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Meaning: [how in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/how/). - Car il sait de **quoi** nous sommes formés, Il se souvient que nous sommes poussière. For he knows **how** we are made. He remembers that we are dust. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 103:14) - Ils ne nous ont jamais réellement signalé combien de contrôleurs contrôlaient **quoi**, quand et où au sein des États membres. They have never really reported to us about **how** many supervisors in the Member States supervise what, when and where. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2012357) - les durées de vie des mesures et la méthode pour les calculer ou ce sur **quoi** elles se fondent; the lifetimes of measures, and **how** they are calculated or what they are based upon; ([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 4572709) - Et en **quoi** l ' approche sexospécifique s ' écarte-t-elle de celle qui ne porte que sur les femmes? And **how** is the gender approach different from one that focuses only on women? ([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 5223671) - Abram répondit: Seigneur Éternel, à **quoi** connaîtrai-je que je le posséderai? He said, “Lord GOD, **how** will I know that I will inherit it?” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 15:8) ## know Used about 1 525 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 762 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 752). Meaning: [know in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/know/). - Je sais **quoi** ignorer. I **know** what to ignore. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2376337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2376337) [\#2385895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2385895)) - Savez-vous de **quoi** il est question ici? Do you **know** what the question is here? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25623) - Mais **quoi**! N’avez-vous point interrogé les voyageurs, Et voulez-vous méconnaître ce qu’ils prouvent? Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you **know** their evidences, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 21:29) - Reconnaissez-le franchement, nous saurons ainsi à **quoi** nous en tenir. Just say it honestly, and then we will **know** where we stand. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 465821) - Tom ne sait pas **quoi** dire. Tom doesn't **know** what to say. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Khirthash and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1026079](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1026079) [\#3113011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3113011)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Eh, c'est **quoi** ça ? Hey, what's that? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3448814](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3448814) [\#6283943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6283943)) - Tu ferais **quoi** si t'étais un écureuil ? If you were a squirrel, what would you do? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blizb and sharris123 · checked, community translation · [\#7770339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7770339) [\#11162577](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11162577)) - Hé ! **Quoi** de neuf ? Hi! What's new? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#30308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/30308) [\#13698](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13698)) ## 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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