** possède les équipements nécessaires pour les recueillir ou les mesurer) ([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 15554578) - Table 3 in appendix 5 shows the information which is required to be included if the engine is so equipped, **senses** or calculates the information. Le tableau 3 de l'appendice 5 précise les informations qui doivent être indiquées si le **moteur** est conçu pour détecter ou calculer ces informations. ([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 5440977) - Table 4 in Appendix 5 to this annex shows the information which is required to be included if the engine is so equipped, **senses** or calculates the information \[7\]. Le tableau 4 de l’appendice 5 indique les informations qui doivent être incluses si le **moteur** est conçu pour détecter ou calculer ces informations \[7\]. ([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 5513914) - OBD may involve devices, which measure, **senses** or responds to operating variables (e.g. vehicle speed, engine speed, gear used, temperature, intake pressure or any other parameter) for the purpose of detecting malfunctions and of minimising the risk of indicating false malfunction. L’OBD peut comporter des dispositifs qui mesurent, captent ou réagissent à des variables de fonctionnement (vitesse du véhicule, régime du **moteur**, rapport utilisé, température, pression d’admission ou tout autre paramètre) aux fins de la détection de dysfonctionnement et de la réduction du risque d’indication erronée de dysfonctionnement. ([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 615890) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - It makes **sense** now. C'est sensé, désormais. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1613135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1613135) [\#1614342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1614342)) - There's a general **sense** that something should be done about unemployment. Il y a un sentiment général selon lequel il faut faire quelque chose contre le chômage. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#681065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/681065) [\#1190548](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1190548)) - That story doesn't make **sense**. C'est une histoire à dormir debout. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by karloelkebekio and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#3597766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3597766) [\#1625053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1625053)) ## 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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