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Tom est un idiot **utile**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#7059527](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7059527) [\#7059523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7059523)) - This detail is important, and we regard it as **useful** to develop it at length; we should almost say, to underline it. Ce détail importe, et nous croyons **utile** de le développer; nous dirions presque, de le souligner. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3523) - who once was useless to you, but now is **useful** to you and to me. qui autrefois t’a été inutile, mais qui maintenant est **utile**, et à toi et à moi. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHM 1:11) - These figures prove that this is a **useful** policy. Ces quelques chiffres prouvent que cette politique est **utile**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 484252) - the mean **useful** voltage, la tension moyenne **utile**, ([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 1366292) ## très Used about 1 361 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 309 · UN documents ≈ 1 052). - We can naturally give a whole host of **useful** recommendations in this matter. Nous pouvons donner de **très** nombreux conseils à cet égard. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 333052) - Mini-hydros were an extremely **useful** and versatile solution, particularly in assisting rural development programmes. Les minicentrales hydroélectriques offrent une solution **très** intéressante et accommodante, en particulier à l ' appui de programmes de développement rural. ([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 12371442) - Annual reports are **useful**, but joint action is preferable, of course. Il est certainement **très** beau d' avoir des rapports annuels, mais ce serait mieux naturellement si nous pouvions mener des actions communes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 236757) - These matters must be tackled and resolved, and the reports suggest some very important and **useful** ways in which that can be done. Il faut résoudre ces problèmes. Les rapports indiquent quelques voies **très** importantes et intéressantes à explorer pour y parvenir. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1977553) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You have provided me with some very **useful** advice. Vous m'avez fourni quelques précieux conseils. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1320673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1320673) [\#1321906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1321906)) - Nothing is **useful** to anything. Rien ne sert à rien. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · [\#900283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/900283) [\#900281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/900281)) - That's **useful** to know. C'est bon à savoir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#9314660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9314660) [\#5754085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5754085)) ## 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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