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Meaning: [minimum in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/minimum/). - C'est le strict **minimum**. That's the bare **minimum**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1414970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1414970) [\#9046916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9046916)) - --Un **minimum** bien employé suffit à tout. “A well-used **minimum** suffices for everything.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 162) - Ce prix **minimum** restera applicable pendant cinq ans. This **minimum** price will operate for five years. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1734019) - TAUX D’INTÉRÊT FIXES **MINIMUMS** **MINIMUM** FIXED INTEREST RATES ([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 2973750) - c) Quatre sièges au **minimum** pour les observateurs. (c) A **minimum** of four seats for observers. ([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 22899108) ## least Used about 4 915 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 187 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 691 · UN documents ≈ 3 035). Meaning: [least in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/least/). - On devrait dormir au **minimum** sept heures par nuit. We must sleep at **least** seven hours a day. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Romira and CM · checked, community translation · [\#247807](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/247807) [\#180973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/180973)) - --Mais, monsieur Fogg, ce laps de quatre-vingts jours n'est calculé que comme un **minimum** de temps! “But, Mr. Fogg, eighty days are only the estimate of the **least** possible time in which the journey can be made.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 161) - Je crois que c'est là le **minimum** que nous devons à l'Assemblée. I believe this is the **least** we owe to 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 227719) - Cette documentation comprend au **minimum**: That documentation shall contain at **least**: ([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 3897000) - Les examens devraient avoir lieu au **minimum** tous les cinq ans. Reviews should be completed at **least** every five years. ([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 27295216) ## age Used about 607 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 607). Meaning: [age in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/age/). - La législation relative aux autres âges **minimums** doit être abolie. Legislation relating to other **age** limits should be abolished. ([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 17078612) ## wages Used about 31 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 31). Forms: wage, wages. - Quarante % de la croissance de l'emploi des femmes est représentée par le travail à temps partiel et indépendant, avec des salaires **minimums**. Forty per cent of the growth in women' s employment is due to part-time and independent work, which receives minimal **wages**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 198152) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Le danger est **minimum**. The danger is minimal. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3226490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3226490) [\#3226498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3226498)) - Les incidences des emballages sur l’environnement doivent être réduites au **minimum**. The environmental impact of packaging must be minimised. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 553481) - Toutefois, avant d'en arriver là, il faut au **minimum** améliorer les conditions de transport des animaux. Until that time, however, conditions for the animals during movement must be improved. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1767049) ## 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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