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Meaning: [mean in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mean/). - Que **signifie** tout ceci ? What's it all **mean**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2870141](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2870141) [\#4869175](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4869175)) - --Monsieur, cela **signifie** que je reprends Cosette. “It **means**, sir, that I shall take back Cosette.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9209) - Et lorsque vos enfants vous diront: Que **signifie** pour vous cet usage? It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you **mean** by this service?’ ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 12:26) - Et que **signifie** rapidement? And what does quickly **mean**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1976094) - le terme «jours» **signifie** jours calendaires; ‘days’ **means** calendar days; ([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 3787689) ## signifies Used about 4 119 times in the texts (literary ≈ 6 · UN documents ≈ 4 113). - Il est inutile d'expliquer le sens de ce mot affreusement transparent qui **signifie** tout à la fois tuer, assassiner et dévaliser. It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent remark, which **signifies** both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21258) - A teardrop **signifies** the death of a " buddy " . A teardrop **signifies** the death of a " buddy " . ([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 9324678) - Le gamin examina la corde, le tuyau, le mur, les fenêtres, et fit cet inexprimable et dédaigneux bruit des lèvres qui **signifie**: The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which **signifies**:— ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21242) - The term " billion " **signifies** a thousand million. The term " billion " **signifies** a thousand million. ([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 29933686) - La jeune fille eut ce petit redressement en arrière accompagné d'un haussement de paupières qui **signifie**: Eh bien, qu'est-ce qu'il a donc? The young girl gave way to that slight straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of the eyelids, which **signifies**: “Well, what is the matter?” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15474) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - FMI **signifie** « Fonds Monétaire International ». IMF stands for International Monetary Fund. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#72216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/72216) [\#181661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/181661)) - Le mot allemand « Verschlimmbesserung » **signifie** une amélioration supposée qui rend les choses pire. The German word "Verschlimmbesserung" refers to a supposed improvement that makes things worse. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petrus and al\_ex\_an\_der · checked, community translation · [\#4457095](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4457095) [\#4472176](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4472176)) - Que **signifie** cette phrase ? What is the meaning of this phrase? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CC · checked, community translation · [\#59607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/59607) [\#571262](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/571262)) ## 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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