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Ziri souffrait d'un cas **grave** d'autisme. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#10511468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10511468) [\#12481994](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12481994)) - then the LORD will make your plagues and the plagues of your offspring fearful, even great plagues, and of long duration, and **severe** sicknesses, and of long duration. l’Éternel te frappera miraculeusement, toi et ta postérité, par des plaies grandes et de longue durée, par des maladies **graves** et opiniâtres. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 28:59) - There is **severe** malnutrition in North Korea. La Corée du Nord souffre de **graves** problèmes de malnutrition. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1975352) - Causes **severe** skin burns and eye damage H314: Provoque de **graves** brûlures de la peau et des lésions oculaires ([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 1636571) - Underweight (%, moderate and **severe**)\* Insuffisance pondérale (modérée et **grave**, en pourcentage\* ([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 22930558) ## sévère Used about 1 795 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 381 · legal and administrative ≈ 304 · UN documents ≈ 1 080). Forms: sévère, sévères. - He was **severe** with his children. Il était **sévère** avec ses enfants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and queenie · checked, community translation · [\#297156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/297156) [\#140105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/140105)) - He was **severe** in his enjoyments. Il était **sévère** dans les joies. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13986) - It is firm, even **severe**, and demanding. Ferme, **sévère** même, exigeant. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1942873) - Eye contact: Causes **severe** irritation. Contact avec les yeux: Provoque une irritation **sévère**. ([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 5239123) - They have reinforced supervision, imposing **severe** punishment in cases of interrogation by torture. Ils ont renforcé les contrôles, imposant des peines **sévères** quand des cas de torture lors d ' un interrogatoire ont été constatés. ([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 2689853) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Alice returned home early from work with a **severe** headache. Alice rentra plus tôt du travail avec un sérieux mal de tête. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Apex · checked, community translation · [\#67347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67347) [\#10586](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10586)) - The winter will be **severe**. L'hiver sera rigoureux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by danepo and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3387865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3387865) [\#11418957](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11418957)) - The weather service has issued a **severe** weather warning. Le service météorologique a émis un avis de tempête. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#984451](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/984451) [\#984499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/984499)) ## 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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