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Meaning: [crossing in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/crossing/). - Le **passage** à niveau était cahoteux. The grade **crossing** was bumpy. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and mccarras · checked, community translation · [\#8978095](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8978095) [\#11575834](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11575834)) - Une formation appropriée, un entretien adéquat et une meilleure protection des **passages** à niveau sont d'autres éléments importants pour la sécurité. Appropriate training, sound maintenance and better protection of level **crossings** are other important components for safety. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1355769) - Points de **passage** frontaliers communs Shared border **crossing** points ([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 2961411) - 8.1.2 **Passages** pour piétons (ex 1 b)) Pedestrian **crossings** (formerly 1 (b)) ([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 15530845) - Le **passage** à niveau me rend nerveux. The railroad **crossing** makes me nervous. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and MsHollowfox · checked, community translation · [\#6876735](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6876735) [\#6876749](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6876749)) ## passage Used about 5 833 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 608 · legal and administrative ≈ 663 · UN documents ≈ 4 514). Forms: passage, passages. Meaning: [passage in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passage/). - C'est un rite de **passage**. It's a rite of **passage**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4282288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4282288) [\#12021473](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12021473)) - Vis-à-vis le **passage** de l'Ancre un tambour recevait un coup de poignard. Opposite the **passage** de l’Ancre a drummer received a blow from a dagger. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23127) - Ainsi Édom refusa de donner **passage** à Israël par son territoire. Et Israël se détourna de lui. Thus Edom refused to give Israel **passage** through his border, so Israel turned away from him. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 20:21) - Nous sommes donc favorables à la réintroduction des **passages** critiques. We therefore also support the re-insertion of the critical **passages**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1375316) - Nom complet du point de **passage** Full name of the **passage** point ([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 5015233) ## border Used about 573 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 58 · legal and administrative ≈ 102 · UN documents ≈ 410). Meaning: [border in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/border/). - La Turquie ferme tous les points de **passage** de sa frontière avec la Syrie. Turkey is closing all the check-points of its **border** with Syria. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aratos and petersmr · checked, community translation · [\#3383943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3383943) [\#3382509](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3382509)) - Sihon n’accorda point à Israël le **passage** sur son territoire; il rassembla tout son peuple, et sortit à la rencontre d’Israël, dans le désert; il vint à Jahats, et combattit Israël. Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his **border**, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 21:23) - Le motif de l’accusation était une cassette enregistrée par un journaliste de la télévision suédoise, à qui elle a été confisquée à son **passage** à la frontière. The reason for this was a cassette taped by a Swedish television journalist, which was confiscated from him at the **border**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 631054) - Valable pour des **passages** transfrontaliers multiples et autorisant la présentation des spécimens au public, conformément à l'article 8, paragraphe 3, du règlement (CE) no 338/97. Valid for multiple cross-**border** movements and allowing the specimens to be displayed to the public in accordance with Article 8(3) Regulation (EC) No 338/97. ([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 988249) - Pour ce qui est des zones d ' attente exceptionnelles, elles visent à faire face à un afflux d ' étrangers en dehors d ' un point de **passage** frontalier. The exceptional waiting zones were designed to cope with an influx of foreigners who did not pass through **border** checkpoints. ([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 27736181) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - On a découvert un **passage** secret. We discovered a secret passageway. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rockaround and marcelostockle · checked, community translation · [\#2082915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2082915) [\#8328421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8328421)) - Il y a un **passage** secret à gauche. There's a secret path on the left. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#2093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2093) [\#3901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3901)) - Dis à Tom et Marie que je les prendrais au **passage**. Tell Tom and Mary I'll pick them up on the way. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dolomitt and CT · checked, community translation · [\#6512179](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6512179) [\#8275472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8275472)) ## 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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