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By style: everyday 356 · literary 42 · biblical 540 · parliamentary 2 646 · legal and administrative 95 · UN documents 27 911. ## rayons Used about 5 088 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 96 · legal and administrative ≈ 49 · UN documents ≈ 4 943). - “What if the **spokes** were to be tied together with ropes?” --Si on liait les **rayons** avec des cordes? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5521) - The budget is the hub where all the **spokes** of the European wheel come together. Le budget est le moyeu où convergent tous les **rayons** de la roue européenne. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 603639) - Wheel rims and **spokes**, for bicycles Jantes et **rayons**, de bicyclettes ([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 59585) - One in the area connecting **spokes** to rim and further one in the area between two **spokes**, very close to the valve hole. Un dans la zone reliant les **rayons** et la jante et un autre dans la zone située entre deux rayons, très près du trou de la valve. ([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 17463051) - It is the ECB that is the hub, the participating national central banks are the **spokes**; together they form the central banking system of Europe. La BCE constitue le moyeu, les banques centrales nationales participantes représentent les **rayons**; ensemble, elles forment le système bancaire central européen. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 481036) ## parlé Used about 2 683 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 134 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 1 058 · UN documents ≈ 1 454). - He **spoke** to him. Il lui a **parlé**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11953369](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11953369) [\#11953367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11953367)) - The captain **spoke** in a tone which did not admit of a reply. Le capitaine avait **parlé** d'un ton qui n'admettait pas de réplique. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2846) - God went up from him in the place where he **spoke** with him. Dieu s’éleva au-dessus de lui, dans le lieu où il lui avait **parlé**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 35:13) - You **spoke** about direct negotiations. Vous avez **parlé** de négociations directes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1517696) - 381. A witness from Gaza **spoke** about the economic situation of Palestinian workers who work or used to work in Israel: 381. Un témoin de Gaza a **parlé** de la situation économique des Palestiniens qui travaillent ou travaillaient en Israël : ([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 2509133) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He **spoke** to me in German. Il parlait allemand avec moi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#3104416](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3104416) [\#6859288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6859288)) - Sami never **spoke** to Layla again. Sami n'a jamais reparlé à Layla. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6807405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6807405) [\#6807971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6807971)) - I **spoke** with him about the matter. Je me suis entretenu avec lui à ce sujet. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#254322](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/254322) [\#11481754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11481754)) ## 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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