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Forms: souverain, souveraine, souveraines, souverains. - We need a **sovereign**. Nous avons besoin d'un **souverain**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12642940](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12642940) [\#13578529](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13578529)) - The old soldier replied with the calm and **sovereign** tone of a man who had been there:— Le vieux soldat répondit avec l'accent calme et **souverain** de l'homme qui y a été. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23354) - After all this House is **sovereign**. Après tout, cette Assemblée est **souveraine**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1723560) - **Sovereign** rating band scale Échelle de notation **souveraine** ([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 5210000) - Strong **sovereigns** can make a strong coalition. Des **souverains** puissants peuvent former une coalition solide. ([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 8965790) ## dette Used about 29 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 29). - I also support the request for the write-off of **sovereign** debt to no longer be regarded as an integral part of official development assistance. Je me retrouve aussi dans la demande que l'annulation de la **dette** des États ne soit plus considérée comme partie intégrante de l'aide publique au développement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1400041) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - “Master Dreux-Raguier, surveyor of the woods and forests of the king our **sovereign**, in the land of France, Champagne and Brie!” Maître Dreux-Raguier, enquesteur des eaux et forêts du roi notre sire, ès pays de France, Champagne et Brie! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 573) - “I have seen millionaires with coats like that,” replied Thénardier, in a **sovereign** manner. --J'ai vu, répondit souverainement Thénardier, des millionnaires qui avaient des redingotes comme cela. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8700) - That said, he seated himself with **sovereign** dignity before the table, where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. Cela dit, il s'assit souverainement devant la table, où étaient restées la chandelle et l'écritoire, tira un papier timbré de sa poche et commença son procès-verbal. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17913) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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