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Forms: semaine, semaines. - I need a **week**. J'ai besoin d'une **semaine**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2387472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2387472) [\#7763076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7763076)) - Many **weeks** had elapsed. Plusieurs **semaines** s'étaient écoulées. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3582) - In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole **weeks**. En ce temps-là, moi, Daniel, je fus trois **semaines** dans le deuil. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 10:2) - I spoke to Xerox this **week**. J'ai parlé avec Xerox cette **semaine**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1944366) - 3 **weeks** or since hatching 3 **semaines** ou depuis leur éclosion ([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 5205872) ## deux Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1). - The Fogg party dwindled more and more, everybody was going against him, and the bets stood a hundred and fifty and two hundred to one; and a **week** after his departure an incident occurred which deprived him of backers at any price. Or, on en était là, les partisans de Phileas Fogg se raréfiaient de plus en plus; tout le monde, et non sans raison, se mettait contre lui; on ne le prenait plus qu'à cent cinquante, à **deux** cents contre un, quand, sept jours après son départ, un incident, complètement inattendu, fit qu'on ne le prit plus du tout. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 277) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - A **week** later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. Huit jours après, Jean Valjean avait déménagé. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19553) - The ‘Carnatic’, its repairs being completed, left Hong Kong twelve hours before the stated time, without any notice being given; and we must now wait a **week** for another steamer.” Le Carnatic, ayant terminé ses réparations, a quitté Hong-Kong douze heures plus tôt sans prévenir personne, et maintenant il faudra attendre huit jours le prochain départ!» ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1541) - Nevertheless, you are not ignorant of the fact that Noël Lescrivain was condemned, a **week** ago, to pay ten Parisian sous, for having carried a cutlass. Vous n'ignorez pas pourtant que Noël Lescripvain a été condamné il y a huit jours en dix sols parisis pour avoir porté un braquemard. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1524) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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