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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7382719](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7382719) [\#11455059](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11455059)) - The little girl, taking this **seriously**, fell to sobbing more violently than ever. La petite fille, prenant cette parole au **sérieux**, se remit à sangloter de plus belle. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16395) - We do indeed take them **seriously**. Nous les prenons d'ailleurs au **sérieux**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 983336) - He assured the Committee that the question was taken very **seriously**. Il assure le Comité que la question est prise très au **sérieux**. ([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 2802330) - No one takes us **seriously**. Personne ne nous prend au **sérieux**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2091180](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2091180) [\#2101497](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2101497)) ## sérieusement Used about 6 195 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 124 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 181 · legal and administrative ≈ 179 · UN documents ≈ 4 708). - I **seriously** doubt it. J'en doute **sérieusement**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2406304](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2406304) [\#7967019](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7967019)) - Here Phœbus was rather **seriously** embarrassed. Ici Phoebus fut assez **sérieusement** embarrassé. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5573) - We cannot **seriously** accept this. Nous ne pouvons pas **sérieusement** l'accepter. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 409820) - If the seat occupant(s) is (are) not **seriously** injured. Si le ou les occupants du ou des sièges ne sont pas blessés **sérieusement**. ([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 5515679) - Those initiatives would be **seriously** undermined by discussion of the item in the Assembly. Ces initiatives seraient **sérieusement** compromises par l ' examen de la question à l ' Assemblée. ([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 5912820) ## gravement Used about 3 671 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 236 · legal and administrative ≈ 604 · UN documents ≈ 2 825). - We have to take him to the hospital immediately; he is **seriously** injured! Nous devons l'emmener d'urgence à l'hôpital, il est **gravement** blessé ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#5942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5942) [\#3930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3930)) - The archers shot at King Josiah; and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, because I am **seriously** wounded!” Les archers tirèrent sur le roi Josias, et le roi dit à ses serviteurs: Emportez-moi, car je suis **gravement** blessé. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 35:23) - I am **seriously** concerned about the impasse that has been reached here. Je suis **gravement** préoccupé de l'impasse dans laquelle nous nous trouvons. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1987189) - has **seriously** infringed this Regulation. a **gravement** enfreint le présent règlement. ([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 5270167) - Three of the robbers were killed and one was **seriously** injured. Trois d ' entre eux avaient été tués et le quatrième **gravement** blessé. ([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 5167823) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You are **seriously** ill. Vous êtes un grand malade. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CC and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#885777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/885777) [\#886028](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/886028)) - Miraculously, nobody was **seriously** injured. Miraculeusement, personne n'a été grièvement blessé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#5369346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5369346) [\#5369522](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5369522)) - The new trendy way to drink vodka is to pour it directly into your eye socket. However, doing so could **seriously** damage your vision. La nouvelle tendance pour boire une vodka est de la mettre directement dans l'œil. Cependant cela risque d'endommager grièvement votre vision. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Risk and slist · checked, community translation · [\#427313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/427313) [\#427664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/427664)) ## 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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