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Meaning: [forty in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/forty/). - Je pense qu'elle a **quarante** ans. I think she's **forty**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bourdu and bart · checked, community translation · [\#1176992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1176992) [\#354780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/354780)) - --Cela fait **quarante** francs. “That makes **forty** francs.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4082) - les gens de Beth-Azmaveth, **quarante**-deux; The men of Beth Azmaveth: **forty**-two. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 7:28) - Malheureusement, **quarante** ans plus tard, peu de choses semblent avoir changé. **Forty** years on, sadly, little seems to have changed. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1382739) - Trente à **quarante** denrées alimentaires constituent les composantes principales du régime alimentaire dans l'Union. Thirty to **forty** foodstuffs constitute the major components of the diet in the Union. ([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 4930217) ## session Used about 1 457 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 457). Meaning: [session in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/session/). - La Présidente prononce la clôture des travaux de la **quarante**-cinquième session de la Commission. La Présidente prononce la clôture des travaux de la quarante-cinquième **session** de la Commission. ([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 8309977) ## commission Used about 119 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 119). Meaning: [commission in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/commission/). - La Commission transmet le projet de modification aux États membres, au plus tard **quarante**-cinq jours avant le vote. The **Commission** shall send the draft amendment to the Member States at least 45 days before voting. ([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 1081002) - Les parties intéressées peuvent également demander à être entendues par la Commission dans le même délai de **quarante** jours. Interested parties may also apply to be heard by the **Commission** within the same 40-day time limit. ([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 484578) - Les parties intéressées peuvent également, dans le même délai de **quarante** jours, demander par écrit à être entendues par la Commission. Interested parties may also apply in writing to be heard by the **Commission** within the same 40-day time limit. ([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 1858443) - Les membres des groupes consultatifs sont nommés par la Commission et agissent à titre personnel pour une durée de **quarante**-deux mois. Members of the Advisory Groups shall be appointed by the **Commission** to serve in a personal capacity for a period of 42 months. ([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 1374095) - Si la période d’évaluation doit être prolongée, la Commission en informe le demandeur dans un délai de **quarante** jours à compter de la réception de la demande. The **Commission** shall within 40 days of receipt of the application notify the applicant if the assessment period is to be extended. ([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 2411555) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - La deuxième guerre mondiale s'est achevée en dix-neuf-cents-**quarante**-cinq. World War Two ended in 1945. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#804182](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804182) [\#1509946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1509946)) - Tout le monde était éberlué qu'elle fut capable d'être enceinte à **quarante**-huit ans. Everyone was just flabbergasted that she was able to get pregnant at 48. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#715770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/715770) [\#801697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/801697)) - Il commença à régner à l'âge de **quarante** ans. He began his reign at the age of 40. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by franlexcois and JumJum · checked, community translation · [\#10081345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10081345) [\#4450636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4450636)) ## 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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