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By style: everyday 54 · literary 6 · parliamentary 8 835 · legal and administrative 28 482 · UN documents 123 960. ## specific Used about 47 768 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 639 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 488 · UN documents ≈ 31 636). Forms: specific, specified, specify. Meaning: [specific in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/specific/). - Je veux des informations **précises**. I want **specific** information. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and J\_S · checked, community translation · [\#18363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18363) [\#9710312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9710312)) - Elle doit être **précisée**. This should be **specified**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 906436) - Autre **précisez** ci-dessous Other please **specify** below ([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 4357037) - Si oui, **précisez** lesquels. Handbook? Please be **specific**. ([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 12652597) - Elle n'a pas **précisé** pourquoi elle était en retard. She didn't **specify** why she was late. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#10351265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10351265) [\#11766467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11766467)) ## clear Used about 6 199 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 075 · legal and administrative ≈ 604 · UN documents ≈ 4 519). Meaning: [clear in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/clear/). - **Précisons** ce qui est vrai et ce qui est faux. Let's make **clear** which is right and which is wrong. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by 9h0ost and CM · checked, community translation · [\#282599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/282599) [\#126518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/126518)) - **Précisons** bien que l'UE n'a pas de compétences en la matière. It must be made **clear** that the EU has no authority in this area. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1313697) - Il convient de prévoir des instructions écrites **précises** concernant leur alimentation et leur abreuvement. There shall be **clear** written instructions about feeding and watering. ([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 629130) - Diffusion d ' informations claires et **précises**. Dissemination of **clear** and accurate information. ([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 13039926) - Ceux-ci disposent d'instructions claires qui **précisent** comment appliquer ces règles. They have **clear** instructions stipulating how these should be applied. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1008109) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Inutile de **préciser** qu'il a raison. Needless to say, he is right. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by SUZIE and CK · checked, community translation · [\#239704](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239704) [\#521829](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/521829)) - Inutile de le **préciser**, il est en retard à l'école comme d'habitude. Needless to say, he was late for school as usual. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ppjet6 and CM · checked, community translation · [\#239685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239685) [\#779302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/779302)) - Au cas où ça n'est pas gratuit, veuillez me **préciser** combien coûtent le catalogue et le port pour le Japon. If they are not free, please let me know how much the catalogue and the postage to Japan are. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#30944](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/30944) [\#1234259](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1234259)) ## 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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