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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by strangeanalyst and nbrr · checked, community translation · [\#5157694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5157694) [\#5149951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5149951)) - In the Abyei region, he has **started** to massacre citizens. Il a **commencé** à massacrer la population de la région d'Abyei. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1569111) - AGB’s difficulties already **started** in 1993-1994. Les difficultés de l’AGB ont **commencé** au cours des années 1993-1994. ([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 1357160) - A new reporting cycle has been **started**. Un nouveau cycle de rapports a **commencé**. ([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 22735251) - The dogs **started** barking. Les chiens ont **commencé** à aboyer. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#5355761](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5355761) [\#7016940](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7016940)) ## déjà Used about 1 429 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 138 · legal and administrative ≈ 118 · UN documents ≈ 1 173). - That is why the Commission has already **started** its preparatory work on the general features of a future new mechanism for the euro area. Voilà pourquoi la Commission a **déjà** entamé ses travaux préparatoires sur les caractéristiques générales du nouveau mécanisme pour la zone euro. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1441499) - Sernam has already **started** negotiations to ensure that by 1 January 2005 SNCF will be able to provide it with the recommended additional capacity. Sernam a d’ailleurs **déjà** entamé des négociations, pour qu’en date du 1 janvier 2005 la SNCF soit en mesure de lui fournir les capacités supplémentaires préconisées. ([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 806179) - These have already **started** their assignment. Ces comités subsidiaires ont **déjà** entamé leurs activités. ([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 17731480) - As has been mentioned, we had promised this communication earlier, but we **started** out on too narrow a basis, which did not offer a global perspective. Comme on l'a **déjà** mentionné, nous avions promis cette communication plus tôt, mais nous avons démarré sur une base trop étroite qui ne nous offrait pas une perspective globale. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 304659) - The Authority has, in certain circumstances, approved aid for projects where the construction work had already **started**, following a thorough assessment of the circumstances. Dans certaines circonstances, l’Autorité a autorisé une aide en faveur de projets dont les travaux de construction étaient **déjà** engagés, après évaluation approfondie des circonstances. ([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 5679133) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The ground **started** shaking. La terre s'est mise à trembler. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4499082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4499082) [\#9978119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9978119)) - I **started** this topic. J'ai ouvert ce sujet. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kebukebu and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#556794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/556794) [\#556988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/556988)) - The rainy season has **started**. Nous sommes entrés dans la saison des pluies. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sak\_sm · checked, community translation · [\#2243173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2243173) [\#4058226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4058226)) ## 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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