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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#317518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/317518) [\#4758410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4758410)) - Properly **speaking**, he did not enter. À proprement **parler**, il n'entra pas. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6436) - When Moses was done **speaking** with them, he put a veil on his face. Lorsque Moïse eut achevé de leur **parler**, il mit un voile sur son visage. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 34:33) - To be perfectly clear: I am not **speaking** now on behalf of my group. Pour **parler** clairement: je ne m'exprime pas ici au nom de mon groupe. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 467840) - 39. The CHAIRMAN, **speaking** in his personal capacity, said he would prefer “a high degree of autonomy”. 39. Le PRÉSIDENT, **parlant** en son nom propre, préférerait " un haut degré d ' autonomie " . ([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 4891446) ## parole Used about 5 801 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 345 · legal and administrative ≈ 179 · UN documents ≈ 4 274). - While Peter was still **speaking** these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who heard the word. Comme Pierre prononçait encore ces mots, le Saint-Esprit descendit sur tous ceux qui écoutaient la **parole**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 10:44) - My **speaking** time has run out. Mon temps de **parole** est écoulé. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1294464) - Standards of conduct and **speaking** time Règles de conduite et temps de **parole** ([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 3236133) - I now give the floor to Ambassador Skotnikov, **speaking** on behalf of the Eastern European Group. Je donne maintenant la **parole** à l ' Ambassadeur Skotnikov, intervenant au nom du Groupe de l ' Europe orientale. ([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 8963842) - So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be **speaking** into the air. De même vous, si par la langue vous ne donnez pas une **parole** distincte, comment saura-t-on ce que vous dites? Car vous parlerez en l’air. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:9) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He isn't **speaking**. Il ne parle pas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#11956300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11956300) [\#8663796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8663796)) - I'm better at writing French than **speaking** it. En français, je suis meilleure à l’écrit qu’à l’oral. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DemonicSatori and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#8919711](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8919711) [\#7903909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7903909)) - My **speaking** and listening in Turkish needs improvement. Mes compétences en expression orale et en compréhension orale en turc ont besoin d'être améliorées. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DostKaplan and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#3527483](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3527483) [\#13953078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13953078)) ## 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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