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Meaning: [must in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/must/). - Nous **devons** le réparer. We **must** fix this. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1637151](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1637151) [\#1638773](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1638773)) - Nous **devons** dire qu'elle était peu affligée de cette absence volontaire du pauvre bossu. We **must** admit that she was not much grieved by this voluntary absence on the part of the poor hunchback. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6332) - Mais nous **devons** échouer sur une île. But we **must** run aground on a certain island.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 27:26) - Que pouvons-nous et que **devons**-nous faire? What can and what **must** be done? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1165200) - Nous **devons** donc conjuguer les efforts et mieux associer ces deux domaines pour permettre aux jeunes apprentis européens d'acquérir une expérience professionnelle dans un autre État membre et de développer davantage leurs compétences. Therefore, efforts **must** be combined and there must be a better connection between these two policy areas so as to allow young European apprentices to gain professional experience in another Member State and further develop their skills. ([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 4129259) ## need Used about 11 670 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 244 · parliamentary ≈ 6 941 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 · UN documents ≈ 4 477). Meaning: [need in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/need/). - Nous **devons** agir rapidement. We **need** to act quickly. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3178487](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3178487) [\#7776423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7776423)) - Nous **devons** rester en alerte. We really **need** to keep on the edge of our seats. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1086130) - Afin de libérer la capacité d’innovation de l’Europe, nous **devons** permettre de créer plus facilement des connexions transdisciplinaires (intersectorielles et interdisciplinaires), In order to unlock Europe’s innovation capacity, transdisciplinary (intersectoral and interdisciplinary) connections **need** to be made easier, ([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 4127925) - Nous **devons** décider et agir maintenant. We **need** to decide and to act now. ([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 4794308) - Nous **devons** être un peu plus efficace. We **need** to be a little more efficient. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5619938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5619938) [\#5620071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5620071)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Nous **devons** commencer quelque part. We have to start somewhere. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2543918](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2543918) [\#7773505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7773505)) - Nous **devons** reconnaître cela. We have to acknowledge that. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4529789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4529789) [\#5899397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5899397)) - Nous **devons** être prudentes. We've got to be careful. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3310252](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3310252) [\#1791513](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1791513)) ## 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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