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Ce n'est pas ma **taille**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10064133](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10064133) [\#10068633](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10068633)) - She usually took a complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and **sizes**, whom she made sing standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the smallest to the largest. Elle en prenait ordinairement une gamme complète, c'est-à-dire sept, de dix ans à seize inclusivement, voix et **tailles** assorties, qu'elle faisait chanter debout, alignées côte à côte par rang d'âge de la plus petite à la plus grande. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10735) - Naturally, **size** also matters. Naturellement, la **taille** intervient également. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 801734) - **Size**, shape and surface **Taille**, forme et surface ([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 4801914) - PERMITTED OR PROHIBITED (AGES/**SIZES**) PAR DES ENFANTS (AGE/**TAILLE**) ([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 4333373) ## dimensions Used about 10 304 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 116 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 521 · UN documents ≈ 7 662). Forms: dimension, dimensions. - The State of Texas is almost the same **size** as France. L'État du Texas a à peu près les mêmes **dimensions** que la France. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3260492](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3260492) [\#3260491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3260491)) - They were lowly shrubs of earth, here attaining gigantic **size**; lycopodiums, a hundred feet high; the huge sigillaria, found in our coal mines; tree ferns, as tall as our fir-trees in northern latitudes; lepidodendra, with cylindrical forked stems, terminated by long leaves, and bristling with rough hairs like those of the cactus. Ils étaient faciles à reconnaître; c'étaient les humbles arbustes de la terre, avec des **dimensions** phénoménales, des lycopodes hauts de cent pieds, des sigillaires géantes, des fougères arborescentes, grandes comme les sapins des hautes latitudes, des lepidodendrons à tiges cylindriques bifurquées, terminées par de longues feuilles et hérissées de poils rudes comme de monstrueuses plantes grasses. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2622) - Where standard **sizes** have already been introduced, it will be enough to go on indicating prices for these units. Pour les **dimensions** soumises à des normes, l'indication des prix à l'unité doit toujours suffire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1596200) - Range of tyre **sizes**: Pneumatiques: plage des **dimensions**: ([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 5442556) - Wheel **size**/tyre dimensions. **Dimension** de la roue/du pneumatique ([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 12296815) ## différentes Used about 947 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 23 · legal and administrative ≈ 158 · UN documents ≈ 766). - What is needed is a range of strict legal requirements for fuel consumption for the different **sizes** of car engines; in other words, a proposal for a directive. Ce dont nous avons besoin, c'est une série de normes légales rigoureuses pour la consommation de carburant des **différentes** catégories de véhicules. Une proposition de directive donc. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1872204) - different engine **sizes** are allowed; des cylindrées **différentes** pour le moteur sont autorisées; ([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 5441811) - The completeness statistic is divided into different **size** classes, for example, by employees or turnover. Les statistiques de complétude sont ventilées en **différentes** classes, par exemple par nombre d ' employés ou chiffre d ' affaires. ([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 10458588) - Also other container types and **sizes** are in circulation, and their widths and heights and construction strengths differ. En outre, des conteneurs présentant des caractéristiques techniques **différentes** (largeur, hauteur, résistance, etc.) sont en circulation. ([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 11237185) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - What **size** shoes do you wear? Quelle pointure faites-vous ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#18112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18112) [\#1557965](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1557965)) - Australia is smaller in **size** than South America. L'Australie est plus petite que l'Amérique du Sud. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by odiernod and Apex · checked, community translation · [\#955832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/955832) [\#10804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10804)) - What do you think Tom's shoe **size** is? Quel est la pointure de Tom à ton avis? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Wittydev · checked, community translation · [\#1140811](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1140811) [\#1146976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1146976)) ## 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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