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By style: everyday 17 · literary 2 · biblical 18 · parliamentary 583 · legal and administrative 1 485 · UN documents 27 801. ## portions Used about 5 964 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 240 · UN documents ≈ 5 724). - In 2004, U.S. government food and environment regulators cautioned pregnant women not to eat more than 340 grams or 12 ounces of fish a week, the amount in two normal **servings**. The aim was to reduce their exposure to mercury, which contaminates fish worldwide. En 2004 aux États-Unis, les autorités en charge de la réglementation pour l'environnement et l'alimentation ont mis en garde les femmes enceintes de ne pas manger plus 340 grammes ou 12 onces de poisson par semaine, l'équivalent de deux **portions** de taille normale. Le but étant de réduire leur exposition au mercure, qui contamine le poisson au niveau mondial. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cangarejo and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#12150457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12150457) [\#12150491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12150491)) - ‘Bunches below 75 g intended for single **servings**’, where appropriate. «Grappes de moins de 75 g destinées à des **portions** individuelles», le cas échéant. ([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 2391853) - (b) " Bunches below 75 g intended for single **servings** " , if appropriate. b) < < Grappes de moins de 75 g destinées aux **portions** individuelles > > , le cas échéant. ([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 22753725) - “Bunches below 75 g intended for single **servings**”, where appropriate. Mention “Grappes de moins de 75 g destinées à des **portions** individuelles”, le cas échéant. ([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 4923751) - Class - " Bunches below 75 g intended for single **servings** " , if appropriate. < < Grappes de moins de 75 g destinées aux **portions** individuelles > > , le cas échéant. ([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 17295454) ## servir Used about 968 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 97 · legal and administrative ≈ 48 · UN documents ≈ 818). - Ziri is **serving**. Ziri est en train de **servir**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10210422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10210422) [\#10975929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10975929)) - Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, **serving** him. Il y avait là plusieurs femmes qui regardaient de loin; qui avaient accompagné Jésus depuis la Galilée, pour le **servir**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 27:55) - Further, I am grateful to her for **serving** as a role model for a young politician like myself. Je la félicite et lui suis reconnaissant de **servir** d'exemple à un jeune homme politique tel que moi. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 501140) - Hand-operated mechanical appliances, weighing 10 kg or less, used in the preparation, conditioning or **serving** of food or drink Appareils mécaniques actionnés à la main, d'un poids de 10 kg ou moins, utilisés pour préparer, conditionner ou **servir** les aliments ou les boissons ([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 1909216) - (xiv) **Serving** as the focal point for public information for United Nations country teams (United Nations information centres); xiv) **Servir** de centre de coordination de l ' information pour les équipes de pays de l ' ONU (centres d ' information des Nations Unies); ([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 7714552) ## individuelles Used about 409 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 409). - According to the Panel of Experts, small arms are those weapons designed for personal use, light weapons are designed for use by several persons **serving** as a crew (ibid., para. 25). Selon ce groupe d ' experts, par armes de petit calibre, on entend les armes **individuelles** et par armes légères, on entend celles qui sont collectives (ibid., par. 25). ([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 9341752) ## produit Used about 24 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 24). - According to the different levels of salt content, the product is subdivided into different quality categories, **serving** different uses. En fonction des différents niveaux de teneur en sel, le **produit** est subdivisé en différentes catégories de qualité, destinées à des usages différents. ([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 5319893) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Linux is designed for the benefit of the user; Windows is designed for the purpose of **serving** them ads. Linux est conçu au bénéfice de l'utilisateur ; Windows est conçu dans le but de lui diffuser des publicités. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#13735822](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13735822) [\#13788264](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13788264)) - Sami is now sitting in jail, **serving** a life sentence. Sami est maintenant en prison et purge une peine à perpétuité. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#6375901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6375901) [\#6375905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6375905)) - The seaman is the entry-level rank of Navy crew members, **serving** aboard various types of ships. Le matelot est le grade de base des équipages de la Marine nationale, embarqué sur tous types de bâtiments. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362947) [\#13362946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362946)) ## 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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