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Forms: occidental, occidentale, occidentales, occidentaux. - Long live **Western** Sahara. Vive le Sahara **occidental**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10331945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10331945) [\#10896799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10896799)) - And, sharing his astonishment, but I think not his joy, I read on the **western** face of the block, in Runic characters, half mouldered away with lapse of ages, this thrice-accursed name: Et, partageant sa stupéfaction, sinon sa joie, je lus sur la face **occidentale** du bloc, en caractères runiques à demi-rongés par le temps, ce nom mille fois maudit: ([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 1403) - “‘For the **western** border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border. Votre limite **occidentale** sera la grande mer: ce sera votre limite à l’occident. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 34:6) - My constituency is Szczecin, in **Western** Pomerania. Ma circonscription est celle de Szczecin, en Poméranie **occidentale**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1079089) - Peninsular (**western**) Malaysia only. Malaisie péninsulaire (**occidentale**) seulement. ([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 1376284) ## ouest Used about 2 761 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 526 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 054 · UN documents ≈ 1 172). - All quiet on the **Western** Front. Tout est calme sur le front **ouest**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ulumills and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#1135218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1135218) [\#1718111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1718111)) - Perhaps we shall be more fortunate if we follow the **western** tunnel." Il est possible que nous soyons plus heureux en suivant le tunnel de l'**ouest**.» ([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 1870) - This is indicative of our political significance in both Eastern and **Western** Europe. C'est vous dire le poids politique qui est le nôtre, à l'Est comme à l'**Ouest** de l'Europe. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 900682) - Following the N228 in a **western** direction. En suivant la N228 en direction de l'**ouest**. ([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 3169435) - The Commission refused to permit any other **Western** Shoshone tribe or group to object or to be heard in the proceeding. La Commission a refusé d ' autoriser toute autre tribu ou groupe des Shoshones de l ' **Ouest** à soulever des exceptions ou à prendre part à la procédure. ([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 6367336) ## europe Used about 2 343 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 343). - **Western** Europe and other States Western **Europe** and other States ([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 24852333) - It is emerging on the continent of **western** Europe. Elle est en train de s ' amorcer en **Europe** de l ' Ouest continentale. ([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 7341797) ## balkans Used about 88 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 88). - During the working lunch, the situation in the **western** Balkans, in particular in Kosovo and Albania, was also discussed. Pendant le déjeuner de travail, les discussions ont porté sur la situation dans l'ouest des **Balkans**, en particulier au Kosovo et en Albanie. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1892824) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The end of the **Western** Roman Empire marks the beginning of the Middle Ages. La fin de l'Empire Romain d'Occident marque le début du Moyen Âge. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13934559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13934559) [\#13934560](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13934560)) - I like **westerns**. J'aime les westerns. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and aperitero · checked, community translation · [\#6600844](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6600844) [\#6601140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6601140)) - It is by no means certain that the Iranian authorities will change their policy under **Western** pressure, but they do want to entertain good relations with countries of the Union. Les autorités iraniennes modifieront-elles leur politique sous la pression de l'Occident? C'est très incertain. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1718575) ## 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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