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By style: everyday 249 · literary 49 · parliamentary 25 588 · legal and administrative 77 823 · UN documents 1 852 083. ## general Used about 1 531 939 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 107 · literary ≈ 31 · parliamentary ≈ 17 858 · legal and administrative ≈ 62 826 · UN documents ≈ 1 451 117). Meaning: [general in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/general/). - Mayas est procureur **général**. Mayas is an attorney **general**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12815242](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12815242) [\#13558055](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13558055)) - Vive le **général** Lafayette! Long live **General** Lafayette!” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20792) - Il y a des points plus **généraux**. There are more **general** points. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1357122) - Règles **générales** sur le contrôle **General** rules on control ([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 3398150) - Note du Secrétaire **général** Note by the Secretary-**General** ([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 3939477) ## overall Used about 33 218 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 333 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 243 · UN documents ≈ 28 640). Meaning: [overall in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/overall/). - La tendance **générale** indique un déclin des espèces d’oiseaux. The **overall** trend shows a decline in bird species. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10492843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10492843) [\#10524140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10524140)) - Cela influencera l'avancement **général** des négociations. This will affect the **overall** progress of the negotiations. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1456964) - Le RSUE favorise la coordination politique **générale** de l’Union. The EUSR shall promote **overall** Union political coordination. ([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 2009214) - A. Organes chargés de questions **générales** de développement A. Organs dealing with **overall** development issues ([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 5804259) - Les statistiques **générales**, les moyennes, sont très mauvaises; elles sont vraiment alarmantes. The **overall** statistics - the averages - are very bad; they are really alarming. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1552024) ## assembly Used about 19 499 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 405 · UN documents ≈ 19 094). Meaning: [assembly in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/assembly/). - Le gouvernement slovène a nommé tous les membres de l'assemblée **générale** de KAD et de son conseil de surveillance (voir le considérant (11)). The Slovenian government appointed all the members of the **assembly** of KAD as well as the supervisory board (see recital (11)). ([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 3130803) - L ' Assemblée voudra peut-être préciser les lignes **générales** d ' action s ' agissant des activités à mener avant la session extraordinaire. The **Assembly** may wish to give more specific policy guidance on the work to be accomplished before the special session. ([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 1520358) - Le Conseil devrait donner des directives **générales** aux fonds et programmes pour qu ' ils se conforment aux politiques et aux priorités définies par l ' Assemblée. The Council should provide overall guidance to the funds and programmes in accordance with policies and priorities formulated by the **Assembly**. ([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 3259798) ## service Used about 811 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 811). Meaning: [service in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/service/). - des experts affectés à la PNC, notamment dans les postes clés, et affectés à l'encadrement de la police des frontières et de l'inspection **générale** d'audit; experts assigned to the PNC, particularly in key posts, and assigned to mentor the Border Police and Audit Police **Service**; ([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 1426878) - Ce service n'est pas facturé à l'appelé qui n'a, en **général**, aucune raison de réagir au tarif de terminaison fixé par son fournisseur de réseau. The called party is not billed for this **service** and generally has no incentive to respond to the termination price set by its network provider. ([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 1732136) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - En **général**, l’art du gouvernement consiste à prendre le plus d’argent qu’on peut à une grande partie des citoyens, pour le donner à une autre partie. Generally speaking, the art of governing consists in taking the most money from one part of the citizens, in order to give it to another part. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#406997](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/406997) [\#406996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/406996)) - Je prends mon petit-déjeuner ici en **général**. I usually have breakfast here. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11996765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11996765) [\#8418502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8418502)) - En **général** je vais me coucher à dix heures. I usually go to bed at ten. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by phil77 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#28934](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28934) [\#898773](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/898773)) ## 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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