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Meaning: [lack in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/lack/). - Elle mourut par **manque** d'air. She died for **lack** of air. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#313882](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/313882) [\#862508](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/862508)) - Ce qui nous **manque** nous attire. That which we **lack** attracts us. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14181) - Qu’en tout temps tes vêtements soient blancs, et que l’huile ne **manque** point sur ta tête. Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head **lack** oil. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 9:8) - Clairement, il existe aussi un **manque** de liberté d'expression en Chine. Clearly, there is also a **lack** of freedom of expression in China. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1544369) - Année de demande 2012 — **Manque** de procédures de contrôle CY 2012 — **Lack** of control procedure ([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 3538044) ## gaps Used about 9 699 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 259 · legal and administrative ≈ 97 · UN documents ≈ 9 343). - Mais que de **manques**, que de lacunes, dans ce nouvel agenda social! But just look at the shortcomings, the **gaps** in this new social agenda! ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1120727) - Projet pilote — Vaccination maternelle: combler le **manque** de connaissance pour faire progresser la vaccination maternelle dans les milieux modestes Pilot project — Maternal immunisation: bridging knowledge **gaps** for advancing maternal immunisation in low-resource settings ([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 5051723) - Ces activités chercheront spécialement à remédier aux **manques** de capacités dans le Pacifique. These efforts will be tailored to address the capacity **gaps** in the Pacific. ([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 26499986) - J'espère que les **manques** seront comblés pour donner une véritable farce. I hope that these **gaps** can still be filled, so that we are talking about a real filling. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1872185) - Le prélèvement et l’analyse du pollen des ruches s’avèrent prometteurs pour recueillir des données et des informations précieuses susceptibles de combler ce **manque** de connaissances. Collection and analysis of pollen from beehives offers a promising avenue to gather invaluable data and information that can help to close those knowledge **gaps**. ([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 5051498) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il **manque** un point à la fin de la phrase. There's a full stop missing from the end of the sentence. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mela and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#3017161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3017161) [\#2851017](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2851017)) - Le Japon **manque** de matières premières. Japan is lacking in raw materials. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#281484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281484) [\#331058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/331058)) - Ce que nous avons ici, c'est un **manque** de communication. What we've got here is failure to communicate. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#10651022](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10651022) [\#10651019](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10651019)) ## 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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