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By style: everyday 526 · literary 37 · biblical 18 · parliamentary 5 532 · legal and administrative 10 431 · UN documents 75 814. ## short Used about 53 350 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 393 · literary ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 4 322 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 127 · UN documents ≈ 39 486). Forms: short, shorter. Meaning: [short in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/short/). - Il a les cheveux **courts**. He has **short** hair. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1946905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1946905) [\#1947395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1947395)) - Soudain il s'arrêta **court**. All at once, he stopped **short**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25252) - Le triomphe des méchants a été **court**, Et la joie de l’impie momentanée? that the triumphing of the wicked is **short**, the joy of the godless but for a moment? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 20:5) - Avez-vous la mémoire **courte**? Are our memories so **short**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1992269) - Utilisation de bains **courts** The use of **short** floats ([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 2775636) ## court Used about 28 560 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 29 · legal and administrative ≈ 489 · UN documents ≈ 28 035). Forms: court, courts. Meaning: [court in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/court/). - Il y a des **courts** de tennis dans ce parc. There are tennis **courts** in this park. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2259475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2259475) [\#11180005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11180005)) - Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, Ah! que du bonheur les instants sont **courts**! Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, Mais que du bonheur les instants sont **courts**! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17049) - . - Monsieur le Président, c’est un honneur de pouvoir conclure ce débat sur les discussions de Hampton **Court**. . Mr President, it is an honour to conclude this debate today on the discussions that took place at Hampton **Court**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 742461) - Travaux de nivelage de **courts** de tennis Flatwork for tennis **court** ([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 1494856) - Temporary suspension of **court** decisions Temporary suspension of **court** decisions ([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 13875571) ## term Used about 844 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 54 · UN documents ≈ 790). Meaning: [term in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/term/). - il est acquis ou pris en charge principalement en vue d'être vendu ou racheté à **court** terme; is acquired or incurred principally for the purpose of selling or repurchasing it in the near **term**; ([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 4102426) - Cette évolution était encourageante et donnait des raisons d ' espérer que les objectifs de développement à **court** terme et à plus long terme pourraient être atteints. These developments constituted hopeful signs for the realization of immediate and longer-**term** development objectives. ([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 1341619) - Les objectifs à **court** terme sont les suivants : obtenir plus de microdonnées ainsi que des données sur les changements climatiques, et aider les pays à rendre leurs données plus accessibles Continuous expansion; near-**term** objectives include additional microdata holdings, climate change data and helping countries make their data more accessible ([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 24738542) ## very Used about 180 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 173). Meaning: [very in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/very/). - Il **court** très vite. He runs **very** fast. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#291572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/291572) [\#131138](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131138)) - --Ah! c'était un brave ami, bien dévoué, bien fidèle, un homme rare, par le temps qui **court**. “Ah, he was a good friend, **very** devoted, very faithful, a rare soul in these days.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 346) - Il envoie ses ordres sur la terre: Sa parole **court** avec vitesse. He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs **very** swiftly. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 147:15) - Pour conclure, deux commentaires très **courts** concernant les amendements relatifs aux filets maillants dérivants. Finally, two **very** brief comments on the amendments relating to drift nets. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1823979) - Le lendemain M. Leblanc et sa fille ne firent au Luxembourg qu'une **courte** apparition; ils s'en allèrent qu'il faisait grand jour. On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a **very** brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad daylight. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15518) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Portes-tu ce pantalon **court** pour souligner l'appauvrissement esthétique que tu as subi pendant la dernière décennie ? Do you wear those shorts to emphasise the aesthetic impoverishment you've been suffering this past decade? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12042894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12042894) [\#542768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/542768)) - Kumiko **court** aussi vite que Tom. Kumiko runs as fast as Tom. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sushiman and CN · checked, community translation · [\#62978](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/62978) [\#400847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/400847)) - J'ai été pris de **court** par sa réaction. I was blindsided by his reaction. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#12904049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12904049) [\#12904052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12904052)) ## 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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