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Forms: role, roles. - Tu dois accepter ton **rôle**. You must accept your **role**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1659623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1659623) [\#1586705](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1586705)) - L'égyptienne, qui s'était avancée sur le seuil de la cellule, vit avec surprise les **rôles** changer brusquement. The gypsy, who had advanced to the threshold of her cell, beheld with surprise their **roles** abruptly changed. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6460) - Elle exerce un **rôle** constructif dans sa région. It plays a constructive **role** in the region. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1136021) - Ressources, **rôles**, responsabilité et autorité Resources, **roles**, responsibility and authority ([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 1952284) - C. **Rôles** qui incombent aux gouvernements C. **Roles** of Government ([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 2905541) ## responsibilities Used about 6 586 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 273 · UN documents ≈ 6 313). - Une répartition claire des **rôles**, une répartition des responsabilités est également nécessaire pour ce qui est de savoir qui contrôle effectivement quoi. Moreover, a clear distribution of tasks and **responsibilities** is needed to establish who monitors what. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 308528) - Etant donné la diversité des **rôles** joués dans la dégradation de l ' environnement mondial, les Etats ont des responsabilités communes mais différenciées. In view of the different contributions to global environmental degradation, States have common but differentiated **responsibilities**. ([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 3019514) - Étant donné la diversité des **rôles** joués dans la dégradation de l ' environnement mondial, les États ont des responsabilités communes mais différenciées. In view of the different contributions to global environmental degradation, States have common but differentiated **responsibilities**. ([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 2874629) ## important Used about 3 443 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 273 · UN documents ≈ 3 157). Meaning: [important in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/important/). - J'ai un **rôle** important. I play an **important** part. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kjh and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#266602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266602) [\#772979](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/772979)) - Les consommateurs ont peut-être l'un des **rôles** les plus importants à jouer, en diffusant au sein de la société la prise de conscience qui s'impose. The consumers are perhaps one of the most **important** parts in this; they must be made aware. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1875214) - Les STN de pays en développement étaient promises à un bel avenir et continueraient de jouer un **rôle** important pendant quelque temps, surtout dans le cadre de la coopération SudSud. TNCs from developing countries were here to stay and would remain an **important** issue for some time, especially in the context of South - South cooperation. ([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 17819007) - Je joue un **rôle** important. I play an **important** part. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#266602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/266602) [\#6012848](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6012848)) - C'est le **rôle** important. This is the **important** part. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1619599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1619599) [\#1623766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1623766)) ## play Used about 550 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 546). Forms: play, played. Meaning: [play in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/play/). - L'acteur dont j'ai oublié le nom a joué le **rôle** principal dans beaucoup de films. The actor whose name I have forgotten has **played** the lead in many films. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6687247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6687247) [\#6675421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6675421)) - «Un fameux homme, s'écria mon oncle, mais il ne s'attend guère au merveilleux **rôle** que l'avenir lui réserve de jouer. "A famous fellow," cried my uncle; "but he little thinks of the marvellous part he has to **play** in the future." ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1001) - Le consommateur doit jouer un **rôle** actif au travers de sa consommation. Consumers must **play** an active part through their consumption, which should no longer be uninformed. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 435235) - «Messire, dit vivement Gisquette avec l'impétuosité d'une écluse qui s'ouvre ou d'une femme qui prend son parti, vous connaissez donc ce soldat qui va jouer le **rôle** de madame la Vierge dans le mystère? “Messire,” said Gisquette, with the impetuosity of an open sluice, or of a woman who has made up her mind, “do you know that soldier who is to **play** the part of Madame the Virgin in the mystery?” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 291) - La Commission, la Présidence et les 27 États membres ont fait le nécessaire pour que l'Union européenne assume son **rôle** sur la scène mondiale. The Commission, the Presidency and the 27 Member States ensured that the European Union **played** its part on the world stage. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1456347) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il a joué le **rôle** du Roi Lear. He acted the part of King Lear. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#293350](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/293350) [\#1349933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1349933)) - Olivier a joué le **rôle** de Hamlet. Olivier acted the part of Hamlet. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Barbiche0 and CP · checked, community translation · [\#64818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/64818) [\#334946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/334946)) - Ils ont bu à la fontaine à tour de **rôle**. They took turns drinking from the water fountain. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6827072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6827072) [\#12805913](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12805913)) ## 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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