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Forms: souffrance, souffrances, souffre. - Why are we **suffering**? Pourquoi **souffre**-t-on ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and megamanenm · checked, community translation · [\#5752189](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5752189) [\#12356900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12356900)) - “Yes, sir, the people have been **suffering** a long while. --Oui, monsieur, il y a longtemps que le peuple **souffre**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 880) - For as the **sufferings** of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ. Car, de même que les **souffrances** de Christ abondent en nous, de même notre consolation abonde par Christ. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 1:5) - I am also **suffering**. Je **souffre** de la même chose. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 70949) - v. The actual **suffering** of the animal in the procedure should be reported. La **souffrance** réelle de l'animal dans la procédure doit être prise en compte. ([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 2540806) ## peuple Used about 995 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 113 · UN documents ≈ 882). - The Finno-Ugric Mari people are currently **suffering** severe discrimination. Le **peuple** Mari finno-ougrien est actuellement victime d’une grave discrimination. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 652326) - It was as an impoverished and **suffering** people that we greeted our liberation. C ' est en **peuple** appauvri et meurtri que nous avons salué notre libération. ([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 1648251) - They deserve all the support we can give to them and to the **suffering** people of Zimbabwe. Ils méritent de recevoir tout le soutien que nous pouvons leur apporter et que nous pouvons apporter au **peuple** du Zimbabwe qui souffre. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 426775) - Let us remember why the Iraqi people are **suffering** in this way and the fate of the efforts which have been made to help them. N ' oublions pas les raisons pour lesquelles le **peuple** iraquien souffre de cette façon et le sort réservé aux efforts déployés pour l ' aider. ([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 2522431) - While we all sit at home, replete after a good supper, our TV screens show us depressing new evidence of the **sufferings** of a people plagued by drought and hunger. Pendant que nous savourons, le ventre plein, notre repas du soir, les nouvelles affligeantes d'un **peuple** éprouvé par la sécheresse et la faim passent à la télévision. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 46423) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom is **suffering** from cancer. Tom a le cancer. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2276370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2276370) [\#7414887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7414887)) - Nothing makes us greater than a great **suffering**. Rien ne nous rend si grands qu'une grande douleur. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#910347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/910347) [\#909101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909101)) - I can't bear to see animals **suffering**. Je ne supporte pas de voir des animaux souffrir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7863755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7863755) [\#7967392](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7967392)) ## 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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