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Meaning: [knowledge in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/knowledge/). - J'ai soif de **connaissances**. I have a thirst for **knowledge**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and felidad · checked, community translation · [\#10570660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10570660) [\#3247192](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3247192)) - Tout homme prudent agit avec **connaissance**, Mais l’insensé fait étalage de folie. Every prudent man acts from **knowledge**, but a fool exposes folly. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 13:16) - Les **connaissances** et les budgets ne font pas tout. **Knowledge** and funds are not everything. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1038420) - **Connaissance** du matériel roulant **Knowledge** of rolling stock ([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 2544641) - La gestion des savoirs et **connaissances** **Knowledge** management in the United Nations system ([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 18026670) ## know Used about 4 147 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 234 · UN documents ≈ 3 862). Meaning: [know in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/know/). - Je veux faire ta **connaissance**. I want to get to **know** you. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2012461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2012461) [\#2435658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2435658)) - Que sais-tu que nous ne sachions pas? Quelle **connaissance** as-tu que nous n’ayons pas? What do you **know** that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 15:9) - À ma **connaissance**, cette décision n'a pas encore été prise et il nous faut donc être clairs quant à nos intentions dans le cadre de ces débats. As far as I **know** this decision has not yet been taken and, therefore, we need to be clear about what we are trying to do in these debates. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 307488) - À notre **connaissance**, ce phénomène touche aussi tous les autres pays. As far as we **know**, it is a problem for every other country also. ([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 22653088) - Elles ont **connaissance** de nos projets. They **know** our plans. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2647592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2647592) [\#4910606](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4910606)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Le seigneur démon perdit enfin **connaissance** et tomba au sol avec un bruit sourd. The demon lord finally lost consciousness and fell to the floor with a thud. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by SUZIE and blay\_paul · checked, community translation · [\#451543](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/451543) [\#535794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/535794)) - Dès que j'ai eu **connaissance** de l'existence de l'université, j'ai voulu y aller. As long as I've known about the existence of the university, I've wanted to go there. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2160128](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2160128) [\#2160603](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2160603)) - Il faut suffisamment d’informations pour décider en **connaissance** de cause. To make informed decisions we need sufficient information. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#3186449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3186449) [\#8608154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8608154)) ## 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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