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# adjustment — English to French

How English *adjustment* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: adjustment (42 142), adjustments (29 188). By style: everyday 4 · parliamentary 2 710 · legal and administrative 16 516 · UN documents 52 100.

## ajustements

Used about 47 294 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 666 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 806 · UN documents ≈ 35 819). Forms: ajustement, ajustements.

- We need to make some **adjustments**.
  Nous devons faire quelques **ajustements**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8560366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8560366) [\#11714692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11714692))

- Everyone has had to make sacrifices and **adjustments**.
  Tout le monde doit faire des sacrifices et des **ajustements**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 995891)

- **Adjustments** for finance income
  **Ajustements** pour produits financiers
  ([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 5303508)

- C. Other income and **adjustments**
  C. Autres recettes et **ajustements**
  ([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 18170466)

- The decline isn't so sharp after seasonal **adjustment**.
  Le recul n'est pas si grand après **ajustement** saisonnier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#325184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325184) [\#1580266](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1580266))

## adaptations

Used about 1 427 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 395 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 032).

- But that has nothing to do with **adjustments** to the amounts.
  Cela n'a cependant rien à voir avec les **adaptations** à apporter aux montants concernés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 47813)

- technical **adjustments** to the list in Article 2;
  les **adaptations** techniques de la liste figurant à l'article 2;
  ([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 2854887)

- **Adjustments** had to be made to the draft directive and some have been proposed this time round as well.
  Des **adaptations** du projet de directive étaient nécessaires, les voici présentées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 128388)

- Those **adjustments** are specified in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1591/2001.
  Ces **adaptations** sont fixées à l'article 3, paragraphe 2, du règlement (CE) no 1591/2001.
  ([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 940323)

- These tests have taken 22 to 24 years, although some **adjustments** are taking place.
  Ces tests durent déjà depuis vingt-deux ou vingt-quatre ans. Certes, quelques **adaptations** sont apportées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 340462)

## More sentences

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

- You can adjust the seat height by moving the **adjustment** lever up.
  Tu peux ajuster la hauteur du siège en utilisant le levier de réglage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#329211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/329211) [\#727211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/727211))

- As you know, we have starting signing joint reports with each candidate country in order to monitor their **adjustment** to employment policy on an annual basis.
  Vous savez que nous avons commencé, avec chaque pays candidat, à signer des rapports communs afin de suivre sur une base annuelle leur adaptation à la politique de l' emploi.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 101171)

- An economic and monetary union without effective and adequate social **adjustment** is not acceptable and would be intolerable for all workers, both white- and blue-collar.
  Une union économique et monétaire qui n'apporte pas des corrections sociales efficaces et suffisantes est inacceptable et même invivable pour les ouvriers et les employés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1690203)

## Grammar

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