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Forms: material, materials. - Je préfère les **matériaux** simples. I prefer plain **materials**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2267088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2267088) [\#5600946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5600946)) - Les chambres inférieures étaient en effet pleines de **matériaux**. The lower chambers were, in fact, full of **materials**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7101) - Y a-t-il des **matériaux** défectueux? Are there faulty **materials**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1140106) - Gestion des composants de **matériaux** Management of **materials** components ([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 3061194) - 2.5 **Matériaux** des longerons (d): **Material** used for the side-members (d): ([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 9886921) ## construction Used about 649 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 223 · UN documents ≈ 427). Meaning: [construction in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/construction/). - Pelles, monte-**matériaux**, treuils de chantier, motobineuses Excavators, builders’ hoists for the transport of goods, **construction** winches, motor hoes ([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 617613) - Cependant, grâce à la construction d ' un local en **matériaux** préfabriqués, sur le site même du Ministère de la justice, les travaux devraient connaître une certaine accélération. However, following the **construction** of a prefabricated meeting site at the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, the group is expected to make faster progress in carrying its work forward. ([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 29388087) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Au lieu de la vieille pierre de taille, au lieu de l'ancienne architecture, hautaine et royale jusque dans l'égout, avec radier et assises courantes en granit et mortier de chaux grasse, laquelle coûtait huit cents livres la toise, il eût senti sous sa main le bon marché contemporain, l'expédient économique, la meulière à bain de mortier hydraulique sur couche de béton qui coûte deux cents francs le mètre, la maçonnerie bourgeoise dite à petits **matériaux**; mais il ne savait rien de tout cela. Instead of the ancient stone, instead of the antique architecture, haughty and royal even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as à petits matériaux—small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27644) - De cette manière, je dirais en fin de compte que la reconstruction ne dépend pas des **matériaux**, mais bien de la coopération. Actually, I could put it this way: reconstruction is not a matter of bricks and mortar, but co-operation. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2009771) - pales d’hélice ou turbopropulseurs en **matériaux** 愦灭;quot;composites愦灭;quot; capables d’absorber plus de 2000 kW à des vitesses de vol supérieures à Mach 0,55; 愦灭;quot;Composite愦灭;quot; propeller blades or propfans, capable of absorbing more than 2000 kW at flight speeds exceeding Mach 0,55; ([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 4744349) ## 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. 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