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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5294557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5294557) [\#5688367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5688367)) - I therefore repeat: we must be **strict**, but fair. Donc je le répète: nous devons être **stricts**, mais équitables. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1177574) - Aid limited to the **strict** minimum Aide limitée au **strict** minimum ([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 1120782) - Where it existed, it was administered under **strict** conditions. Lorsqu ' ils sont appliqués, ils font l ' objet de conditions **strictes**. ([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 18680989) - I'm very **strict**. Je suis très **stricte**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5294557](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5294557) [\#5688368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5688368)) ## sévère Used about 961 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 124 · UN documents ≈ 822). - Their father is **strict**. Leur père est **sévère**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10691316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10691316) [\#10691328](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10691328)) - Those words, “make her your mistress,” entered the heart of the **strict** young man like a sword. Ce mot, fais-en ta maîtresse, entra dans le coeur du **sévère** jeune homme comme une épée. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22620) - Unfortunately, however, the proposed timetable is too **strict**. Néanmoins le calendrier proposé est malheureusement trop **sévère**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 86961) - (f) The particularly **strict** regime applied to prisoners serving life sentences; f) Un régime particulièrement **sévère** est appliqué aux détenus purgeant des peines d ' emprisonnement à perpétuité; ([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 10346400) - Is your father **strict**? Votre père est-il **sévère** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#9857847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9857847) [\#2119312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2119312)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I'm on a **strict** diet. Je suis au régime sec. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Toutanmemtan · checked, community translation · [\#5346804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5346804) [\#5682881](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5682881)) - When he was in the military, he conformed to the **strict** army rules. Lorsqu'il était dans l'armée, il se conformait à ses règles rigides. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1317041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1317041) [\#1317042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1317042)) - I find that it's best to find a happy balance between originality and sticking to a **strict** standard. Je trouve que le mieux consiste à trouver un équilibre harmonieux entre l'originalité et la conformité à un canon rigoureux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slyfin and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4606238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4606238) [\#4609356](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4609356)) ## 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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