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La vie est **parfois** bizarre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#2544632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2544632) [\#7074462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7074462)) - Insurrection is **sometimes** resurrection. **Parfois**, insurrection, c'est résurrection. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22900) - **Sometimes** they do fall into traps. **Parfois**, ils tombent dans les pièges. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 335560) - Patches of fat **sometimes** visible Amas graisseux **parfois** apparents. ([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 1473618) - **Sometimes** they were forced to help the robbers. Ils ont **parfois** été contraints d ' aider les pillards. ([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 536803) ## quelquefois Used about 543 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 33 · UN documents ≈ 487). - Do you **sometimes** go abroad on your holidays? Vas-tu **quelquefois** en vacances à l'étranger ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and Petro1 · checked, community translation · [\#19819](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19819) [\#9291](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9291)) - They **sometimes** admire him. On l'admire **quelquefois**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12735) - 59. In reforming laws with regard to trafficking **sometimes** States adopt measures that violate the human rights of the potential victims they wish to protect. 59. En réformant les lois relatives à la traite, les États adoptent **quelquefois** des mesures qui violent les droits individuels des victimes potentielles qu ' ils souhaitent protéger. ([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 10715224) - We **sometimes** say: "Common sense is quite uncommon." On dit **quelquefois** : « Le sens commun est fort rare. » ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#407001](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/407001) [\#407000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/407000)) - The depth is **sometimes** very great. Profondeur **quelquefois** très 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 27912) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Sometimes** I have premonitory dreams. Il m’arrive de faire des rêves prémonitoires. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Theocracy and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#5875299](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5875299) [\#5403753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5403753)) - **Sometimes** it's better to remain silent. Des fois, il vaut mieux rester silencieux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4296868](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4296868) [\#5920257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5920257)) - She does that **sometimes**. Ça lui arrive de faire ça. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#6854059](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6854059) [\#12419067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12419067)) ## 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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