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Meaning: [circumstances in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/circumstances/). - Cela dépend des **circonstances**. It depends on the **circumstances**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3735770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3735770) [\#12311358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12311358)) - «Savez-vous, mon oncle, dis-je en marchant, que nous avons été singulièrement servis par les **circonstances** jusqu'ici! I said: "Uncle, do you know it seems to me that **circumstances** have wonderfully befriended us hitherto?" ([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 3583) - Dans ces **circonstances**, nous sommes prêts à nous montrer flexibles. We are prepared to allow flexibility in such **circumstances**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 543102) - des analyses des tendances, ajustées de façon adéquate pour rendre compte des **circonstances** propres à l'entité. trend analyses, adequately adjusted to reflect the entity's specific **circumstances**. ([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 4603364) - Article 4 **Circonstances** dans lesquelles des limitations Article 4. **Circumstances** under which limitations ([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 1883661) ## case Used about 1 392 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 235 · UN documents ≈ 1 155). Meaning: [case in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/case/). - Mais si j'ai commis un crime, toutes les **circonstances** de l'affaire en sont changées. But if I have committed a crime, every circumstance of the **case** is changed. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and teapot · checked, community translation · [\#1530079](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1530079) [\#1533678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1533678)) - la taille des colonnes à garnissage doit être appropriée afin d’éviter en toutes **circonstances** leur engorgement; in the **case** of packed columns, their size should be suitable to prevent flooding at all times; ([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 2827201) - Il est clair que le < < délai raisonnable > > varie selon les **circonstances** de l ' espèce. It is clear that what amounts to a reasonable time can vary according to the facts of the **case**. ([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 25939649) ## exceptional Used about 1 155 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 155). Meaning: [exceptional in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/exceptional/). - Dans des **circonstances** exceptionnelles, le requérant peut demander par écrit au Tribunal de suspendre, supprimer ou proroger les délais prévus au paragraphe 1 du présent article. 5. In **exceptional** cases, an applicant may submit a written request to the Dispute Tribunal seeking suspension, waiver or extension of the time limits referred to in article 7.1 above. ([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 24086795) ## under Used about 2 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1). Meaning: [under in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/under/). - Il est des **circonstances** dans lesquelles rompre une promesse ou proférer un mensonge sont admissibles. There are conditions **under** which breaking a promise or telling a lie are acceptable. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#950168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950168) [\#1968840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1968840)) - J’ai encore vu sous le soleil que la course n’est point aux agiles ni la guerre aux vaillants, ni le pain aux sages, ni la richesse aux intelligents, ni la faveur aux savants; car tout dépend pour eux du temps et des **circonstances**. I returned and saw **under** the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 9:11) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les **circonstances** semblent être le moule dans lequel se forme le caractère des hommes. Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#413858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/413858) [\#10862891](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10862891)) - Dans quelles **circonstances** le défaut est-il apparu ? When did the error occur? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kroko and kroko · checked, community translation · [\#749406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749406) [\#749408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749408)) - Les idées sont fondamentalement conservatrices. Ils ne cèdent pas à l'attaque d'autres idées, mais à l'avalanche de **circonstances** à laquelle ils ne peuvent faire face. Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#6287124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6287124) [\#8249912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8249912)) ## 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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