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Meaning: [french in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/french/). - Mets ça en **français**. Put this in **French**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CM · checked, community translation · [\#8216066](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8216066) [\#8737402](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8737402)) - --Vous autres **Français**, vous ne tenez pas vos promesses. “You **French**—you never keep your word!” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2359) - Je m'en remets au modèle **français** comme le plus paradigmatique. I refer to the **French** model as the most exemplary. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1649043) - en **français** Règlement (CE) no 1218/2005 In **French** Règlement (CE) no 1218/2005 ([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 706062) - Anglais et **français** seulement English and **French** only ([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 24697687) ## english Used about 1 050 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 050). Meaning: [english in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/english/). - No ONU 0331 (Sans objet en **français**.) UN 0331 Add " (AGENT, BLASTING, TYPE B) " in column (2). (**English** text only) ([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 6658208) ## only Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1). Meaning: [only in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/only/). - La benoîte vierge Marie, qui est au coin de la rue Mauconseil, n'a peut-être fait mourir Eustache Moubon que pour cela; et c'est folie à vous de vous enfuir ainsi sur traîne-boyau, comme un Picard devant un **Français**, laissant derrière vous ce que vous cherchez devant; et vous êtes un sot!» The blessed Virgin Marie who stands at the corner of the Rue Mauconseil, could **only** have made Eustache Moubon die for that express purpose; and it is folly on your part to flee thus zigzag, like a Picard before a Frenchman, leaving behind you what you seek before you; and you are a fool!” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1134) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - --Cinquante-cinq mille! reprit Fix, en serrant la main du **Français**. “Fifty-five thousand!” answered Fix, pressing his companion’s hand. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1442) - Vous êtes un **Français**, vous? You are a Frenchman, aren’t you?” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1898) - --Ma foi, répondit Passepartout, vexé de voir sa nationalité provoquer cette demande, nous autres **Français**, nous savons faire des grimaces, c'est vrai, mais pas mieux que les Américains! “Why,” replied Passepartout, a little vexed that his nationality should cause this question, “we Frenchmen know how to make grimaces, it is true but not any better than the Americans do.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1901) ## 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. 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