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Forms: small, smaller. Meaning: [small in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/small/). - La mouche est **petite**. The fly is **small**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#10119228](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10119228) [\#3487742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3487742)) - Il y a une chapelle couronnée d'une **petite** voûte pleine d'enrichissements bien coupés. There is a chapel crowned with a **small** vault full of very well carved enrichments. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8162) - Il vit aussi une pauvre veuve, qui y mettait deux **petites** pièces. He saw a certain poor widow casting in two **small** brass coins. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 21:2) - Ce n'est pas une **petite** décision. This is not a **small** decision. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1117123) - Redevance réduite pour **petite** entreprise Reduced fee for **small** enterprise ([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 1515873) ## scale Used about 1 126 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 126). Meaning: [scale in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/scale/). - La plus **petite** échelle à laquelle l ' affichage d ' un objet est autorisé dans une représentation ECDIS. The minimum **scale** at which the feature may be used e.g. for ECDIS presentation. SENC ([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 26336713) - Ceux-ci avaient traité aussi bien de la **petite** corruption au niveau local que de la corruption à grande échelle au niveau transnational. The panel discussion had addressed corruption from petty corruption at the grassroots level to corruption on a grand **scale** at the transnational level. ([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 27420968) ## sized Used about 92 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 92). - Supplément en faveur des **petites** et moyennes entreprises \[12\](ESB) Supplement for medium-**sized** enterprises \[12\](GGE) ([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 5627139) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Jim est fou de sa **petite** amie. Jim is crazy about his girlfriend. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lulantis and CN · checked, community translation · [\#53236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/53236) [\#11729](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11729)) - Il demanda à sa **petite** copine d'emprunter le parapluie de sa mère. He asked his girlfriend to borrow her mother's umbrella. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Popolon and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#2811613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2811613) [\#2934105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2934105)) - Ce chien a sauvé la vie de la **petite** fille. This dog saved the girl's life. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and robbieheslop · checked, community translation · [\#6321947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6321947) [\#11054438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11054438)) ## 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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