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Forms: light, lights. Meaning: [light in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/light/). - La **lumière** s'est allumée. The **light** went on. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · [\#279870](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/279870) [\#623440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/623440)) - La **lumière** avait disparu. The **light** had disappeared. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4631) - Dieu dit: Que la **lumière** soit! Et la **lumière** fut. God said, “Let there be **light**,” and there was light. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 1:3) - L’un a ouvert les **lumières** et l’autre a souffert dans l’ombre. One of them opened up the **light** and the other suffered in the shadows. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 755188) - Intensité de la **lumière** émise Intensity of **light** emitted ([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 5456242) ## enlightenment Used about 3 768 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 977 · UN documents ≈ 2 791). Meaning: [enlightenment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/enlightenment/). - Il en va de même pour l'humanisme et pour les **Lumières**. The same is true of humanism and **enlightenment**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1165891) - Œuvrons à une nouvelle période des **Lumières**, celle de l ' unité de l ' Organisation des Nations Unies. Let us work towards a new **enlightenment**, the unity of the United Nations. ([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 13146433) - L'Europe des **lumières**, des valeurs, de la dignité, manque de cohérence politique. The Europe of **Enlightenment**, of values, of dignity, lacks policy coherence. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1073569) - Il est pourtant la traduction de l ' idéal des **Lumières** et il convient de le faire progresser, car les échéances pressent. However, it was the reflection of an **Enlightenment** ideal and should be fostered because time was running out. ([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 8135705) - Je veux parler de principes et de valeurs qui sont ceux du "siècle des **lumières**", comme l'affirmation du primat de la raison. I am talking about principles and values which come from the **Enlightenment** and which affirm the supremacy of reason. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 21141) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - La canopée bloque la **lumière** du soleil. The canopy blocks the sunlight. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Teangloir · checked, community translation · [\#12851865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12851865) [\#13024536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13024536)) - Les plantes croissent en direction de la **lumière**. Plants grow towards sunlight. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2488942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2488942) [\#3645829](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3645829)) - Les panneaux solaires prennent la **lumière** du Soleil et de la Lune et la transforment en électricité ou en chaleur. Solar panels take sun and moonlight and transform them into electricity or heat. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#13815996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13815996) [\#1257865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1257865)) ## 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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