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Ce mot a **plusieurs** sens. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Aghanim · checked, community translation · [\#11307907](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11307907) [\#11245683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11245683)) - He saw **several** more come in, one after another, out of the impenetrable vapour. Il en vit venir encore **plusieurs**, sortant l'un après l'autre de l'ombre impénétrable. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1050) - When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned **several** days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven, Lorsque j’entendis ces choses, je m’assis, je pleurai, et je fus **plusieurs** jours dans la désolation. Je jeûnai et je priai devant le Dieu des cieux, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 1:4) - This is an historic vote for **several** reasons. Il s'agit d'un vote historique pour **plusieurs** raisons. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1454880) - **Several** alternatives are possible. **Plusieurs** méthodes sont possibles. ([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 2821986) ## ont Used about 4 412 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 643 · UN documents ≈ 3 769). - Then **several** countries have bilateral problems. Cela signifie que divers pays **ont** des problèmes bilatéraux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1830035) - 408. **Several** studies have been carried out in Angola in recent years on people ' s knowledge, attitudes and practices with regard to STDs and HIV/AIDS. 408. Diverses études sur les connaissances, les attitudes et les pratiques relatives aux maladies sexuellement transmissibles et au VIH/sida **ont** été réalisées en Angola durant les dernières années. ([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 11944926) - These commitments were made on **several** occasions and must feature in the new proposals. Ces engagements **ont** été réitérés à diverses reprises et doivent apparaître dans les nouvelles propositions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1557842) - In addition, they have already been through a first trial, as **several** colleagues have already pointed out. Ils **ont** en outre déjà subi un premier procès, comme l'ont déjà souligné certains collègues. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 351734) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Several** years went by. De nombreuses années se sont écoulées. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by voxbubnya and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#271062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/271062) [\#7115699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7115699)) - We have discussed the problem **several** times but to no avail. Nous avons débattu de ce problème à de nombreuses reprises mais en vain. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and Goofy · checked, community translation · [\#23166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23166) [\#502951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/502951)) - The plane has hit **several** air pockets. L'avion a heurté de nombreuses poches d'air. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and Bafy78 · checked, community translation · [\#2890296](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2890296) [\#8376159](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8376159)) ## 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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