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Forms: seem, seems. - Il **semble** que je sois perdu. I **seem** to be lost. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#280382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/280382) [\#1314137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1314137)) - Mais il me **semble** qu'elle est finie. It **seems** to me quite finished.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2237) - Car il me **semble** absurde d’envoyer un prisonnier sans indiquer de quoi on l’accuse. For it **seems** to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 25:27) - Ceci me **semble** être l'élément le plus important. This **seems** to me to be the most important element. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1452079) - Il **semble** toutefois que cela n’ait pas été le cas. This **seems** however not to have been the case. ([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 2019781) ## appear Used about 12 548 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 659 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 359 · UN documents ≈ 10 516). Forms: appear, appears. Meaning: [appear in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/appear/). - Il **semble** qu'il était pressé. It **appears** that he was in a hurry. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#295205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/295205) [\#1066063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1066063)) - Tryphon n'enregistre point ces deux dernières trouvailles, attendu que Tryphon vivait au douzième siècle et qu'il ne **semble** point que le diable ait eu l'esprit d'inventer la poudre avant Roger Bacon et les cartes avant Charles VI. Tryphon does not record these two finds, since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not **appear** to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon’s time, and cards before the time of Charles VI. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7840) - Enfin, il me **semble** urgent de créer un observatoire européen de la cohésion territoriale. Finally, it would **appear** urgent to create a European monitoring centre for territorial cohesion. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 292187) - Ce traitement ne **semble** pas nuire aux micro-organismes. This does not **appear** to affect the micro-organisms adversely. ([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 3941076) - Il **semble** en effet que cela contribue à la sécurité dans les camps. This **appears** to be facilitating " law and order " in some camps. ([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 8656472) ## however Used about 5 099 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 659 · legal and administrative ≈ 59 · UN documents ≈ 4 382). Meaning: [however in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/however/). - Toutefois, vu le nombre d'amendements, il **semble** que certains veuillent encore l'allonger. **However** when I see the number of amendments there are, it looks as if some people are trying to drag the matter out. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1758845) - Toutefois, aucune des mesures ne **semble** satisfaire aux critères relatifs aux aides au sauvetage ou à la restructuration compatibles énoncés dans les lignes directrices S愦灭;amp;R. **However**, the criteria for compatible rescue or restructuring aid laid down in the R愦灭;amp;R Guidelines seemed not to be complied with by any of the measures. ([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 4827118) - Toutefois, cette attitude négative **semble** s ' être calmée au fil de la mission. **However**, as the mission continued, this negative dynamic seemed to recede. ([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 5387972) - La manière dont elle devra être combinée à la libéralisation proposée de l' OMC me **semble** toutefois encore fort imprécise. **However**, it is still unclear to me as to how this is to be combined with the proposed liberalisation of the WTO. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 144882) - Mais à ce qu ' il me **semble**, notre oeuvre collective n ' est pas achevée. **However**, it is my understanding that our collective task has yet to be completed. ([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 12482411) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - « Ces gens-là vont-ils de nouveau entrer en grève ? » « Il **semble** bien que oui. » "Will they go on strike again?" "I'm afraid so." ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#73964](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/73964) [\#135714](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135714)) - Ça **semble** étrange, n'est-ce pas ? It feels weird, doesn't it? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2396240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2396240) [\#2397231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2397231)) - Elle **semble** avoir beaucoup d'amies. It looks like she has a lot of friends. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · [\#454421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/454421) [\#1730710](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1730710)) ## 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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