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Tu peux maîtriser l'anglais sans pour autant **adopter** les habitudes américaines. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9075650](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9075650) [\#11768519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11768519)) - In **adopting** this text we are sending out a worrying message. C'est un signal inquiétant que nous donnons en **adoptant** ce texte. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 52818) - In the latter case, ACER shall consult the ENTSO for Electricity before **adopting** the amendments. Dans ce dernier cas, l'ACER consulte le REGRT pour l'électricité avant d'**adopter** les modifications. ([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 4965030) - (b) **Adopting** a subregional focus wherever appropriate; b) En **adoptant**, le cas échéant, une optique sousrégionale; ([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 12223208) - **Adopting** a low calorie diet will increase your lifespan. **Adopter** un régime alimentaire basses-calories augmentera votre durée de vie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1074090](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1074090) [\#1074483](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1074483)) ## adoption Used about 7 565 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 125 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 243 · UN documents ≈ 5 196). - I therefore voted in favour of **adopting** this resolution. J'ai par conséquent voté en faveur de l'**adoption** de cette résolution. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1411050) - **adopting** its rules of procedure portant **adoption** de son règlement intérieur ([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 4490985) - **Adopting** the overarching policy strategy. l) **Adoption** de la stratégie politique globale. ([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 12586678) - We really have to do something more than just **adopting** resolutions. Nous devons réellement aller plus loin que l'**adoption** de résolutions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1822283) - **adopting** the List of Panellists portant **adoption** de la liste des personnes appelées à faire partie des groupes spéciaux ([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 3140652) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - John regretted **adopting** Jessica. John a regretté d'avoir adopté Jessica. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11530477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11530477) [\#11530824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11530824)) - And **adopting**, in addition to his superiority, which was rather bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:— Et prenant, à travers sa supériorité un peu goguenarde, un accent d'autorité attendrie et de protection douce: ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20517) - We are using words that have no meaning, **adopting** directives which are neglected. Nous utilisons des formules qui ne veulent rien dire et nous adoptons des directives que personne ne prend en considération. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1880939) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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