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Meaning: [mind in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mind/). - Tom a perdu l'**esprit**. Tom lost his **mind**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5103530](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5103530) [\#1697013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1697013)) - Machine faite d'**esprit**. A machine made of **mind**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19265) - Nos **esprits** doivent s’ouvrir. We all need to open our **minds**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 778647) - Il convient de garder à l’**esprit** la population cible spécifique et les populations exposées au produit par ailleurs. The specific target population and the populations otherwise exposed to the product should be kept in **mind**. ([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 2821989) - Ils ont conquis nos coeurs et nos **esprits**. They captured our hearts; they captured our **minds**. ([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 8911613) ## spirit Used about 22 100 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 72 · literary ≈ 25 · biblical ≈ 472 · parliamentary ≈ 1 703 · legal and administrative ≈ 388 · UN documents ≈ 19 440). Forms: spirit, spirits. Meaning: [spirit in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/spirit/). - Crois-tu aux **esprits** ? Do you believe in **spirits**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4049004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4049004) [\#890082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/890082)) - On est tout bêtement un garçon d'**esprit**. One simply behaves like a fellow of **spirit**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22597) - Les **esprits** des prophètes sont soumis aux prophètes; The **spirits** of the prophets are subject to the prophets, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:32) - Nous devons aujourd'hui continuer les réformes dans le même **esprit**. We must now continue the reforms in the same **spirit**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 922242) - Cl acide noir 2, **esprit** soluble de nigrosine sulfoné CI acid black 2, sulfonated nigrosine **spirit** soluble ([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 793224) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Une merveilleuse idée me vint à l'**esprit**. A wonderful idea occurred to me. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#273933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/273933) [\#129011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129011)) - Rousseau était fou, mais influent; Hume était sain d'**esprit**, mais n'avait pas de disciples. Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#714763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/714763) [\#870572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/870572)) - Je n'ai pas votre **esprit**. I don't have your wit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2276063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2276063) [\#2502818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2502818)) ## 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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