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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yakuwari and THURET · checked, community translation · [\#5388205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5388205) [\#3655764](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3655764)) - So again, heartfelt best **wishes**! Je **souhaite** encore une fois bonne chance au rapport. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1788657) - The author of which **wishes** that his identity be kept confidential. Dont l'auteur **souhaite** garder son identité confidentielle. ([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 826286) - May I take it that the Assembly **wishes** to do likewise? Puis-je considérer que l ' Assemblée **souhaite** agir de même? ([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 554948) - Everybody **wishes** for happiness. Chacun **souhaite** le bonheur. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shiawase and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#920171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/920171) [\#920495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/920495)) ## je Used about 3 718 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 82 · UN documents ≈ 3 634). - In spite of my irritation I was moved with these words, as well as with the violence my uncle was doing to his own **wishes** in making so hazardous a proposal. En dépit de mon irritation, **je** fus ému de ces paroles et de la violence que se faisait mon oncle pour tenir un pareil langage. ([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 1881) - If anyone **wishes** to protest against a situation such as that described by Mr Sacrédeus, I would suggest that they use the mechanisms outlined in Article 7. Si quelqu'un veut critiquer une situation telle que celle décrite par M. Sacrédeus, **je** présume que l'on aura recours aux mécanismes proposés dans l'article 7. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 203291) - May I take it that the Assembly **wishes** to adopt the draft resolution? Puis-**je** considérer que l ' Assemblée décide d ' adopter le projet de résolution? ([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 8551121) - May I take it that the Assembly **wishes** to adopt draft resolution A/64/L.3, as orally revised? Puis-**je** considérer que l ' Assemblée décide d ' adopter le projet de résolution A/64/L.3, tel qu ' oralement révisé? ([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 20046331) - I also leave her my best **wishes** for success, so that we can conclude very quickly what I have not been able to conclude. **Je** lui adresse aussi mes voeux de succès, de façon qu ' on puisse très vite conclure ce que je n ' ai pas été en mesure de conclure. ([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 1817161) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He **wishes** he had gone to the theater last night. Il aurait souhaité aller au théâtre hier soir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#296935](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/296935) [\#132123](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132123)) - She cremated him against his **wishes**. Elle l'a incinéré, contrairement à ses dernières volontés. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and parquette · checked, community translation · [\#887056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887056) [\#1023221](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1023221)) - Mr. Young **wishes** his son would study harder. M. Young aimerait que son fils travaille davantage. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#30172](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/30172) [\#377961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/377961)) ## 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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