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Meaning: [but in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/but/). - Le bois flotte, **mais** le fer coule. Wood floats, **but** iron sinks. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#323632](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/323632) [\#1342459](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1342459)) - **Mais** c'était une manie. **But** it was a mania of his. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7508) - **Mais** leurs yeux étaient empêchés de le reconnaître. **But** their eyes were kept from recognizing him. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 24:16) - **Mais** il ne suffit pas seulement d'agir de la sorte. **But** that alone is not enough. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1971065) - 80 % ou plus, **mais** moins de 90 %: 80 % or more, **but** less than 90 %: ([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 519678) ## not Used about 21 739 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 199 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 50 · parliamentary ≈ 20 404 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 070). Meaning: [not in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/not/). - Spider-Man est cool. **Mais** les araignées... non, pas du tout. Spider-Man is cool. Spiders are **NOT**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · [\#397821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/397821) [\#397820](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/397820)) - --Rue Plumet! tu dis rue plumet?--Voyons donc!--N'y a-t-il pas une caserne par là?--**Mais** oui, c'est ça. “The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?—Let us see!—Are there **not** barracks in that vicinity?—Why, yes, that’s it. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22572) - que les femmes se taisent dans les assemblées, car il ne leur est pas permis d’y parler; **mais** qu’elles soient soumises, selon que le dit aussi la loi. Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has **not** been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:34) - Je ne suis pas partisane de la publicité, **mais** je suis pour l’information. I am **not** in favour of advertising; I am, however, in favour of information. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 536938) - fumés, même cuits avant ou pendant le fumage **mais** non autrement préparés Smoked, whether or **not** cooked before or during the smoking process, not otherwise prepared ([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 179079) ## also Used about 13 523 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 50 · parliamentary ≈ 3 401 · UN documents ≈ 10 072). Meaning: [also in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/also/). - **Mais** pardonne mon péché pour cette fois seulement; et priez l’Éternel, votre Dieu, afin qu’il éloigne de moi encore cette plaie mortelle. Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the LORD your God, that he may **also** take away from me this death.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 10:17) - **Mais** je veux dire aussi que nous avons encore beaucoup à faire pour favoriser la démocratisation de l'OMC. I **also** believe, though, that there is still more that we can do to make the WTO more democratic. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 271201) - Il importait en outre que tout fluide réfrigérant de substitution présente de meilleures qualités de réfrigération et de chauffage que le R404A **mais** aussi une meilleure efficacité énergétique. It was **also** important that any replacement refrigerants matched or improved on current refrigeration and heating capacities as well as on energy efficiency. ([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 29778286) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Mais** où es-tu donc allé la nuit dernière ? Where on earth did you go last night? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and CM · checked, community translation · [\#244817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244817) [\#8556789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8556789)) - Nous vivons tous sous le même soleil, **mais** nous n'avons pas le même horizon. We all live under the same sun, yet we don't share the same horizon. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and verymuchso · checked, community translation · [\#7079772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7079772) [\#7078347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7078347)) - **Mais** je me souviendrai de mon alliance avec toi au temps de ta jeunesse, et j’établirai avec toi une alliance éternelle. Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 16:60) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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