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Forms: mother, mothers. Meaning: [mother in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mother/). - Ma **mère** va bien. My **mother** is fine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9161445](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9161445) [\#9165769](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9165769)) - --Oui, dit la **mère**. “Yes,” said the **mother**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17028) - Nous sommes orphelins, sans père; Nos **mères** sont comme des veuves. We are orphans and fatherless. Our **mothers** are as widows. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 5:3) - Une **mère** reste une **mère** ! **Mother** will always be mother. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 209257) - Âge de la **mère** Age of the **mother** ([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 3261103) ## child Used about 3 349 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · UN documents ≈ 3 322). Forms: child, children. Meaning: [child in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/child/). - Comment consoler une **mère** qui vient de perdre son seul enfant ? How do you console a woman who has just lost her only **child**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#676326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/676326) [\#809021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809021)) - b) s ' il a abandonné sa femme et si l ' enfant est à la charge de la **mère**; If he has deserted his wife and the **child** is in her charge; ([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 11841103) - Le taux d ' activité des **mères**, quel que soit leur degré d ' instruction, a fortement augmenté. Biggest increases in labour force participation among women with **children** at all education levels ([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 29676817) - 804. Peu de temps après l ' indépendance, la protection sanitaire de la **mère** et de l ' enfant a été élevée au rang de politique d ' État. 804. Shortly after independence, maternal and **child** health protection was elevated to State policy rank. ([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 26244049) - M. Francisco Songane, ancien Ministre de la santé du Mozambique, ancien Directeur du Partenariat pour la santé de la **mère**, du nouveau-né et de l ' enfant Mr. Francisco Songane, former Minister of Health, Mozambique, former Director of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and **Child** Health ([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 20733971) ## parent Used about 2 343 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 57 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 812 · UN documents ≈ 475). Meaning: [parent in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parent/). - Ils limiteront les mesures aux groupes disposant d'une relation entre société **mère** et filiales. They will limit the measures to groups with a **parent**/subsidiary relationship only. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 304052) - Beau-parent (partenaire du père ou de la **mère** — élevé) Step-**parent** (high level) ([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 4588840) - 36. Ainsi, on peut dire que la KNPC était simplement chargée de la transformation d ' hydrocarbures pour le compte de la KPC, société **mère**. Thus, KNPC can be best described as being merely a processor of hydrocarbons for its **parent** company, KPC. ([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 9656255) - C'est une nouvelle initiative qui fait suite à d'autres actions menées dans le passé et qui est soutenue par une action **mère** datant de 1996. This is a new initiative following on from other actions taken in the past and based on a **parent** action in 1996. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 349816) - Attribuable aux propriétaires de la société **mère** Attributable to owners of the **parent** ([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 4377958) ## father Used about 14 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 14). Meaning: [father in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/father/). - Je parle d'expérience, parce que mon père a souffert d'Alzheimer, tout comme ma grand-**mère** et j'espère rompre cette lignée génétique. I speak from experience, because my **father** suffered from Alzheimer's, as did my grandmother, and I hope to end the genetic line. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1475585) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Je n'arrive pas à croire que votre **mère** vous aie laissées vous en aller. I can't believe your mom let you go. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1950932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1950932) [\#1984238](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1984238)) - Sa grand-**mère** a l'air en bonne santé. His grandmother looks healthy. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#285280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/285280) [\#1273226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1273226)) - Ma grand-**mère** a posté la lettre ce matin. My grandmother posted the letter this morning. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#62592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/62592) [\#335453](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/335453)) ## 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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