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J'en **accepte** le risque. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2291573](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2291573) [\#2291726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2291726)) - Misery offers; society **accepts**. La misère offre, la société **accepte**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4163) - My group cannot **accept** it. Mon groupe ne peut l’**accepter**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 543856) - **accept** the lot as established, or soit **accepter** le lot tel quel; ([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 729943) - Bhutan **accepts** the recommendation. Le Bhoutan **accepte** la recommandation. ([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 22056950) ## amendements Used about 564 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 564). - We therefore **accept** the four amendments which have been proposed. Nous acceptons donc les quatre **amendements** qui nous ont été proposés. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 294) - With that, permit me to move on to the amendments which have been tabled, Madam President. The Commission **accepts** many of the proposals. Permettez-moi, Madame le Président, de passer aux **amendements** présentés, dont un grand nombre est approuvé par la Commission. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1597356) - The Council's common position **accepts** Parliament's amendments designed to take account of the special position of Somalia and its banana producers. La position commune du Conseil a repris les **amendements** de notre Parlement visant à tenir compte de la situation particulière de la Somalie et de ses producteurs de bananes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1947985) - The report is very comprehensive, detailed and precise, and I congratulate Mrs Jöns on her willingness to **accept** suggestions and amendments that have improved the text. Le rapport est très complet, détaillé et précis. Je tiens à féliciter également Mme Jöns pour avoir accepté des suggestions et des **amendements** qui ont enrichi le texte. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 467615) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You'll **accept** the gifts. Vous accepterez les cadeaux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#3571937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3571937) [\#2100687](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2100687)) - She didn't **accept** a word of her daughter's excuse. Elle ne crut pas un mot de ce que sa fille lui donna comme excuse. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by karloelkebekio and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#8152902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8152902) [\#2931983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2931983)) - I decided to **accept** Islam. J'ai décidé de me convertir à l'islam. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8200253](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8200253) [\#11756778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11756778)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## 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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