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Je perdrai du **poids**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2247780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2247780) [\#1593888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1593888)) - And in truth this instrument would become useless as soon as the **weight** of the atmosphere should exceed the pressure ascertained at the level of the sea. Cet instrument allait, en effet, nous devenir inutile, du moment que le **poids** de l'air dépasserait sa pression calculée au niveau de l'Océan. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1534) - Shall I tolerate dishonest scales, and a bag of deceitful **weights**? Est-on pur avec des balances fausses, Et avec de faux **poids** dans le sac? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MIC 6:11) - Human rights or profits: two **weights**, two measures. Droits de l'homme ou profits : deux **poids**, deux mesures. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 415091) - Avg mass of **weights** **Poids** moyen des lests ([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 4649005) ## pondérations Used about 13 956 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 100 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 857 · UN documents ≈ 2 998). Forms: pondération, pondérations. - What is the risk of the assets on the balance sheets, and can you trust the risk **weights** applied to those assets? Quel est le risque des actifs dans les bilans, et peut-on se fier aux **pondérations** des risques appliquées à ces actifs? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1552819) - SUBJECT TO RISK **WEIGHTS** FAISANT L'OBJET DE **PONDÉRATIONS** ([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 5386317) - Errors in expenditure **weights** Erreurs dans les coefficients de **pondération** des dépenses ([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 5131777) - Poland and Spain should be reminded that their intransigence over the reform of voting **weights** in Council is perilous politics as well as poor mathematics. Il conviendrait en outre de rappeler à la Pologne et à l’Espagne que leur intransigeance dans la réforme de la **pondération** des voix au Conseil traduit à la fois une politique périlleuse et un calcul mathématique déplorable. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 503572) - Methods to calculate risk **weights** do not apply Les méthodes de calcul des **pondérations** ne s'appliquent pas ([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 3349015) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You don't need to throw your **weight** around. Inutile de jouer les gros bras. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mccarras and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8985307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8985307) [\#10521825](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10521825)) - He's put on **weight** recently. Il a grossi ces derniers temps. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#8836939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8836939) [\#932049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/932049)) - In the desert, water is worth its **weight** in gold. Dans le désert, l'eau vaut son pesant d'or. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6569183](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6569183) [\#6569802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6569802)) ## 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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