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Le sel est une **substance** utile. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and Pharamp · checked, community translation · [\#25748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25748) [\#395587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/395587)) - That is the **substance**. Voilà pour la **substance**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 884058) - Any single related **substance** **Substance** apparentée prise isolément ([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 3836778) - **Substances** < PDWS below site. **Substances** < PDWS en dessous du site. ([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 25181645) - Bleach is a caustic **substance**. L'eau de Javel est une **substance** caustique. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#10613197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10613197) [\#11037583](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11037583)) ## matières Used about 17 192 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 64 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 449 · UN documents ≈ 14 679). - It is there that it is decided how to use and store **substances** and how to dispose of waste. C'est là que sont décidés le mode d'utilisation des **matières**, leur stockage et le mode d'élimination des déchets. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1734681) - Pectic **substances**, pectinates and pectates **Matières** pectiques, pectinates et pectates ([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 337915) - Elevated temperature **substances** 65 and 66 **Matières** transportées à haute température 65 - 66 ([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 8390902) - fabrics finished with normal dressings having a basis of amylaceous or similar **substances**; les tissus ayant subi les apprêts normaux de finissage à base de **matières** amylacées ou de matières analogues; ([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 4392097) - Packing of **substances** of Class 8, 32° (marginal 2801) Emballage des **matières** du 32° de la classe 8 (marginal 2801) ([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 3236928) ## fond Used about 10 696 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 708 · legal and administrative ≈ 490 · UN documents ≈ 9 498). - These are issues of **substance** not timetabling. Il s'agit là de questions de **fond** et non de calendrier. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1989314) - Some of the backlog appeals are, however, examined as to their **substance**. Une partie des recours en souffrance sont toutefois examinés sur le **fond**. ([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 3893772) - Ensuring a focus on **substance** and implementation 3. Privilégier le **fond** et l ' application pratique ([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 13772135) - I therefore have nothing against the **substance** of the convention. Je n'ai donc rien à redire sur le **fond**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1757290) - The Working Group approved the **substance** of paragraphs 21-23 unchanged. 42. Le Groupe de travail a approuvé les paragraphes 21 à 23 quant au **fond** sans modification. ([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 20169099) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - This **substance** is in solid state. Cette matière est à l'état solide. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1256899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1256899) [\#12004065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12004065)) - Unity, at the expense of **substance**, is useless. L'unité, aux dépends de l'essence, est inutile. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#13067306](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13067306) [\#13163474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13163474)) - Our Father that is in heaven, hallowed be your name; your kingdom come; your will be done, in earth as in heaven. Give to us this day our bread over other **substance**, and forgive to us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Notre Père qui es aux cieux ! Que ton nom soit sanctifié; que ton règne vienne; que ta volonté soit faite sur la terre comme au ciel. Donne-nous aujourd'hui notre pain quotidien ; pardonne-nous nos offenses, comme nous aussi nous pardonnons à ceux qui nous ont offensés ; ne nous induis pas en tentation, mais délivre-nous du mal. Car c'est à toi qu'appartiennent, dans tous les siècles, le règne, la puissance et la gloire. Amen ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by JeremyH and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#3937037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3937037) [\#7965993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7965993)) ## 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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