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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1542326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1542326) [\#1542663](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1542663)) - It was to Bossuet that he **sent** Navet. C'est à Bossuet qu'il a **envoyé** Navet. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23818) - He who sees me sees him who **sent** me. et celui qui me voit voit celui qui m’a **envoyé**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 12:45) - I therefore **sent** this letter only today. J'ai donc **envoyé** cette lettre aujourd'hui même. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1290938) - The Commission **sent** questionnaires to all known importers and traders. La Commission a **envoyé** des questionnaires à tous les importateurs et négociants connus. ([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 1616753) ## lettre Used about 3 650 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 28 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 55 · parliamentary ≈ 194 · legal and administrative ≈ 404 · UN documents ≈ 2 969). - Once he had written the letter, he **sent** it. La **lettre** écrite, il l'expédia. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#631785](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/631785) [\#791572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/791572)) - I permit myself to address you this letter to beg you to grant me the pretious favor of your simpaties and to interest yourself in a man of letters who has just **sent** a drama to the Théâtre-Français. «Je me permets de vous adresser cette **lettre** pour vous prier de m'accorder la faveur prétieuse de vos simpaties et de vous intéresser à un homme de lettres qui vient d'envoyer un drame au théâtre-français. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15873) - In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab and **sent** it by the hand of Uriah. Le lendemain matin, David écrivit une **lettre** à Joab, et l’envoya par la main d’Urie. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 11:14) - I refer to the letter that I **sent** to the President yesterday. Je me réfère à la **lettre** que j'ai envoyée hier à la Présidente. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 242609) - By letter dated 7 July 2010, the Commission **sent** that complaint to Germany and requested information. Par **lettre** du 7 juillet 2010, la Commission a transmis la plainte à l'Allemagne et lui a demandé des renseignements. ([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 4216851) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Did you get the flowers I **sent** you? Avez-vous reçu les fleurs que je vous ai envoyées ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1886152](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1886152) [\#6843697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6843697)) - The warden **sent** Dan back to solitary confinement. Le directeur a renvoyé Dan à l'isolement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3930983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3930983) [\#8411921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8411921)) - I just **sent** you a present in the mail. Je viens de vous envoyer un cadeau par la poste. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1203682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1203682) [\#1421987](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1421987)) ## 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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