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Meaning: [tool in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/tool/). - J'ai un **outil**. I have a **tool**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and cntrational · checked, community translation · [\#1120842](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1120842) [\#1121038](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1121038)) - --Ce sont des **outils** de taillandier, pensa Marius. “Those are the utensils of an edge-**tool** maker,” thought Marius. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17139) - Les fonds structurels sont un **outil** essentiel. The most important **tool** is structural funding. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1752880) - Version de l’**outil** prédictif Version of the predictive **tool** ([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 5114408) - **Outils** et matériel d’entretien **Tools** and equipment for maintenance ([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 5604400) ## used Used about 710 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 41 · UN documents ≈ 669). Meaning: [used in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/used/). - La TVA sert également d'**outil** de gestion politique pour déterminer quels biens et services sont prioritaires ou non. Value-added tax is also **used** as a policy instrument to control the supply and demand of goods/services, depending on the priorities adopted. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1627757) - On pourrait utiliser ces **outils** en particulier pour encourager la mise en oeuvre des instruments juridiques de la CEE. In particular, this could be **used** to encourage implementation of ECE ' s legal instruments. ([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 8009682) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Le langage est l'**outil** par lequel les gens communiquent avec les autres. Language is the means by which people communicate with others. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Barbiche0 and Snout · checked, community translation · [\#239788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239788) [\#332037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/332037)) - L'**outil** de reconnaissance des langues prend souvent le lojban pour du vietnamien. The Automated Language Recognition feature often mistakes Lojban for Vietnamese. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and caspian · checked, community translation · [\#1437942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1437942) [\#863701](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/863701)) - L'abaque est un **outil** à calculer. Abacuses are counting devices. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5978230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5978230) [\#5977550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5977550)) ## 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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