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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#3439739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3439739) [\#3712391](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3712391)) - **Three** hours pass away. **Trois** heures se passent. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3006) - For there are **three** who testify: Car il y en a **trois** qui rendent témoignage: ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1JO 5:7) - These are my **three** questions. Telles sont mes **trois** questions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 5609) - the Administrative Board shall meet at least **three** times a year. le conseil d'administration se réunit au moins **trois** fois par an. ([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 3356399) ## ans Used about 31 743 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 31 743). - Increasing childcare provision for under **threes** (statutory right to public childcare planned for 2013) Améliorer les services de garderie pour les enfants âgés de moins de 3 **ans** (le droit à des services de garde publics est prévu pour 2013). ([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 20797560) - 67. Ms. HERCZOG asked whether Wales had an early childhood development programme for under-**threes**. 67. Mme HERCZOG demande s ' il existe au Pays de Galles un programme de développement de la petite enfance pour les enfants de moins de 3 **ans**. ([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 18872529) - Ensure that under-**threes** and undernourished pregnant women receive subsidized basic foodstuffs fortified with micronutrients. veiller à ce que les enfants de moins de 3 **ans** et les femmes enceintes dénutries reçoivent des aliments de base fortifiés avec des oligo-éléments, subventionnés par l ' Etat. ([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 22488436) - In the under-**threes** age group 14.700 additional places would be needed, and in the age band of **three**-to-six-year-olds there is a demand for 6.000 additional places. Dans le groupe d ' âge inférieur à 3 **ans**, 14 700 places supplémentaires seraient nécessaires et dans le groupe d ' âge de 3 à 6 ans 6 000 places supplémentaires. ([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 11809195) - 375. Steady progress has been made in fortifying children ' s fruit purées (for under-**threes**) with ferrous lactate (2 mg) and ascorbic acid (at least 30 mg). 375. Nous n ' avons pas cessé de fortifier les purées de fruits pour bébés - destinées aux enfants de moins de 3 **ans** - avec du lactate ferreux (2 mg) et de l ' acide ascorbique (30 mg minimum). ([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 22488596) ## enfants Used about 3 527 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 527). - 235. Forty-six per cent of under-**threes** in the regions of Dakar, Thiès, Diourbel and Saint Louis suffer from parasitic infestation of the digestive tract. 235. Les parasites digestifs atteignent 46% des **enfants** de 0 à 36 mois dans les régions de Dakar, Thiès, Diourbel et Saint Louis. ([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 15263758) ## mois Used about 38 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38). - Tom was born **three** months earlier than me. Tom est né 3 **mois** avant moi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by end and blizb · checked, community translation · [\#10768194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10768194) [\#11162627](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11162627)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The “China,” for Liverpool, had started **three**-quarters of an hour before! DANS LEQUEL PHILEAS FOGG ENGAGE UNE LUTTE DIRECTE CONTRE LA MAUVAISE CHANCE ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2797) - Part two is interoperability, in other words, that transport can take place between countries with different systems. Part **three** is still to come. La deuxième partie est l' interopérabilité, c' est-à-dire que des transports peuvent avoir lieu entre des pays ayant des systèmes différents. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 152276) - Cologne had based its hypothesis for an employment pact on **three** pillars, but too little is said about the third pillar, the liberalisation of the markets. Mais on parle trop peu du troisième pilier, à savoir celui de la libéralisation des marchés. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2026630) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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