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Meaning: [favour in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/favour/). - J'ai une **faveur** à requérir. I have a **favour** to ask. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1111576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1111576) [\#1111918](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1111918)) - --Monsieur, répondit résolument Fix, j'allais vous demander cette **faveur**. “Thanks, sir; I was about to ask the **favour**.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1603) - Je plaide au contraire en **faveur** d'un processus ouvert. I am however in **favour** of an open process. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 447105) - Le plaignant estime par conséquent que l’aide en **faveur** de l’ensemble IFP/Axens s’élève à 50 millions EUR par an. The complainant accordingly estimates the aid in **favour** of the IFP/Axens entity at EUR 50 million a year. ([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 1661335) - Demande des **faveurs** sexuelles à autrui ou Requests sexual **favours** from other persons or ([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 26088723) ## voted Used about 815 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 811). - Il a voté en **faveur** de la proposition. He **voted** for the proposal. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#291176](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/291176) [\#4706485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4706485)) - J'ai voté en **faveur** de cette résolution. I **voted** for this resolution. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1447947) - Ces quelques remarques faites, je vote en **faveur** de la résolution. For these reasons, I **voted** for the resolution. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 240436) - Je me réjouis donc - et j'ai donc voté en **faveur** - de ce rapport parce que le Conseil de Göteborg a pris cette voie. I rejoice at this and so I **voted** for this report because the Gothenburg Council has started out along this path. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 214709) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il était en **faveur** de l'égalité pour tous. He was in favor of equality for all. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#290360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/290360) [\#132817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132817)) - Me feras-tu une **faveur** ? Will you do me a favor? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#64695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/64695) [\#1328995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1328995)) - Je veux juste vous retourner la **faveur**. I just want to make it up to you. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2015190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2015190) [\#11064358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11064358)) ## 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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