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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5656503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5656503) [\#5657207](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5657207)) - **Lignes** directrices pour les politique de l'emploi (vote) Employment policy **guidelines** (vote) ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1225307) - **Lignes** directrices relatives aux inventaires des gaz à effet de serre Greenhouse Gas Inventory **Guidelines** ([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 3339453) - Nécessitent des **lignes** directrices claires pour être complètes. Requires good **guidelines** to be complete. ([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 15020852) - C'est le but des **lignes** directrices intégrées proposées par la Commission. This is the purpose of the integrated **guidelines** proposed by the Commission. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1393145) ## lines Used about 19 049 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 71 · literary ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 922 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 837 · UN documents ≈ 12 198). - Lis entre les **lignes**. Read between the **lines**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#322227](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/322227) [\#7046903](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7046903)) - Elle contenait ces quelques **lignes**: It contained the following **lines**:— ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15888) - J'ai voté contre les **lignes** budgétaires B7-6312 et contre les amendements 605 et 361. I voted against budget **lines** B7-6312, Arndt 605 and Arndt 361. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 382055) - **Lignes** à main et **lignes** avec canne (mécanisées) \[3\] Hand-**lines** and pole-lines (mechanized) \[3\] ([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 927304) - Les citoyens des deux pays utilisent à présent ces **lignes**. Citizens of both countries now use those **lines** for contacts by telephone. ([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 791958) ## aid Used about 531 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 531). Meaning: [aid in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/aid/). - Les mesures d'aide au financement des risques sous la forme d'instruments financiers doivent être mises en œuvre par des intermédiaires financiers (point 20 des **lignes** directrices). Risk finance **aid** measures in the form of financial instruments have to be deployed through financial intermediaries (paragraph 20 RFG). ([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 3732423) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - L'échiquier comporte 64 cases, alternativement claires et sombres, réparties sur 8 **lignes** et 8 colonnes. The chessboard has 64 squares, alternately light and dark, distributed over 8 rows and 8 columns. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10275614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10275614) [\#10275619](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10275619)) - La matrice était composée de cinq **lignes** et de sept colonnes. The matrix consisted of five rows and seven columns. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and swolesuki · checked, community translation · [\#6909150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6909150) [\#11377211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11377211)) - Puis-je avoir un plan des **lignes** de bus ? May I have a bus route map? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CK · checked, community translation · [\#35333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35333) [\#139758](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/139758)) ## 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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