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Forms: surface, surfaces. Meaning: [surface in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/surface/). - La **surface** de cette table est lisse. This table's **surface** is smooth. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and keira\_n · checked, community translation · [\#1079144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1079144) [\#1642802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1642802)) - La **surface** de cette cohue était grise, sale et terreuse. The **surface** of this rabble was dingy, dirty, earthy. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5645) - Mais une vapeur s’éleva de la terre, et arrosa toute la **surface** du sol. but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole **surface** of the ground. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 2:6) - En Finlande, les eaux de **surface** sont très propres. In Finland **surface** waters are very clean. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 11567) - degré, 愦灭;lt; 6 % de la **surface** corporelle , 愦灭;lt; 6 % of body **surface** ([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 5668282) ## area Used about 5 069 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 140 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 577 · UN documents ≈ 2 342). Meaning: [area in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/area/). - L'arbitre a sifflé une faute dans la **surface**. C'est penalty. The referee called a foul inside the **area**. It's a penalty. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#9182470](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9182470) [\#11223842](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11223842)) - Les **surfaces** de cultures céréalières de l'UE doivent maintenant être étendues. Now the **area** of cereal-growing land in the EU is to be expanded. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1624913) - **Surface** en cm2 par kg **Area** in cm2 per kg ([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 629233) - La **surface** terrestre est d ' environ 352 kilomètres carrés. The total land **area** is about 352 square kilometres. ([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 21926380) - L'arbitre a sifflé une faute dans la **surface**. C'est penalty. The referee blew for a foul inside the **area**. It's a penalty. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11818423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11818423) [\#11223842](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11223842)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Le sous-marin est remonté à la **surface**. The submarine has surfaced. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10361113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10361113) [\#3177486](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3177486)) - Il aurait déjà dû remonter à la **surface**. He should have surfaced by now. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#12411727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12411727) [\#12422465](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12422465)) - La pollution de l'environnement déclencha des changements climatiques sur toute la **surface** de la Terre. Environmental pollution triggered climatic changes all over Earth. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and nonong · checked, community translation · [\#1594185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1594185) [\#1595440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1595440)) ## 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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