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Meaning: [rather in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/rather/). - C'est **plutôt** étrange. That's **rather** odd. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10816715](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10816715) [\#3654354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3654354)) - **Plutôt** que d'emprunter il ne mangeait pas. **Rather** than borrow, he went without food. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14823) - allez **plutôt** vers les brebis perdues de la maison d’Israël. **Rather**, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 10:6) - Mon rapport ne va pas à l’encontre de l’accord interinstitutionnel, mais cherche **plutôt** à le renforcer. My report is not aimed against the interinstitutional agreement, but **rather** it intends to strengthen it. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 568100) - Cela plaide **plutôt** dans le sens de l'existence d'une continuité économique. This **rather** points to the existence of economic continuity. ([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 4217412) ## instead Used about 6 634 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 80 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 195 · legal and administrative ≈ 802 · UN documents ≈ 3 554). Meaning: [instead in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/instead/). - Jouons **plutôt** aux cartes. Let's play cards **instead**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CK · checked, community translation · [\#45531](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/45531) [\#13880855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13880855)) - Mais les chefs des sacrificateurs excitèrent la foule, afin que Pilate leur relâchât **plutôt** Barabbas. But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them **instead**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 15:11) - Veillons **plutôt** à stimuler les investissements, facilitons les investissements. Let us **instead** make the incentive to invest, let us allow positive ways to investment to be made. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1101782) - Il a été proposé d’utiliser **plutôt** une marge bénéficiaire de 5 %. It was proposed to use a profit margin of 5 % **instead**. ([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 754687) - Il conviendrait d ' utiliser pleinement ces arrangements **plutôt** que d ' abuser de la tribune offerte par l ' Organisation des Nations Unies. Full use should be made of those arrangements, **instead** of misusing the forum of the United Nations. ([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 14883202) ## than Used about 977 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 73 · UN documents ≈ 889). Meaning: [than in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/than/). - **Plutôt** elle que moi. Better her **than** me. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1790800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1790800) [\#1791450](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1791450)) - On s'en souvient, elle était **plutôt** alouette que colombe. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark **than** a dove. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20063) - Le centenier écouta le pilote et le patron du navire **plutôt** que les paroles de Paul. But the centurion gave more heed to the master and to the owner of the ship **than** to those things which were spoken by Paul. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 27:11) - Un complément d'information est généralement demandé en vue de calmer les inquiétudes **plutôt** que de les accroître. Generally there is a requirement for more complete information to decrease **than** to increase the level of concern. ([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 1636897) - :: Fonder l ' accréditation sur des considérations techniques **plutôt** que politiques :: Focusing accreditation more on technical **than** on political considerations ([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 11336216) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Je le trouve **plutôt** marrant. I find him pretty funny. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11671607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11671607) [\#3006451](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3006451)) - En fait, je suis **plutôt** occupé. Actually, I'm kind of busy. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3396673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3396673) [\#6219240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6219240)) - C'est **plutôt** ennuyant. That's pretty annoying. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1929639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1929639) [\#6545624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6545624)) ## 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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