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By style: everyday 397 · literary 136 · biblical 432 · parliamentary 5 647 · legal and administrative 9 964 · UN documents 236 933. ## states Used about 49 949 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 588 · UN documents ≈ 49 361). - La manifestation dans son ensemble aurait été beaucoup plus symbolique, si des artistes venant de tous les États membres y **avaient** été invités. The entire event would have achieved a far greater symbolism if artists from all of the Member **States** had been invited. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 920548) - Il a signalé que les 37 États et le Gouvernement fédéral **avaient** accru leur financement de l ' enseignement de base. It reported an increase in funding to basic education by all 37 **states** and the federal Government. ([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 14600612) - On a pu constater ces dernières années que les efforts de la Turquie pour devenir un État membre de l'Union européenne **avaient** des effets positifs. Recent years have shown that Turkey's efforts to become one of the European Union's Member **States** are having positive effects. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1515230) - 21. Au 5 mai 2005, 192 États **avaient** ratifié la Convention relative aux droits de l ' enfant ou y **avaient** adhéré. 21. As at 5 May 2005, the Convention on the Rights of the Child had been ratified or acceded to by 192 **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 13895483) - Le fait que l'Union européenne allait s'occuper de questions qui **avaient** toujours été au cur des États constituait une grande innovation. It was a great innovation that the European Union was going to deal with issues which had always been at the heart of the 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 225671) ## said Used about 10 075 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 58 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 118 · UN documents ≈ 9 872). Meaning: [said in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/said/). - Elles dirent qu'elles **avaient** soif. They **said** they're thirsty. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3737626](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3737626) [\#6863825](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6863825)) - Jérémie dit alors à tout le peuple, aux hommes, aux femmes, à tous ceux qui lui **avaient** fait cette réponse: Then Jeremiah **said** to all the people—to the men and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 44:20) - Les programmes législatifs, nous **avaient**-on dit, **avaient** été réduits de 35 000 pages. Legislative programmes were **said** to be reduced by 35 000 pages. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 521649) - Depuis 2008, les recettes provenant des ressources ordinaires **avaient** plus que doublé, passant de 60 à 130 millions de dollars en 2012. Since 2008, regular resources income had more than doubled, he **said**, increasing from $60 million to $130 million in 2012. ([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 27899116) - Ils ont dit qu’ils **avaient** besoin d’un chapeau. They **said** they needed a hat. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dolomitt and Luornu · checked, community translation · [\#10933085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10933085) [\#8275473](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8275473)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les enfants étaient ravis de voir leurs grands-parents qu'ils n'**avaient** pas vus depuis assez longtemps. The children were delighted to see their grandparents whom they had not seen for quite a long time. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#245758](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/245758) [\#461228](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/461228)) - Ils **avaient** tous la voix rauque après avoir tant crié. They were all hoarse from shouting. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marioo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#32100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32100) [\#8031612](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8031612)) - Les chats **avaient** vu les oiseaux. The cats saw the birds. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by martin9 and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13081621](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13081621) [\#4924255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4924255)) ## 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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