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Meaning: [active in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/active/). - Ma mère est **active**. My mother is **active**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#65511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/65511) [\#10762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10762)) - Toute cette vie **active**, organisée, tranquille, reproduite autour de lui sous mille formes, lui fit mal. All this **active**, organized, tranquil life, recurring around him under a thousand forms, hurt him. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5848) - L'Union européenne doit être réellement **active**. The European Union must play a truly **active** role. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2046826) - Nombre d’entreprises **actives** Number of **active** enterprises ([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 5116103) - Sécurité **active** et passive Passive and **Active** Safety ([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 28060364) ## labour Used about 3 838 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 42 · legal and administrative ≈ 219 · UN documents ≈ 3 577). Meaning: [labour in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/labour/). - Le nombre des femmes **actives** sur le marché du travail européen est de 25 millions inférieur à celui des hommes. Twenty-five million fewer women than men participate in the European **labour** market. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 246383) - Population **active** et autres activités lucratives **Labour** force and other gainful activities ([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 4664823) - Labour Force Survey (Enquêtes sur la population **active**)1999-2000 & 2001-2002. **Labour** Force Survey 99-00 & 2001-2002. ([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 13457295) - Il s ' emploie en outre à rapprocher de manière **active** les offres et les demandeurs d ' emploi. Finances publiques The **Labour** Market Service also strives to actively match jobs with job seekers. ([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 26557464) - En 1994, 20,2 % de la population **active** était féminine et la femme est arrivée à occuper des postes de direction dans certains organismes gouvernementaux. In 1994, 20.2 per cent of the total **labour** force was composed of women. ([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 5839766) ## participation Used about 42 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 42). Meaning: [participation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/participation/). - Je me tourne maintenant vers le rapport de Mme Rühle sur la proposition d’un programme d’action pour la promotion de la citoyenneté européenne **active**. I now turn to the report by Mrs Rühle on the proposal for an action programme to promote civic **participation**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 527578) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Allez, il faut qu'on s'**active**. Come on, we need to hustle. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#6214570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6214570) [\#9936881](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9936881)) - Tu sais comment on **active** cet appareil ? Do you know how to turn this device on? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7792012](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7792012) [\#1204232](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1204232)) - **Active** le programme maintenant. Activate the program now. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11862361](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11862361) [\#11958787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958787)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## 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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