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Meaning: [return in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/return/). - Que veux-tu en **retour** ? What do you want in **return**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3378690](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3378690) [\#6947535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6947535)) - Je ne m'appesantirai pas sur les souffrances de notre **retour**. I will not speak of the sufferings we endured in our **return**. ([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 1788) - Et il s’en alla par un autre chemin, il ne prit pas à son **retour** le chemin par lequel il était venu à Béthel. So he went another way, and didn’t **return** by the way that he came to Bethel. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 13:10) - C'est une loi de **retours** en diminution. It is a law of diminishing **returns**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1174660) - Le **retour** à la viabilité The **return** to viability ([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 559845) ## refugees Used about 1 630 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 630). - Aide au **retour** des réfugiés dans leurs pays d ' origine Assistance for returning **refugees** ([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 8169042) - 29. Restitution des logements et des biens dans le cadre du **retour** des réfugiés et autres personnes déplacées 29. Housing and property restitution in the context of **refugees** and other displaced persons ([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 10587687) - Elle fournira également une assistance aux réfugiés ivoiriens de **retour** dans le pays, ainsi qu ' à ceux qui pourraient décider de ne pas revenir. They will also provide assistance to Ivorian returnees and **refugees** who may decide not to be repatriated. ([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 17709411) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom sera de **retour** la semaine prochaine. Tom will be back next week. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5253817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5253817) [\#5311659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5311659)) - Elle lui sourit en **retour**. She smiled back at her. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by casaniere and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#9499215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9499215) [\#9499158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9499158)) - Tout est de **retour** à la normale. Everything's back to normal. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3734292](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3734292) [\#6847664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6847664)) ## 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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