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Meaning: [three in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/three/). - Tom a eu **trois** fils. Tom had **three** sons. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4493723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4493723) [\#12241360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12241360)) - **Trois** heures se passent. **Three** hours pass away. ([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 3006) - Il eut sept fils et **trois** filles: He had also seven sons and **three** daughters. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 42:13) - Je donnerai **trois** exemples. Let me give **three** examples. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1695441) - Essai de **trois** véhicules Test of **three** vehicles ([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 5543173) ## months Used about 662 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 662). - Il convient de fixer cette période à **trois** mois. That period should be set at 3 **months**. ([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 4635277) ## years Used about 662 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 662). - 50 % si cette période est supérieure à **trois** ans mais inférieure ou égale à cinq ans, 50 % if that period is more than 3 **years** but less than or equal to 5 years, ([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 3944704) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Des vingt-**trois** qui ont été arrêtés, quatre se sont échappés. Of the 23 who were arrested, four escaped. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and quickfitter · checked, community translation · [\#1439065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1439065) [\#1441149](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1441149)) - Si vous acceptez d'en commander 3000, nous vous faisons une remise de **trois** pour cent. If you agree to buy 3,000 of them, we'll give you a 3 percent discount. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and CK · checked, community translation · [\#570246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/570246) [\#763251](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/763251)) - Et il dit au peuple: Soyez prêts dans **trois** jours; ne vous approchez d’aucune femme. He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 19:15) ## 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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