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Ça peut être **utilisé** comme un couteau. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Katastrauff · checked, community translation · [\#36547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/36547) [\#7723624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7723624)) - Can it also be **used** for this? L'enseignement peut-il être **utilisé** aussi à cette fin ? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 441722) - pH (reference of the test method **used**); Le pH (référence de la méthode d'essai **utilisée**). ([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 3538510) - Photos may not be **used** in advertising. Les photos ne peuvent être **utilisées** à des fins publicitaires. ([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 16068113) - Iodine is **used** to purify water. L'iode est **utilisé** pour purifier l'eau. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by orcrist and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2354292](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2354292) [\#13284845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13284845)) ## être Used about 7 456 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · literary ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 213 · UN documents ≈ 5 180). - She **used** to enjoy being with him. Elle prenait plaisir à **être** avec lui. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#887485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887485) [\#1357995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1357995)) - The poor child, who was **used** to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in confusion. La pauvre enfant, accoutumée à **être** battue, ne savait ce que cela voulait dire, et s'en allait toute honteuse. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9478) - However, much work is needed before the images can be **used**, and this is what is urgently needed at the moment. Cependant, un travail considérable doit **être** effectué avant de pouvoir utiliser les images, et c'est ce à quoi il faut s'atteler d'urgence actuellement. ([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 4469967) - Either of the following two techniques shall be **used**. L ' une ou l ' autre des deux méthodes suivantes doit **être** appliquée. ([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 15589154) - Language can be **used** in many ways. Le langage peut **être** employé de diverses manières. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rkqb and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1703315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1703315) [\#1703765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1703765)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tatoeba is a tool, which can be **used** with students in class. Tatoeba est un outil utilisable en classe avec des étudiants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mamat and pit · checked, community translation · [\#469681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/469681) [\#470821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/470821)) - I remember what Tom **used** to be like. Je me souviens de comment était Tom avant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Toynop · checked, community translation · [\#4499561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4499561) [\#5801746](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5801746)) - I'm **used** to eating alone. Je suis habituée à manger seule. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1429061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1429061) [\#10158586](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10158586)) ## 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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