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Forms: important, importante, importants. - That is a **significant** problem. C'est un problème **important**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8082184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8082184) [\#8453510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8453510)) - I think this too is highly **significant**. Je pense que c'est également très **important**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 354955) - **Significant** events and transactions Événements et transactions **importants** ([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 2346905) - This is of course a **significant** development. Il s ' agit là, bien sûr, d ' une évolution **importante**. ([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 11801356) - Do you think that's **significant**? Pensez-vous que ce soit **important** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1096503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1096503) [\#1099574](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1099574)) ## significatif Used about 16 797 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 761 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 456 · UN documents ≈ 8 567). Forms: significatif, significative. - Every word is **significant**. Chaque mot est **significatif**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3309203](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3309203) [\#3671115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3671115)) - At the end of the street there was a **significant** clash of arms. Il y avait au bout de la rue un cliquetis d'armes **significatif**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24693) - That will be a modest but **significant** step forward for the European Union. Ce sera un pas en avant, certes modeste, mais néanmoins **significatif** pour l'Union européenne. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1728141) - **Significant** difference in risk Différence **significative** en matière de risques ([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 1936334) - A substantial increase in the universe of the elderly is noted, which has **significant** impacts on the functioning of the public hospital network. Le vieillissement non négligeable de la population a une incidence **significative** sur le fonctionnement du réseau des hôpitaux publics. ([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 7996586) ## bien Used about 5 719 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · UN documents ≈ 5 711). - Spending time with your **significant** other should be high on your priority list. Passer du temps avec ta **bien**-aimée devrait être en tête de ta liste de priorités. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#909572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909572) [\#1405902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1405902)) - It is important to shed a new light on mothers and the **significant** role that they play in the well-being of society. Il importe de jeter un nouvel éclairage sur les mères et leur apport crucial au **bien**-être de la société. ([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 28213366) - Spending time with your **significant** other should be high on your priority list. Passer du temps avec ton **bien**-aimé devrait être en tête de ta liste de priorités. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#909572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909572) [\#1405900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1405900)) - Though still very low, these rates are also a **significant** improvement on the situation in 1991, when only 7 per cent of girls and 17 per cent of boys enrolled. **Bien** qu ' encore très faibles ces taux constituent une amélioration considérable par rapport à la situation de 1991, date à laquelle 7 % des filles et 17 % seulement des garçons étaient inscrits. ([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 10495398) - Spending time with your **significant** other should be high on your priority list. Passer du temps avec ton **bien**-aimé devrait être en tête de la liste de tes priorités. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#909572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909572) [\#1406745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1406745)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Algeria's location is of **significant** geostrategic importance. La position géographique de l'Algérie est d'une grande importance géostratégique. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10092165](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10092165) [\#11840144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11840144)) - If this proposal is put into practice, the business world will be affected to a **significant** degree. Si cette proposition est appliquée, le monde des affaires sera considérablement affecté. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#31034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/31034) [\#8487364](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8487364)) - That is a **significant** problem. C'est un problème sérieux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#8082184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8082184) [\#1540791](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1540791)) ## 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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