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Meaning: [period in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/period/). - Quelle **période** de l'histoire étudies-tu ? Which **period** of history are you studying? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#68851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/68851) [\#1526727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1526727)) - Tout à coup, au beau milieu d'une **période**, il s'interrompit, et son regard, d'ordinaire assez doux et même assez bête, devint foudroyant. All at once, in the middle of a fine **period**, he interrupted himself, and his glance, ordinarily so gentle and even stupid, became menacing. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5105) - Cela crée de l'espace pour la **période** à venir. It creates breathing space for the coming **period**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1097949) - **Périodes** de démarrage et d'arrêt Start-up and shut-down **period** ([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 4191700) - Résultats obtenus durant la **période** à l ' examen Achievements during the reporting **period** ([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 15983055) ## during Used about 18 228 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 527 · UN documents ≈ 16 700). Meaning: [during in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/during/). - Le vote aura lieu durant la prochaine **période** de session. The vote will take place **during** the next part-session. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1240568) - La durée totale des diverses **périodes** d ' isolement ne peut dépasser six mois par année civile. The overall stay in solitary confinement **during** a calendar year may not be longer than six months. ([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 29353173) - Le Parlement aura, au cours des prochaines **périodes** de session, à se prononcer sur plusieurs rapports dans ce domaine. **During** the next few months of the session, Parliament will have a number of reports on which to adopt positions in this area. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 151915) - La famine peut allumer la guerre civile, comme cela s ' est vu durant les **périodes** de sécheresse qui ont frappé l ' Afrique orientale dans les années 70, 80 et 90. Famine can provoke civil war, as demonstrated **during** the drought in the Horn of Africa in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. ([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 12969849) - Ainsi, la navigation intérieure n'est pas la seule utilisatrice des eaux fluviales, un fait qui ressort avec clarté en ces **périodes** de forte sécheresse. Thus, inland shipping is not the only user of river water, something that is abundantly clear **during** these days of extreme drought. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1567127) ## years Used about 5 789 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 153 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 290 · UN documents ≈ 3 340). - 10 ans est une longue **période** à attendre. Ten **years** is a long time to wait. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kurisutofu and blay\_paul · checked, community translation · [\#1542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1542) [\#3358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3358)) - La Commission veillera simplement à faire rapport sur les incidences de la directive après une **période** de cinq années. The Commission is simply required to report on the impact of the directive after 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 128890) - L'activité du Comité s'exerce par **périodes** quinquennales. The Committee shall hold office for terms of five **years**. ([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 4876599) - Pour les trois **périodes** de référence, le taux de chômage était plus d ' une fois et demie plus élevé chez les jeunes que dans la population totale. For all three **years** the youth unemployment rate was more than 1½ times the rate for the total population. ([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 5017664) - À cette **période** il avait seulement douze ans. He was only twelve **years** old at the time. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and feudalism · checked, community translation · [\#7593063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7593063) [\#7664190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7664190)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Noël est une **période** joyeuse. Christmas is a happy time. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#9261880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9261880) [\#9489667](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9489667)) - Je suis généralement occupé à cette **période**. I'm usually busy around this time. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#10510706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10510706) [\#11725998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11725998)) - La puberté est la **période** où les garçons et les filles ne savent pas s'ils doivent se frapper ou s'embrasser. Puberty is the time when boys and girls don't know whether to hit or kiss each other. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#7972138](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7972138) [\#10781320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10781320)) ## 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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