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Forms: building, buildings. - J'aime les vieux **bâtiments**. I like old **buildings**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Talwit and tjwhale · checked, community translation · [\#11035323](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11035323) [\#7269515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7269515)) - --Est-ce qu'on arrange les **bâtiments** comme ça à présent! “Is that the way **buildings** are treated nowadays?” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17951) - Il mesura la maison, qui avait cent coudées de longueur. La place vide, le **bâtiment** et ses murs, avaient une longueur de cent coudées. So he measured the temple, one hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the **building**, with its walls, one hundred cubits long; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 41:13) - La conception du **bâtiment** ne correspond pas tout à fait à mes goûts. The design of the **building** is not entirely to my taste. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2011034) - Nettoyage courant des **bâtiments** General cleaning of **buildings** ([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 1070126) ## construction Used about 3 178 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 48 · UN documents ≈ 3 121). Meaning: [construction in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/construction/). - C'est un travailleur du **bâtiment**. He's a **construction** worker. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1740827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1740827) [\#1741088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1741088)) - Le secteur du **bâtiment** offre un fort potentiel d'économies d'énergie. The **construction** sector offers great potential for energy savings. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1384790) - 7. Statistiques de l ' industrie et du **bâtiment**. 7. Industrial and **construction** statistics. ([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 1907950) - Vous êtes ouvrier du **bâtiment**, n'est-ce pas ? You're a **construction** worker, aren't you? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6241171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6241171) [\#11955273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11955273)) - Il y a en effet dans l'Union européenne entre 4,5 et 8 millions de sans-papiers travaillant dans le **bâtiment**, l'agriculture, l'hôtellerie et dans d'autres secteurs. There are in fact between 4.5 and 8 million illegal immigrants in the European Union working in **construction**, agriculture, hotels and other sectors. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1210337) ## energy Used about 24 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 24). Meaning: [energy in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/energy/). - Le règlement (CE) n° 1080/2006 a été modifié récemment pour permettre à tous les États membres d'améliorer l'efficacité énergétique des **bâtiments**. Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 was modified recently to allow all Member States to improve **energy** efficiency in homes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1338092) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Nous vivons tous dans le même **bâtiment** de la cité universitaire. We all live in the same dormitory. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1423247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1423247) [\#1436289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1436289)) - Le matelot est le grade de base des équipages de la Marine nationale, embarqué sur tous types de **bâtiments**. The seaman is the entry-level rank of Navy crew members, serving aboard various types of ships. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362947) [\#13362946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362946)) - Quand nous fûmes en vue de l’île de Chypre, nous la laissâmes à gauche, poursuivant notre route du côté de la Syrie, et nous abordâmes à Tyr, où le **bâtiment** devait décharger sa cargaison. When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for the ship was there to unload her cargo. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 21:3) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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