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Meaning: [island in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/island/). - C. **Petits** États insulaires en développement Small **island** developing states ([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 12692245) - sur les **petits** États insulaires en développement Small **Island** Developing States ([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 29132140) - durable des **petits** États insulaires en développement the Sustainable Development of Small **Island** Developing States ([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 3346955) - Déclaration du CAC sur les **petits** États insulaires en développement ACC statement on small **island** developing States ([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 5966260) - Réunion officieuse sur les **petits** États insulaires en développement du Pacifique Informal meeting on Pacific **island** developing countries ([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 13114060) ## small Used about 25 631 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 43 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 3 574 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 117 · UN documents ≈ 18 870). Forms: small, smaller. Meaning: [small in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/small/). - Les **petits** ruisseaux font les grandes rivières. Many **small** streams make a great river. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LowMemory and Objectivesea · checked, community translation · [\#8047449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8047449) [\#14660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14660)) - Cela s'arrangeait comme un complot, on sortait avant le jour, et c'était autant de **petits** bonheurs pour Cosette. It was arranged like a plot, they set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many **small** delights for Cosette. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19623) - Il bénira ceux qui craignent l’Éternel, Les **petits** et les grands; He will bless those who fear the LORD, both **small** and great. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 115:13) - Et pourquoi sommes-nous **petits**? And why are we **small**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 583692) - Baies et **petits** fruits Berries and **small** fruits ([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 4308146) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les **petits**-enfants prouvent qu'il n'est pas inutile d'avoir des enfants. Grandchildren are proof that some good comes from having children. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#6196032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6196032) [\#2061647](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2061647)) - Mon amoureux est toujours aux **petits** soins avec moi. My boyfriend is always pampering me. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LoverofEnglish and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#13885696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13885696) [\#12541665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12541665)) - Bratislav a regardé au-delà des petites politiques et des **petits** peuples de cette minuscule planète. Bratislav looked beyond the little polities and little peoples of this tiny planet. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and nonong · checked, community translation · [\#10830162](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10830162) [\#10833004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10833004)) ## 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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