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By style: everyday 280 · literary 41 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 15 108 · legal and administrative 26 931 · UN documents 61 230. ## unique Used about 24 145 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 665 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 630 · UN documents ≈ 10 843). - A **single** death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. Une **unique** mort est une tragédie, un million de morts est une statistique. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by karloelkebekio and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3630867](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3630867) [\#3630874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3630874)) - In that immense horizon, which assumed so many aspects about him, his contemplation was concentrated on a **single** point. Dans cet immense horizon qui prenait tant d'aspects autour de lui, sa contemplation était concentrée sur un point **unique**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8963) - What was that we were saying about a **single** European voice? Que disait-on à propos d’une voix européenne **unique**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 515809) - the **single** point of contact referred to in Article 25; le guichet **unique** visé à l'article 25; ([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 4868128) - But we are not wedded to a **single** model of reform. Mais nous n ' insistons pas sur un modèle **unique** de réforme. ([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 14829687) ## seul Used about 9 612 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 86 · literary ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 1 259 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 142 · UN documents ≈ 5 103). Forms: seul, seule. - Tom is **single** again. Tom est de nouveau **seul**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#7733736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7733736) [\#12234580](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12234580)) - Marius had not failed for a **single** day. Marius n'avait point failli un **seul** jour. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14818) - The report **singles** out only one of the major partners for cooperation in dealing with China. Le rapport ne souligne qu’un **seul** des principaux partenaires en matière de coopération vis-à-vis de la Chine. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 848961) - With an outer shell of a **single** identical fabric Dont l’extérieur est réalisé dans une **seule** et même étoffe ([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 170367) - There is not a **single** member of the Russian military on Georgian territory. Il n ' y a pas un **seul** soldat russe sur le territoire géorgien. ([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 23808557) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I'm a **single** parent. Je suis un parent célibataire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5166542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5166542) [\#11675491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11675491)) - You don't hesitate to remind me every **single** time. Toi, tu ne te gênes pas pour me le rappeler à chaque fois. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#13818690](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13818690) [\#8608324](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8608324)) - We followed him **single** file till we reached the cabin. Nous le suivîmes en file indienne jusqu'à ce que nous parvînmes à la cabane. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#532025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/532025) [\#1833422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1833422)) ## 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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