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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Umino and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#5146406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5146406) [\#12543074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12543074)) - **Thus**, idleness is the mother. **Ainsi** la paresse est mère. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21287) - **Thus**, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise. Et c’est **ainsi** qu’Abraham, ayant persévéré, obtint l’effet de la promesse. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 6:15) - **Thus** all participants have chosen to postpone making a decision. **Ainsi**, tous les participants ont choisi de reporter la décision. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 535142) - **Thus**, overall, that adverse scenario could be managed by the bank. La banque pourrait **ainsi** globalement maîtriser ce scénario défavorable. ([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 2800308) ## donc Used about 38 991 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 4 088 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 124 · UN documents ≈ 26 754). - It **thus** follows that... Il s'ensuit **donc**, que ... ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#484975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/484975) [\#479895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/479895)) - Their fortunes were **thus** approximately equal, and certainly the young widow attracted him greatly. La fortune était **donc** à peu près équivalente, et la jeune veuve assurément lui plaisait beaucoup. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1496) - For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge **thus**: that one died for all, therefore all died. Car l’amour de Christ nous presse, parce que nous estimons que, si un seul est mort pour tous, tous **donc** sont morts; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 5:14) - This report is **thus** not 'hard' or 'soft'. Ce rapport n’est **donc** pas «ferme» ou «clément». ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 632952) - These claims were **thus** rejected. Ces arguments ont **donc** été rejetés. ([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 5262724) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Thus** Do They All. Elles le font toutes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MrShoval and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#1458688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1458688) [\#10540973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10540973)) - And he said to Jacob: Why hast thou done **thus**, to carry away, without my knowledge, my daughters as captives taken with the sword? Alors Laban dit à Jacob : Qu’as-tu fait ? Pourquoi m’as-tu trompé, et emmènes-tu mes filles comme des captives par l’épée ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7827421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7827421) [\#8088484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8088484)) - **Thus**, this is an ad hoc solution - good in practice but theoretically weak. Alors, c'est une solution ad hoc, elle est bonne en pratique mais théoriquement faible. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais2 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#795223](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/795223) [\#795222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/795222)) ## 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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