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Forms: foundation, foundations. Meaning: [foundation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/foundation/). - Cette maison a de solides **fondations**. This house has a solid **foundation**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mamat and CK · checked, community translation · [\#60134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/60134) [\#647173](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/647173)) - Toutes deux, l'une en 1652, l'autre en 1653, firent donation de sommes notables à la mère Catherine de Bar, dite du Saint-Sacrement, religieuse bénédictine, pour fonder, dans ce but pieux, un monastère de l'ordre de Saint-Benoît; la première permission pour cette **fondation** fut donnée à la mère Catherine de Bar par Mr de Metz, abbé de Saint-Germain, «à la charge qu'aucune fille ne pourrait être reçue, qu'elle n'apportât trois cents livres de pension, qui font six mille livres au principal». Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for this **foundation** was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé of Saint-Germain, “on condition that no woman could be received unless she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six thousand livres, to the principal.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10825) - prédestiné avant la **fondation** du monde, et manifesté à la fin des temps, à cause de vous, who was foreknown indeed before the **foundation** of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 1:20) - Décharge 2008: **Fondation** européenne pour la formation 2008 discharge: European Training **Foundation** ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1377079) - Objectifs de la **fondation** Objectives of the **Foundation** ([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 216135) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Le moment est propice à la **fondation** d'une nouvelle organisation. It's an auspicious time to launch a new organization. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#8860366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8860366) [\#9192087](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9192087)) - Et depuis notre **fondation**, les Musulmans Américains ont enrichi les États-Unis. Ils ont combattu dans nos guerres, servi dans le gouvernement, défendu les droits civiques, entrepris des affaires, enseigné dans nos universités, excellé dans nos arènes sportives, emporté des prix Nobel, construit nos plus hauts bâtiments, et allumé la flamme olympique. And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our Universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and saeb · checked, community translation · [\#376901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/376901) [\#481737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/481737)) - La Russie doit contrôler l'Europe occidentale pour priver les États-Unis de ses alliés dans la partie occidentale de l'Eurasie, pendant que la Chine doit chasser les États-Unis de l'Extrême-Orient. De cette façon, les États-Unis seraient remis à leur place et s'occuperaient plus à dépenser de l'argent pour combattre la pauvreté et construire des écoles pour ses enfants au lieu de détruire jusqu'aux **fondations** des pays appauvris tels que l'Iraq, l'Afghanistan et le Yémen. Russia needs to control Western Europe to deprive the US of its allies in western Eurasia, whereas China needs to kick the US out of the Far East. This way, the US will be put in its place and would spend more money on fighting poverty and building schools for its kids rather that destroying impoverished countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen to the ground. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11030071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11030071) [\#11746690](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11746690)) ## 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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