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During his absence, Mr. Assan Drammeh, Counsellor, is **acting** as Chargé d ' affaires a.i. ([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 11123683) - Durant son absence, M. Joel M. Nhleko, Conseiller, exercera les fonctions de chargé d ' af-**faires** par intérim. During his absence, Mr. Joel M. Nhleko, Counsellor, is **acting** as Chargé d ' affaires a.i. ([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 9737980) - Durant son absence, M. Joel M. Nhleko, Conseiller, exercera les fonctions de chargé d ' af-**faires** par intérim. Durant his absence, Mr. Joel M. Nhleko, Counsellor, is **acting** as Chargé d ' affaires a.i. ([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 11124523) - Durant son absence, M. Ilgar Mammadov, Conseiller, exercera les fonctions de chargé d ' af-**faires** par intérim. During his absence, Mr. Ilgar Mammadov, Counsellor, is **acting** as Chargé d ' affaires a.i. ([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 16097056) - Durant son absence, M. Jone Draunimasi, Conseiller, exercera les fonctions de chargé d ' af-**faires** par intérim. During his absence, Mr. Jone Draunimasi, Counsellor, is **acting** as Chargé d ' affaires a.i. ([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 12674975) ## d Used about 7 469 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 262 · UN documents ≈ 7 207). Meaning: [d in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/d/). - Tu ferais mieux de **faire** ce qu'ils disent. You'**d** better do what they say. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CK · checked, community translation · [\#305196](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/305196) [\#1533411](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1533411)) - Objectif 4 : **Faire** connaître et évaluer les activités de la Plateforme, ses produits et ses conclusions. (**d**) Objective 4. Communicate and evaluate the Platform ' s activities, deliverables and findings. ([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 28355622) ## deputy Used about 7 207 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 7 207). Meaning: [deputy in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/deputy/). - M. Saleh Alnafeesi, Directeur général adjoint pour les af-**faires** de la jeunesse du Koweït, fait une déclaration. Mr. Saleh Alnafeesi, **Deputy** Director General for Youth Affairs of Kuwait, made a statement. ([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 2076788) ## representative Used about 7 207 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 7 207). Meaning: [representative in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/representative/). - Le Président dit qu ' il n ' a pas annoncé le début du vote et que le représentant de la Belgique est donc autorisé à **faire** une déclaration. 22. The Chairman said that he had not announced the beginning of voting and that the **representative** of Belgium was therefore entitled to make a statement. ([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 13286930) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - On lui demanda de le convaincre de **faire** peindre la maison par son fils ou quelqu'un d'autre. She was asked to convince him to get his son or someone else to paint the house. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#887541](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887541) [\#1405906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1405906)) - On va **faire** tout ce qu'on peut. We're going to do everything we can. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pititnatole and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3310841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3310841) [\#5364467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5364467)) - Cesse de **faire** celle qui n'est pas intéressée ! Stop playing hard to get. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1860597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1860597) [\#2058332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2058332)) ## 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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