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Meaning: [destruction in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/destruction/). - Le monde est au bord de la **destruction**. The world is on the edge of **destruction**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7793684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7793684) [\#8571321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8571321)) - La **destruction** et le malheur sont sur leur route; **Destruction** and misery are in their ways. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 3:16) - Combien ont coûté les **destructions** ? How much did the **destruction** cost? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 47262) - **Destruction** des armes recensées. **Destruction** of identified weapons. ([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 3179344) - et sur leur **destruction** and on Their **Destruction** ([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 8251930) ## weapons Used about 645 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 645). - La prévention de la prolifération des armes nucléaires constitue un pas décisif et nécessaire vers l ' interdiction et la **destruction** complètes des armes nucléaires. 1. Preventing the proliferation of nuclear **weapons** is an effective and necessary step towards the comprehensive prohibition and total elimination of nuclear weapons. ([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 26706058) ## caused Used about 51 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 51). - J'espère que la réaction de la Commission sera à la hauteur de cette tragédie : plus d'un million de sans-abri, des **destructions** innombrables. I hope that the Commission' s action will be fully adequate to this tragedy which has left more than a million people homeless and has **caused** immeasurable damage. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 161346) - Je voudrais également souligner que la nouvelle organisation commune des marchés devrait aussi réduire les nuisances à l'environnement résultant des **destructions** de récoltes. I should also like to point out that environmental damage **caused** by withdrawals from the market should be reduced by the common organization of the market. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1767390) ## property Used about 26 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 26). Meaning: [property in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/property/). - Les **destructions** représentent des sommes énormes. An enormous amount of valuable **property** has been destroyed. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 62042) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Après la **destruction** du mur, les Berlinois ont pu voir les deux côtés de Berlin en même temps pour la première fois depuis 1961. After the wall was torn down, Berliners could view the two sides of Berlin at once for the first time since 1961. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2297074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2297074) [\#2721841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2721841)) - Tu seras remplie d’ivresse et de douleur; C’est la coupe de désolation et de **destruction**, La coupe de ta sœur Samarie. You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 23:33) - C’est pourquoi j’ai traité en profanes les chefs du sanctuaire, J’ai livré Jacob à la **destruction**, Et Israël aux outrages. Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 43:28) ## 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. 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