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Forms: position, positions. Meaning: [position in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/position/). - Tom est en **position**. Tom is in **position**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2273236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2273236) [\#8730431](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8730431)) - Sa **position** devenait visiblement critique. His **position** was visibly becoming critical. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27766) - Aucune **position** extrême ne sera adoptée. No extreme **position** will be adopted. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1096056) - **POSITIONS** SOUMISES AUX EXIGENCES DE FONDS PROPRES **POSITIONS** SUBJECT TO CAPITAL CHARGE ([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 5165561) - Une **position** de fermeture complète; et - a fully latched **position**; and ([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 19189977) ## parliament Used about 859 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 859). Meaning: [parliament in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parliament/). - Elle constitue un rappel utile des **positions** de principe du Parlement européen sur le conflit israélo-palestinien. It is a useful reminder of the statement of the principles of the European **Parliament** on the Israel-Palestine conflict. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2015494) - Il semble pour l'instant exclu de menacer, montrer la force du Parlement ou avancer l'entièreté de nos **positions**. It seems pointless at this juncture to make threats, to proclaim **Parliament**' s power or to put forward all of our views at once. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 70476) - Monsieur le Président, notre dernière prise de **position** sur l'Irak est antérieure à la guerre. Le Parlement y exprimait son total soutien aux inspecteurs des Nations unies. Mr President, the last time we took a stance on Iraq was before the war, when **Parliament** expressed its full support for the United Nations inspectors. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 454572) ## common Used about 286 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 286). Meaning: [common in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/common/). - La présidence danoise a-t-elle adopté une **position** commune à ce propos ? Is the Danish Presidency in favour of a **common** policy on this issue? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 356933) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Le président a adopté une **position** ferme. The President took a hard line. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#275894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/275894) [\#12038669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12038669)) - Quelle est votre **position** sur la peine de mort ? What's your stand on the death penalty? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#8346720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8346720) [\#10512345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10512345)) - Un appareil GPS peut localiser votre **position** n'importe où dans le monde. A GPS device can pinpoint your location anywhere in the world. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#1412062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1412062) [\#11045536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11045536)) ## 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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