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Forms: week, weeks. - Trois **semaines** sont passées. Three **weeks** went by. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1434382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1434382) [\#4900546](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4900546)) - Plusieurs **semaines** s'étaient écoulées. Many **weeks** had elapsed. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3582) - En ce temps-là, moi, Daniel, je fus trois **semaines** dans le deuil. In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole **weeks**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 10:2) - Nous en avons beaucoup discuté ces dernières **semaines**. We have discussed this issue a great deal in recent **weeks**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 190052) - ou 5 ou 6 fois par **semaine** or 5 - 6 days a **week** ([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 4596598) ## next Used about 16 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · biblical ≈ 1). Meaning: [next in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/next/). - Tom va acheter une nouvelle voiture en fin de **semaine** prochaine. Tom is going to buy a new car **next** weekend. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dolomitt and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1025029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1025029) [\#8274076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8274076)) - Depuis le lendemain du sabbat, du jour où vous apporterez la gerbe pour être agitée de côté et d’autre, vous compterez sept **semaines** entières. “‘You shall count from the **next** day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 23:15) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Je suis payé une fois par deux **semaines**. I'm paid fortnightly. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#2908858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2908858) [\#1624976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1624976)) - Deux **semaines** sont passées et je ne vous ai pas vues. A fortnight has passed and I haven't seen you. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10131911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10131911) [\#1721757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1721757)) - Deux **semaines** sont passées et je ne vous ai pas vus. A fortnight has passed and I haven't seen you. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10131911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10131911) [\#1721756](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1721756)) ## 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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