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Forms: transport, transports. - We use public **transport**. Nous utilisons les **transports** publics. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mojeanin and lapinhibou · checked, community translation · [\#6472238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6472238) [\#6467313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6467313)) - On the previous evening, Marius, in a **transport**, had pushed Cosette against the wall. La veille au soir, Marius, dans un **transport**, avait pressé Cosette contre le mur. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21901) - What about the public **transport** sector, though? Mais qu'en est-il du **transport** public? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1275145) - Announcement of special **transports** Annonce de **transports** spéciaux ([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 4752853) - Ministère des **Transports**, des Ministère des **Transports**, des ([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 4342715) ## animaux Used about 542 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 542). - We must recognise that nobody **transports** animals for the fun of it. Nous devons reconnaître que personne ne transporte les **animaux** pour le plaisir. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 577027) - Anyone who goes on to handle animals in the course of their work, who farms them or **transports** them, must have a certificate proving their suitability and skills. Celui qui, plus tard, dans son métier, s'occupera d'**animaux**, les élèvera ou les transportera devra prouver ses capacités par le biais d'un certificat. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 200113) - Then I should like to start with the provocative question: why do we actually have animal **transports**, if everything is so terrible as has been depicted here? Cela étant dit, je voudrais directement poser la question provocatrice suivante: Pourquoi persister transporter des **animaux** quand tout cela est rendu si difficile, comme cela vient d'être dit? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1766997) ## marchandises Used about 361 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 361). - Every locomotive - whether it **transports** passengers or goods - must pay a rail toll for every kilometre it travels. Chaque locomotive - qu'elle transporte des voyageurs ou des **marchandises** - doit payer un péage ferroviaire pour chaque kilomètre parcouru. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1567081) - We must see the bigger picture, as the saying goes, because if we **transport** goods in Europe the expensive way, so that pollution increases, who will pay? Nous devons voir le résultat d’ensemble comme on dit, car si nous transportons des **marchandises** en Europe en empruntant la voie coûteuse, en augmentant la pollution, qui paiera? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 539063) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The arteries **transport** oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the tissues. Les artères transportent le sang riche en oxygène du cœur vers les tissus. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8325958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8325958) [\#12730427](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12730427)) - In the past, the gravedigger would dig graves by hand, **transport** bodies with ox-drawn carts, and maintain the tombs. Autrefois, le fossoyeur creusait à la main les fosses, transportait les corps avec des chariots tirés par des bœufs et entretenait les tombes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13585519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13585519) [\#13585517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13585517)) - Nerve cells **transport** information collectively, organizing their actions like a school of fish swimming together or fireflies synchronizing their flashing lights. Les cellules nerveuses transportent l’information collectivement, organisant leurs actions à la manière de poissons nageant ensemble en bancs ou de lucioles synchronisant leurs lumières clignotantes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#13807519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13807519) [\#913955](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/913955)) ## 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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