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Meaning: [must in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/must/). - Ils savaient qu'ils **devaient** combattre ensemble pour défaire l'ennemi commun. They knew they **must** fight together to defeat the common enemy. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#802818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/802818) [\#1591855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1591855)) - De là d'affreux coins insondables où il semblait que **devaient** se blottir des araignées grosses comme le poing, des cloportes larges comme le pied, et peut-être même on ne sait quels êtres humains monstrueux. Hence horrible, unfathomable nooks where it seemed as though spiders as big as one’s fist, wood-lice as large as one’s foot, and perhaps even—who knows?—some monstrous human beings, **must** be hiding. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16143) - Tertio, il a été reconnu que ces négociations **devaient** se fonder sur les frontières de 1967. Thirdly, it has been recognised that negotiations **must** be based on the 1967 borders. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 505226) - Toutefois, les banques ont souligné qu'elles **devaient** opérer selon des critères commerciaux. However, the banks have stressed that they **must** operate according to commercial criteria. ([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 473602) - Elles ne **devaient** pas participer à la rédaction du rapport de l ' Etat partie. They should not be involved in drafting the State party ' s report; that **must** remain entirely a government responsibility. ([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 5174111) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Toutes deux ne **devaient** jamais plus se rencontrer. The two of them were never to meet again. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#61399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/61399) [\#1967494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1967494)) - Avant l'Internet, les amis et les amoureux **devaient** s'écrire. Before the Internet, friends and lovers had to correspond. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#1977842](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1977842) [\#1978198](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1978198)) - Ils **devaient** lire le livre de nombreuses fois. They had to read the book many times. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#306230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/306230) [\#580153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/580153)) ## 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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