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Merci d'**adopter** cette phrase ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by WahahaDrills and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#4977040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4977040) [\#4977039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4977039)) - “I **adopt** this child,” said the priest. «J'**adopte** cet enfant», dit le prêtre. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2083) - (The Parliament **adopts** the resolution) (Le Parlement **adopte** la résolution) ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1754642) - **Adopt** the regional aid map, **Adopter** la carte des aides à finalité régionale. ([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 1349015) - The Panel **adopts** this decision. Le Comité **adopte** cette décision. ([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 8373144) ## parlement Used about 2 310 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 667 · UN documents ≈ 1 643). - I think it is likely that the amendments that Parliament **adopts** tomorrow will lead us to conciliation. Je pense que les amendements que le **Parlement** adoptera demain devraient nous conduire à une conciliation. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 698585) - 7. Suspension by the Independent Electoral Commission of any initiatives until Parliament **adopts** the planned reforms 7. Suspension par la CEI de toutes initiatives jusqu ' à l ' adoption par le **Parlement** des révisions projetées ([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 12501736) - This would apply especially to the European Parliament if we were to **adopt** inconsistent positions. Cette crise affecterait notamment le **Parlement** européen, dans le cas où nous adopterions des points de vue incohérents. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 226929) - 13. Legislative power is exercised by the parliament which **adopts** laws and is responsible for oversight of Government action. 13. Le Pouvoir législatif est exercé par le **parlement** qui vote les lois et contrôle l ' action gouvernementale. ([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 22239388) - Just as the European Parliament **adopts** a position on all Members, you will, of course, also be holding a hearing with Mrs Ashton. Bien entendu, au moment même où le **Parlement** européen se prononcera sur chacun des candidats commissaires, vous auditionnerez aussi Mme Ashton. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1307607) ## aussitôt Used about 95 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 95). - We also hope that additional Member States could **adopt** the euro as soon as they fulfil the criteria. En outre, nous espérons que d'autres États membres adopteront l'euro **aussitôt** qu'ils rempliront les critères. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 912296) ## européen Used about 95 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 95). - For my group, the essential cause is the way Europe **adopts** objectives which are very far removed from what the public expects. Pour mon groupe, la cause essentielle tient à la fixation, au niveau **européen**, d'objectifs très éloignés de l'attente des citoyens. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1695283) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Morality is simply the attitude we **adopt** toward people we dislike. La moralité n'est jamais que l'attitude que nous adoptons face aux gens que nous détestons. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#673294](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/673294) [\#809320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809320)) - Some people do not have a consistent set of principles; they just **adopt** whatever principles benefit them at the moment. Certaines personnes n'ont pas d'ensemble de principes cohérent ; ils adoptent simplement n'importe quel principe qui leur bénéficie sur le moment. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#569439](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/569439) [\#3521341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3521341)) - We need to **adopt** harsh measures to tackle the economic crisis. Nous devons appliquer des remèdes sévères à la crise économique. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11911281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11911281) [\#1054993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1054993)) ## 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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