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Meaning: [majority in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/majority/). - Ils avaient la **majorité** au Parlement. They had the **majority** in Parliament. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by xhlulu and Joseph · checked, community translation · [\#2629419](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2629419) [\#10710989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10710989)) - Il n’y a pas de **majorités** ici. There are no **majorities** here. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 547559) - Pouvoirs et **majorités** de l'assemblée générale Powers and voting **majorities** of the General Assembly ([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 3140407) - A. **Majorités** civile et civique A. Age of **majority** and age of franchise ([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 7132900) - La **majorité** des policiers sont des hommes. The **majority** of police officers are men. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11179849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11179849) [\#11179895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11179895)) ## most Used about 2 630 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 686 · UN documents ≈ 1 935). Meaning: [most in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/most/). - La **majorité** des Américains aiment les hamburgers. **Most** Americans like hamburgers. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BigMouse and CK · checked, community translation · [\#41207](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/41207) [\#1593352](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1593352)) - Le projet que nous avons sous les yeux est soutenu par la **majorité** de cette Assemblée. The draft now before us is supported by **most** of the House. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 508804) - 18. En 1997, les taux d ' inflation dans la plupart des pays du CCG étaient plus bas que dans la **majorité** des autres pays en développement ou développés du monde. 18. In 1997, inflation rates were lower in **most** GCC countries than in most of the other developing as well as developed countries in the world. ([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 5028442) - L'eau recouvre la **majorité** de la surface de la Terre. Water makes up **most** of the earth's surface. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zarisi and CK · checked, community translation · [\#270826](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/270826) [\#8357511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8357511)) - La grande **majorité** des citoyens ne se soucie pas beaucoup de la manière dont ces principes seront mis sur pied. The way that is achieved is of little interest to **most** people. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1977725) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Ma fille atteindra sa **majorité** cette année. My daughter will come of age this year. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#322881](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/322881) [\#11913457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11913457)) - Quand est-ce que ta fille a atteint sa **majorité** ? When did your daughter come of age? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and CM · checked, community translation · [\#70372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/70372) [\#672972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/672972)) - Quand elle atteindra sa **majorité**, ils vont se marier. When she comes of age, they are going to get married. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Luornu · checked, community translation · [\#308384](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/308384) [\#877006](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/877006)) ## 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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