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Meaning: [sometimes in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sometimes/). - Ils font ça **parfois**. They do that **sometimes**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3735802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3735802) [\#6456047](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6456047)) - **Parfois**, insurrection, c'est résurrection. Insurrection is **sometimes** resurrection. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22900) - Le mieux est **parfois** l'ennemi du bien. Excesses are **sometimes** unhealthy. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1937959) - Le vocabulaire est **parfois** idiomatique. Vocabulary is **sometimes** idiomatic. ([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 2416923) - Il nous faut **parfois** réfléchir un peu. **Sometimes** we have to rethink a bit. ([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 16594123) ## times Used about 4 230 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 44 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 652 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 · UN documents ≈ 3 512). Meaning: [times in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/times/). - Je l'ai **parfois** fait. I've done that a couple of **times**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2359466](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2359466) [\#8624812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8624812)) - Le plus souverain symptôme de l'amour, c'est un attendrissement **parfois** presque insupportable. The most sovereign symptom of love is a tenderness that is, at **times**, almost unbearable. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21832) - Nos discussions ont **parfois** été très dynamiques, précisément en raison de la diversité des points de vue exprimés. Our discussions were quite dynamic at **times**, precisely because of the diversity of the views expressed. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1208822) - Toutefois, au lieu de facturer ces intérêts de manière systématique, les banques se sont **parfois** contentées d'exiger des intérêts aux taux exposés dans les tableaux 5 et 6. However, instead of charging this interest systematically, at **times** they merely charged interest at the rates shown in Table 5 and Table 6. ([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 2027097) - Les politiques d ' aménagement raisonnable peuvent soulever des questions et des problèmes complexes et **parfois** conduire à des impasses. 64. Policies of reasonable accommodation can lead to complicated questions, problems and, at **times**, impasses. ([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 28815636) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Jean Valjean attacha sur elle ce sourire navrant auquel il avait **parfois** recours. Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he occasionally had recourse: ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30898) - Puis, comme leurs deux visages se reflétaient, l'un contre l'autre, dans l'eau si claire dont les plantes noires du fond faisaient une glace limpide, Jean souriait à cette tête voisine qui le regardait d'en bas, et **parfois**, du bout des doigts, lui jetait un baiser qui semblait tomber dessus. And then, as their two faces were reflected side by side in water so clear that the black weeds at the bottom made a mirror, Jean smiled at the face which looked up at him from the depth, and now and then from his finger-tips blew it a kiss which seemed to light upon it. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1554) - Il pourra nous arriver, dans cette mise en scène d'un événement redoutable, de dire **parfois** l'émeute, mais seulement pour qualifier les faits de surface, et en maintenant toujours la distinction entre la forme émeute et le fond insurrection. It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, and always preserving the distinction between revolt, the form, and insurrection, the foundation. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22958) ## 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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