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By style: everyday 65 · literary 10 · biblical 40 · parliamentary 17 692 · legal and administrative 40 501 · UN documents 237 692. ## instruments Used about 227 939 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 55 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 14 044 · legal and administrative ≈ 35 542 · UN documents ≈ 178 269). Forms: instrument, instruments. - Je ne joue d'aucun **instrument**. I don't play any **instrument**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sicerabibax and jhomel · checked, community translation · [\#5070039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5070039) [\#4811800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4811800)) - Dieu a ses **instruments**. God has his **instruments**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30728) - Les Lévites prirent place avec les **instruments** de David, et les sacrificateurs avec les trompettes. The Levites stood with David’s **instruments**, and the priests with the trumpets. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 29:26) - La Charte de l'énergie est un **instrument** multilatéral. The Energy Charter is a multilateral **instrument**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 968580) - **INSTRUMENTS**, DONNÉES ET ÉQUIPEMENT **INSTRUMENTS**, DATA AND EQUIPMENT ([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 4669912) ## financial Used about 827 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 827). Meaning: [financial in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/financial/). - Détentions directes d’**instruments** de fonds propres additionnels de catégorie 1 d’entités du secteur financier dans lesquelles l’établissement possède un investissement important, à l’exclusion: Direct holdings of AT1 capital of **financial** sector entities where the institution has a significant investment, excluding: ([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 5166433) - Détentions directes d’**instruments** de fonds propres de base de catégorie 1 d’entités du secteur financier dans lesquelles l’établissement ne détient pas d’investissement important, à l’exclusion: Direct holdings of CET1 capital of **financial** sector entities where the institution does not have a significant investment, excluding: ([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 5166387) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - L’anglais est l’**instrument** de l’impérialisme américain. The English language is the vessel of American imperialism. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11951610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11951610) [\#11950764](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11950764)) - Une langue est beaucoup plus qu'un simple **instrument** de communication. A language is much more than just a communication tool. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Objectivesea · checked, community translation · [\#4895461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4895461) [\#7788068](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7788068)) - Le gouvernement est un **instrument** de la sagesse humaine destiné à pourvoir aux besoins humains. Les hommes disposent du droit à ce que ces besoins soient pourvus par cette sagesse. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1856700](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1856700) [\#1858102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1858102)) ## 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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