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Forms: africa, african. Meaning: [african in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/african/). - L'Afrique aux **africains**. **Africa** is for Africans. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rafik and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11203562](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11203562) [\#11394178](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11394178)) - Le capitaine, enivré, colla ses lèvres ardentes à ces belles épaules **africaines**. The intoxicated captain pressed his ardent lips to those lovely **African** shoulders. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4791) - Le Nigéria est une grande puissance **africaine**. Nigeria is a great power in **Africa**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1610880) - Peste porcine **africaine**/classique **African**/Classical swine fever ([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 416057) - RÉUNION PLÉNIÈRE DU GROUPE **AFRICAIN** **AFRICAN** GROUP OF THE WHOLE ([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 8267293) ## continent Used about 844 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 844). Meaning: [continent in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/continent/). - :: Élaborer un protocole additionnel à la Charte **africaine** des droits de l ' homme et des peuples :: To develop an additional protocol to the Charter for the protection of indigenous peoples in the **continent** ([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 18994133) ## countries Used about 844 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 844). - b) Nombre accru de pays **africains** qui harmonisent leurs politiques touchant à l ' intégration régionale avec les conventions et protocoles adoptés (b) Increased number of **countries** harmonizing their national policies towards achieving regional integration in accordance with the adopted conventions and protocols ([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 13112892) ## south Used about 17 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 17). Meaning: [south in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/south/). - La présidence est restée en contact quasi permanent avec les Sud-**Africains** tout en collaborant étroitement avec la Commission et les autres États membres. The presidency has remained in close touch with the **South** Africans throughout as well as working closely with the Commission and other Member States. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1851262) ## union Used about 17 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 17). Meaning: [union in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/union/). - L'Union pourrait peut-être apporter sa contribution et aider à créer les conditions pour permettre aux **Africains** de résoudre leurs conflits eux-mêmes. The **Union** could perhaps act as a facilitator, creating the right conditions to enable the Africans themselves to resolve their own conflicts. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1886789) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Nous sommes des **Africains**. We're Africans. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13626879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13626879) [\#13626900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13626900)) - Nous sommes **Africains**. We're Africans. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13626879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13626879) [\#13626897](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13626897)) - Là, pour les dieux s'élève un auguste édifice; / là, viendra l'innocence invoquer la justice ; / contre les flots grondants et les vents orageux / le commerce a ses ports ; le théâtre a ses jeux, / et déjà, de la scène ornements magnifiques, / les marbres **africains** sont taillés en portiques. Those clothe with awe / the Senate; there they choose the judges for the law. / These delve the port; the broad foundations there / they lay for theatres of ample space, / and columns, hewn from marble rocks, prepare, / tall ornaments, the future stage to grace. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#6789616](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6789616) [\#6626788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6626788)) ## 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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