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# sommes — French to English

How French *sommes* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sommes (122 242). By style: everyday 3 501 · literary 61 · biblical 196 · parliamentary 42 051 · legal and administrative 2 130 · UN documents 74 303.

## now

Used about 9 113 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 73 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 4 380 · UN documents ≈ 4 644). Meaning: [now in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/now/).

- Nous **sommes** désormais responsables de votre protection.
  We are responsible for your protection from **now** on.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and minshirui · checked, community translation · [\#516747](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/516747) [\#545705](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/545705))

- —Et à quelle profondeur **sommes**-nous?
  "What depth have we **now** reached?"
  ([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 2705)

- La foi étant venue, nous ne **sommes** plus sous ce pédagogue.
  But **now** that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 3:25)

- Nous **sommes** maintenant arrivés à la fin de notre travail.
  **Now** we have reached the end of the story.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 609883)

- Je déclare ici solennellement que nous, les Roumains, **sommes** animés de cette volonté politique.
  I declare here and **now** that we, in Romania, have this political will.
  ([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 1507830)

## sums

Used about 4 028 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 932 · UN documents ≈ 3 096).

- **sommes** payées d’avance pour la fourniture de biens et de services,
  **sums** paid in advance for goods and services,
  ([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 1594753)

- Human Rights Action note que le montant des dommages-intérêts susceptibles d &apos; être accordés pour diffamation n &apos; étant pas limité, des **sommes** contestables ont été octroyées.
  HRA notes that as there is no limit in Montenegro for award of damages for defamation, dubious **sums** have been awarded.
  ([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 18585699)

- Les **sommes** à récupérer produisent des intérêts jusqu'à leur récupération effective.
  The **sums** to be recovered should bear interest until effective recovery.
  ([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 3803332)

- Cependant, et sans préjudice de la législation nationale, des tiers peuvent aussi être identifiés comme étant directement redevables pour le paiement des **sommes** dues.
  However, and without prejudice to national legislation, other parties may also be identified as being directly liable for the payment of **sums** due.
  ([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 15608580)

- Les **sommes** suivantes ont été payées au chômeur au vu de l’attestation ci-dessus:
  The following **sums** have been paid to the unemployed person on the basis of this certificate:
  ([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 540535)

## amounts

Used about 2 036 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 488 · UN documents ≈ 1 548).

- les **sommes** brutes à payer inscrites en comptes de passage
  gross **amounts** payable in respect of transit items
  ([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 1788466)

- **Sommes** constatées comme créances irrécouvrables
  **Amounts** written off as uncollectible
  ([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 28950620)

- les **sommes** brutes à percevoir inscrites en comptes d’attente,
  gross **amounts** receivable in respect of suspense items,
  ([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 621488)

- Remboursement de **sommes** versées dans le cadre de l’aide de l’Union aux pays tiers
  Repayment of **amounts** paid in connection with Union aid to third countries
  ([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 2752668)

- les **sommes** recouvrées à l'issue de procédures pénales et le préjudice estimé.
  the **amounts** recovered following criminal proceedings and the estimated damage.
  ([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 4233218)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Nous **sommes** trop occupées.
  We're too busy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2240674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2240674) [\#4801767](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4801767))

- Nous **sommes** tous des humains.
  We are all humans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sicerabibax and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#6049615](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6049615) [\#6049639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6049639))

- Nous avons emménagé dans cette maison le mois dernier, mais nous ne **sommes** pas encore installés.
  We moved into this house last month, but we still haven't settled down.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#28779](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28779) [\#862280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/862280))

## 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/).

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