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# adequate — English to French

How English *adequate* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: adequate (130 487). By style: everyday 8 · parliamentary 4 056 · legal and administrative 10 002 · UN documents 116 421.

## adéquate

Used about 19 742 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 437 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 751 · UN documents ≈ 14 553). Forms: adéquat, adéquate.

- No definition of poetry is **adequate** unless it be poetry itself.
  Aucune définition de la poésie n'est **adéquate**, à moins qu'elle ne soit elle-même de la poésie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#841859](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/841859) [\#1802629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1802629))

- It does not have **adequate** secretarial assistance.
  Elle ne dispose pas d'assistance **adéquate** en matière de secrétariat.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 76236)

- an **adequate** audit trail;
  piste d'audit **adéquate**;
  ([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 3387804)

- (e) Ensure the **adequate** participation, particularly of the most food-insecure segments of the population;
  e) Assurer la participation **adéquate** de la population et, en particulier, des groupes les plus exposés à l &apos; insécurité alimentaire;
  ([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 20216617)

- If we don't obtain an **adequate** knowledge of their culture, a lot of problems could easily arise.
  Si nous n'obtenons pas une connaissance **adéquate** de leur culture, de nombreux problèmes pourraient facilement survenir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#274657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274657) [\#331014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/331014))

## suffisant

Used about 15 348 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 625 · UN documents ≈ 14 553).

- I don't consider that **adequate**.
  Je ne considère pas cela **suffisant**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2275975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2275975) [\#2420765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2420765))

- **Adequate** security will have to be achieved by 2011, while state building will inevitably take longer.
  Un niveau de sécurité **suffisant** devra être atteint en 2011, tandis que le renforcement de l'État prendra inévitablement plus de temps.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1321681)

- **Adequate** trough space should be provided to ensure that animals can feed simultaneously.
  Il convient de prévoir un espace à la mangeoire **suffisant** pour que les animaux puissent s'alimenter simultanément.
  ([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 1178941)

- 2. Right to an **adequate** standard of living
  2. Droit à un niveau de vie **suffisant**
  ([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 20254628)

- It does not seem **adequate** to me that individual States should do their utmost and be prepared to pay ransoms when someone is seized.
  Il ne me semble pas **suffisant** que certains États fassent tout leur possible et soient disposés à payer des rançons lorsque quelqu'un est enlevé.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 936037)

## niveau

Used about 2 803 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 208 · UN documents ≈ 2 425).

- An **adequate** level of financial know-how would, in many cases, reduce the risk of over-indebtedness and defaults on payments.
  Un **niveau** approprié de savoir-faire financier permettrait, dans la plupart des cas, de réduire le risque de surendettement et de défaillance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1162651)

- While the objective is to sample all animals reserved for this purpose (10/sex/dose level), smaller numbers may still be **adequate**.
  L'objectif est de prélever des échantillons sur tous les animaux réservés à cet effet (10/sexe/**niveau** de dose), mais un nombre inférieur demeure acceptable.
  ([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 3377161)

- In addressing the global financial crisis, **adequate** attention should be paid to the systemic and structural problems at the global level.
  En tâchant de remédier à la crise financière mondiale, il faudrait accorder l &apos; attention voulue aux problèmes systémiques et structurels existant au **niveau** mondial.
  ([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 20047915)

- However, **adequate** world, regional and, in our case, European institutions for supervising and monitoring these markets have not been established.
  Cependant, aucun organisme adapté à la surveillance et au contrôle de ces marchés n'a été mis en place au **niveau** mondial, régional ni, dans notre cas, européen.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1365999)

## More sentences

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

- I don't consider that **adequate**.
  Je ne considère pas que ce soit à la hauteur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2275975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2275975) [\#2420766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2420766))

- It is important for a nation to have an **adequate** mix of monetary and fiscal policies.
  Il est important pour une nation d'avoir un assemblage approprié de politiques monétaires et fiscales.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#27771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/27771) [\#865450](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/865450))

- This meal is **adequate** for three.
  Ce repas suffit pour trois.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#72682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/72682) [\#895035](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/895035))

## Grammar

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