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Meaning: [state in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/state/). - L'Algérie ne deviendra pas un autre **Etat** raté. Algeria won't become another failed **state**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10136763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10136763) [\#12480437](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12480437)) - Nous ne pouvons pas forcer un **Etat** membre à participer. We cannot force any Member **State** to participate. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1663470) - Prétendument Secrétaire d'**Etat** chargé des handicapés: Supposedly **State** Secretary for the Disabled: ([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 2331929) - Ligue des **Etats** arabes League of Arab **States** ([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 2954404) - Toute l'Histoire le montre : les idiomes des **Etats** dominants conduisent souvent à la disparition de ceux des **Etats** dominés. Le grec a englouti le phrygien. Le latin a tué l'ibère et le gaulois. A l'heure actuelle, 25 langues disparaissent chaque année ! Comprenez bien une chose : je ne me bats pas contre l'anglais ; je me bats pour la diversité. Un proverbe arménien résume merveilleusement ma pensée : « Autant tu connais de langues, autant de fois tu es un homme. » All history shows: idioms of dominant **states** often lead to the disappearance of the languages of the dominated states. Greek engulfed the Phrygian. Latin killed the Iberian and Gallic. Currently, 25 languages are disappearing every year! Understand one thing: I'm not fighting against English, I fight for diversity. An Armenian proverb wonderfully summarizes my thought: "The more languages you know, the more you are a person." ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Malape and Malape · checked, community translation · [\#3366838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3366838) [\#3366835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3366835)) ## member Used about 4 252 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 766 · legal and administrative ≈ 36 · UN documents ≈ 3 450). Meaning: [member in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/member/). - Vous avez dit que les différents **Etats** membres ont été consultés. You said that the **Member** States were consulted. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1663176) - Montant recouvrable de ou payable à l'**Etat** Membre Amount to be recovered from or paid to the **Member** State. ([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 803195) - c) sans préjudice des accords internationaux existants auxquels les **Etats** Membres sont partie, un **Etat** Membre a le droit : (c) without prejudice to existing international agreements to which Members are parties, a **Member** has the right: ([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 5486757) - Toutefois, certains **Etats** membres n'ont pas utilisé l'allocation prévue. Some **Member** States, however, have not taken up the allocation. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1614772) - Montant à recouvrer de (–) ou à payer à (+) l'**Etat** membre en vertu de la présente décision \[1\] Amomunt to be recovered from (–) or paid to (+) the **Member** State under this Decision \[1\] ([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 859455) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les **Etats**-Unis ne défendront pas Taïwan de manière directe. The US won't directly defend Taiwan. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11071614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11071614) [\#12480448](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12480448)) - Les **Etats**-Unis ne protégeront pas Taïwan. The US won't protect Taiwan. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10694022](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10694022) [\#12480397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12480397)) - Les **Etats**-Unis ne défendront pas Taïwan directement. The US won't directly defend Taiwan. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11071614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11071614) [\#12480447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12480447)) ## 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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