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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#11619514](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11619514) [\#11628903](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11628903)) - I believe that is still a **valid** question. Je pense que la question est toujours **valable**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 710323) - Approval shall be **valid** for one year.’ L'agrément est **valable** une année.» ([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 1104763) - Number of **valid** ballots: 185 Nombre de bulletins **valables** : 185 ([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 14812893) - That isn't a **valid** comparison. Ce n'est pas une comparaison **valable**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10007720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10007720) [\#12941266](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12941266)) ## valide Used about 4 202 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 112 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 868 · UN documents ≈ 2 212). - Do you have a **valid** passport? As-tu un passeport **valide** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#4497758](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4497758) [\#6879610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6879610)) - If this is to be a truly **valid** exercise, however, realism should never give way to idealism. Mais pour que l'exercice soit pleinement **valide**, le réalisme ne doit jamais laisser place à l'idéalisme. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1504738) - Incorporating all **valid** text up to: Comprenant tout le texte **valide** jusqu'à: ([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 5515978) - Incorporating all **valid** text up to: Comprenant tout le texte **valide** jusqu ' à: ([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 29913192) - Do you have a **valid** passport? Avez-vous un passeport **valide** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#4497758](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4497758) [\#6879612](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6879612)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - This agreement becomes **valid** at midnight. Ce contrat prend effet à partir de minuit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by vencxjo and bourdu · checked, community translation · [\#3053056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3053056) [\#354782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/354782)) - Do you think your choice is **valid**? Tu penses que ton choix est légitime ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and madjidoumnia · checked, community translation · [\#13880808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13880808) [\#10476817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10476817)) - I think those are **valid** concerns. Je trouve que ce sont des préoccupations légitimes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6088131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6088131) [\#12623593](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12623593)) ## 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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