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Forms: form, forms. - La communication prend de nombreuses **formes**. Communication takes many **forms**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Archibald and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#28208](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28208) [\#13927](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13927)) - Toute cette vie active, organisée, tranquille, reproduite autour de lui sous mille **formes**, lui fit mal. All this active, organized, tranquil life, recurring around him under a thousand **forms**, hurt him. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5848) - L'Europe n'a pas besoin de moins de **formes** de travail, mais bien de plus. Europe needs more **forms** of employment, not fewer. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 391800) - Silicones sous **formes** primaires Silicones in primary **forms** ([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 4061853) - de toutes les **formes** of all **Forms** of ([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 15195018) ## discrimination Used about 9 469 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 262 · UN documents ≈ 9 207). Meaning: [discrimination in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/discrimination/). - J'insiste vigoureusement sur la nécessité de lutter contre toutes les **formes** de discrimination. I firmly insist that we must combat every form of **discrimination**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1244709) - Application de l ' article 21 de la Convention sur l ' élimina-tion de toutes les **formes** de discrimination à l ' égard des femmes \[5\] Application de l ' article 21 de la Convention sur l ' élimina-tion de toutes les formes de **discrimination** à l ' égard des femmes \[5\] ([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 3070166) - Il est essentiel de prendre des mesures visant à encourager l'esprit d'entreprise chez les femmes et à lutter contre toutes les **formes** de discrimination basée sur le sexe. It is essential to take measures to support entrepreneurialism among women and to combat all manifestations of gender-based **discrimination**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1531304) - 107. Un grand nombre d ' études et de publications mettent en évidence la nécessité d ' examiner de manière plus approfondie les diverses **formes** de discrimination multiple. Numerous studies and publications establish that the diversity in manifestations of multiple **discrimination** seems to demand a further elaboration. ([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 16777967) - Nous devons également continuer à préparer le terrain pour une législation contre toutes les **formes** de discrimination, y compris une directive concernant les personnes handicapées. We must also prepare further for anti-**discrimination** legislation on all grounds in the future, including a disability directive. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 98547) ## convention Used about 3 069 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 069). Meaning: [convention in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/convention/). - Convention sur l ' élimination de toutes les **formes** **Convention** sur l ' élimination de toutes les formes ([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 9474885) ## all Used about 261 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 257). Meaning: [all in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/all/). - L'amour vient de toutes **formes** et tailles. Love comes in **all** shapes and sizes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dimitris and dimitris · checked, community translation · [\#1650369](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650369) [\#1650373](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650373)) - Ce gentleman semblait devoir échouer dans sa dernière tentative, quand il aperçut, mouillé devant la Batterie, à une encablure au plus, un navire de commerce à hélice, de **formes** fines, dont la cheminée, laissant échapper de gros flocons de fumée, indiquait qu'il se préparait à appareiller. He seemed about to give up **all** hope, when he espied, anchored at the Battery, a cable’s length off at most, a trading vessel, with a screw, well-shaped, whose funnel, puffing a cloud of smoke, indicated that she was getting ready for departure. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2815) - encéphalomyélite équine (sous toutes ses **formes**, y compris la VEE), Equine encephalomyelitis (of **all** types, including VEE) ([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 1779916) - L'allée était remplie d'une énorme variété de brassières, de toutes **formes**, tailles et designs. The aisle was packed with an enormous variety of brassieres, in **all** shapes, sizes, and designs. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Anxxos and Auride · checked, community translation · [\#10627930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10627930) [\#11730893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11730893)) - La personne qu'il voyait maintenant était une grande et belle créature ayant toutes les **formes** les plus charmantes de la femme à ce moment précis où elles se combinent encore avec toutes les grâces les plus naïves de l'enfant; moment fugitif et pur que peuvent seuls traduire ces deux mots: quinze ans. The person whom he now beheld was a tall and beautiful creature, possessed of **all** the most charming lines of a woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which can be expressed only by these two words,—“fifteen years.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15231) ## against Used about 175 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 175). - Nous avons poursuivi le même objectif et enregistré des progrès notables dans la lutte contre les **formes** graves de criminalité transfrontalière. We have acted in concert and made good progress in the fight **against** serious cross-border crime. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 193787) - La délégation des Modérés a voté ce jour pour le rapport sur le soutien à la lutte contre les **formes** nuisibles de travail des enfants. The Moderate delegation has today voted in favour of a report in support of the fight **against** harmful child labour. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 699653) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les dessins de Marie montrent souvent des **formes** fondues dans un épais brouillard. Mary's pictures often show figures shrouded in a heavy mist. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sorgan and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#6201722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6201722) [\#6203298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6203298)) - Les groupes de pierres connectées peuvent avoir différentes **formes** et tailles. Ce sont les « pièces » utilisées par les joueurs dans la pratique du Go. Groups of connected stones can have different shapes and sizes. They are the "pieces" used by players in the practice of Go. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10384850](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10384850) [\#10385082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10385082)) - Tu n'as pas de **formes**. Tu es grosse. You're not curvy. You're fat. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2214301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2214301) [\#2215145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2215145)) ## 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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