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Meaning: [century in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/century/). - Ce n'est pas le XIXe **siècle**. It's not the 19th **century**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#9534278](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9534278) [\#9793915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9793915)) - On n'est pas impunément un **siècle**. One is not a **century** with impunity. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13155) - C'était il y a 15 **siècles**. That was 15 **centuries** ago. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1362019) - Du XXe **siècle** à nos jours 20th **century** to the present ([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 4578824) - Des **siècles** d ' histoire nous le prouvent. **Centuries** of history teach us this lesson. ([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 23765027) ## first Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1). Meaning: [first in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/first/). - Quelle force naturelle pouvait produire de telles plantes, et quel devait être l'aspect de la terre aux premiers **siècles** de sa formation, quand, sous l'action de la chaleur et de l'humidité, le règne végétal se développait seul à sa surface! What natural force could have produced such plants, and what must have been the appearance of the earth in the **first** ages of its formation, when, under the action of heat and moisture, the vegetable kingdom alone was developing on its surface? ([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 2764) ## twenty Used about 1 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1). Meaning: [twenty in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/twenty/). - les vingt-quatre vieillards se prosternent devant celui qui est assis sur le trône, et ils adorent celui qui vit aux **siècles** des **siècles**, et ils jettent leurs couronnes devant le trône, en disant: the **twenty**-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 4:10) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - La vie est courte, même si elle dure plus d'un **siècle**. Life is short, even if it lasts more than a hundred years. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nbrr and CarpeLanam · checked, community translation · [\#5150330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5150330) [\#5149902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5149902)) - La conception de base de l'humble trombone n'a pas été altérée en un **siècle**. The basic design of the humble paper clip has not changed in over one hundred years. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#1686182](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1686182) [\#1725759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1725759)) - Des **siècles** ont passé depuis qu'une seule personne pouvait saisir l'ensemble de la connaissance scientifique. It's been hundreds of years since just one person could grasp the whole of scientific knowledge. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#968083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/968083) [\#968330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/968330)) ## 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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