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Meaning: [viii in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/viii/). - Il est certain qu'en ce moment, dans l'esprit de Marius, aucun abus de pouvoir, aucune violence, aucune abomination des tyrans les plus prodigieux, aucune action de Busiris, de Tibère ou de Henri **VIII** n'égalait en férocité celle-ci: M. Fauchelevent emmenant sa fille en Angleterre parce qu'il a des affaires. It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of Tiberius, or of Henry **VIII**., could have equalled this in atrocity, in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to England because he had business there. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22222) - Section **VIII**, Médiateur européen Section **VIII**, European Ombudsman ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 111646) - **VIII** a et b **VIII** a and b ([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 1292670) - (catégories VII et **VIII**) Categories VII and **VIII** ([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 15984139) - Section **VIII**(A), Médiateur européen Section **VIII**(A) European Ombudsman ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 535527) ## century Used about 7 735 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 107 · UN documents ≈ 7 627). Meaning: [century in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/century/). - Le plaqueminier est un arbre fruitier de la famille des ébénacées, originaire de Chine, où sa culture a débuté au **VIIIe** siècle. The persimmon tree is a fruit tree belonging to the Ebenaceae family. It originated in China, where its cultivation began in the 8th **century**. ([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 3034549) - Partie d ' un ouvrage de jurisprudence du **VIIIe** siècle Part of a work on jurispridence; eighth **century** ([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 105263) - Au début du **VIIIe** siècle, l ' Arménie tombe entièrement sous la coupe arabe. At the beginning of the eighth **century** Armenia entirely fell under the Arab rule. ([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 29973183) - Un exemple célèbre est celui du moine aveugle qui a aidé à diffuser les arts et techniques chinois au Japon au **VIIIe** siècle. Examples included the famous blind monk who had helped to spread Chinese arts and technology to Japan in the eighth **century**. ([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 20668819) - Au **VIIIe** siècle après J.-C., la population de l ' Azerbaïdjan, y compris la majorité des Albanais, a été convertie à l ' islam. In the eighth **century**, the population of Azerbaijan, including the majority of Albanians, was converted to Islam. ([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 17998266) ## eighth Used about 3 525 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 5 · UN documents ≈ 3 520). Meaning: [eighth in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/eighth/). - C' est dans cet esprit qu' est née, au **VIIIe** siècle avant J.-C., la trêve olympique, qui a constitué un principe fondamental des Jeux olympiques. This is the spirit in which the Olympic truce, the fundamental principle behind the Olympic Games, was born in the **eighth** century. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 283662) - **VIIIe** réunion de la Commission de la culture, Lisbonne, avril **Eighth** Committee on Culture, Lisbon, April ([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 7227385) - Posons-nous cette question: l'Europe serait-elle ce qu'elle est aujourd'hui si, au VIIe et **VIIIe** siècles, les ruines de la Rome antique avaient été conquises et colonisées non par des sociétés chrétiennes mais par des musulmans ou autres? One has to ask: would Europe would be the Europe it is today if, in the seventh and **eighth** centuries, the ashes of ancient Rome had been conquered and settled not by Christian societies but by Muslim and any other? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1039936) - **VIIIe** réunion de la Commission du tourisme, La Havane, septembre **Eighth** Committee on Tourism, Havana, September ([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 7227417) - 1997 : **VIIIe** Conférence internationale contre la corruption, Lima, Pérou 1997: **Eighth** International Conference on Corruption, Lima, Peru ([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 4840117) ## waters Used about 107 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 107). - interdisant la pêche de la baudroie dans les zones **VIII** c, IX et X et dans les eaux communautaires de la zone Copace 34.1.1 par les navires battant pavillon du Portugal establishing a prohibition of fishing for anglerfish in VIIIc, IX and X; EC **waters** of CECAF 34.1.1 by vessels flying the flag of Portugal ([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 1880645) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Orientations budgétaires 2009 - (sections I, II, IV, V, VI, VII, **VIII** et IX) ( 2009 budget guidelines, other sections ( ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1058914) - Des 7, 5 milliards d'écus atteints lors du VI Fonds, elles ont passé à 10, 9 lors du VII Fonds pour atteindre 12, 8 milliards d'écus lors du **VIII** Fonds européen de développement. Under the VIth Fund the funding levels reached 7.5 billion ECU rising to 10.9 for the VIIth and 12.8 for the VIIIth. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1605864) - La fin du texte serait donc la suivante: «excepté les mesures visées aux titres **VIII** et XVIII». I trust the chairman of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, Mr Hughes, will have no objection. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1986072) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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