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By style: everyday 759 · literary 11 · biblical 116 · parliamentary 1 869 · legal and administrative 237 · UN documents 106 404. ## requests Used about 65 113 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 65 113). - 5. **Prie** le Directeur général : 5. **REQUESTS** the Director-General: ([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 691638) - 3. **Prie** le Directeur exécutif : 3. **Requests** the Executive Director: ([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 3347173) - < < Le Chili **prie** respectueusement la Cour : " Chile respectfully **requests** the Court to: ([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 27181671) - 5. **Prie** la Puissance administrante de continuer d ' aider le territoire à prévenir la criminalité; 5. **Requests** the administering Power to continue to assist the Territory in crime prevention; ([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 596409) - 2. **Prie** le Secrétaire général de prendre les mesures nécessaires pour appliquer la présente résolution. 2. **Requests** the Secretary-General to take the action necessary to implement the present resolution. ([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 28919282) ## please Used about 3 017 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 727 · biblical ≈ 69 · parliamentary ≈ 534 · legal and administrative ≈ 99 · UN documents ≈ 1 588). Meaning: [please in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/please/). - Entre, je t'en **prie**. Do come in, **please**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#38905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/38905) [\#12775](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12775)) - Et il dit: Mes frères, je vous **prie**, ne faites pas le mal! He said, “**Please**, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 19:7) - Je **prie** les députés de se lever. I ask the Members to **please** rise. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1877337) - Je vous **prie** de recevoir la déposition: **Please** examine the witness ([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 5299024) - Je vous **prie** de bien vouloir trouver ci-joint le compte rendu des travaux menés par le Conseil de sécurité sous la présidence de la France en mai 2011 (voir annexe). **Please** find attached the assessment of the work of the Security Council during the presidency of France in May 2011 (see annex). ([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 25069409) ## report Used about 10 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 10). Meaning: [report in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/report/). - **prie** l'Office de communiquer à l'autorité de décharge les résultats de cette révision dès qu'ils seront disponibles; calls on the Office to **report** to the discharge authority on the results of that review as soon as they are available; ([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 5604197) - **prie** instamment la Commission de mettre pleinement en œuvre les recommandations formulées par la Cour des comptes dans le rapport annuel 2011; urges the Commission to fully implement the Court of Auditors’ recommendations contained in the Annual **Report** 2011; ([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 2759425) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Je vous **prie** de me pardonner. You must forgive me. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by queenie and shanghainese · checked, community translation · [\#38489](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/38489) [\#180655](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/180655)) - Je te **prie** de me présenter à elle. I would like you to introduce me to her. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#309420](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/309420) [\#808133](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/808133)) - Car si je **prie** en langue, mon esprit est en prière, mais mon intelligence demeure stérile. For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:14) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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