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# acceptable — English to French

How English *acceptable* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [acceptable in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/acceptable/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: acceptable (32 459), acceptables (23). By style: everyday 36 · literary 1 · biblical 20 · parliamentary 4 789 · legal and administrative 4 207 · UN documents 23 429.

## acceptable

Used about 25 337 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 594 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 243 · UN documents ≈ 19 469). Forms: acceptable, acceptables.

- That's not **acceptable**.
  Ce n'est pas **acceptable**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2195461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2195461) [\#2195897](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2195897))

- This, taken as a whole, was very **acceptable**, as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a million.
  Tout cet ensemble était fort **acceptable**, comme on voit, surtout avec un appoint de plus d'un demi-million.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29211)

- I hope that Amendment 3 is now **acceptable**.
  J'espère que l'amendement 3 est désormais **acceptable**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 882490)

- **Acceptable** individual harmonic current In/I1
  Courant **acceptable** individuel d'harmoniques In/I1
  ([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 5565174)

- Such a selective approach was not **acceptable**.
  Cette approche sélective n &apos; est pas **acceptable**.
  ([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 7888309)

## More sentences

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

- There are conditions under which breaking a promise or telling a lie are **acceptable**.
  Il est des circonstances dans lesquelles rompre une promesse ou proférer un mensonge sont admissibles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#950168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950168) [\#1968840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1968840))

- That kind of behavior isn't **acceptable**.
  Ce genre de comportement est inacceptable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4529250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4529250) [\#6847691](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6847691))

- His proposal was not **acceptable**.
  Sa proposition était inacceptable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#287199](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/287199) [\#15333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15333))

## 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/).

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