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By style: everyday 81 · literary 2 · parliamentary 5 957 · legal and administrative 10 648 · UN documents 82 025. ## remplacement Used about 22 516 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 124 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 886 · UN documents ≈ 20 506). - The correction mechanism will hopefully also be an **alternative** to the British rebate. Espérons que le mécanisme de correction constituera aussi une solution de **remplacement** au rabais britannique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 689469) - **Alternatives** to mercury and mercury compounds; Les solutions de **remplacement** du mercure et des composés du mercure; ([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 4174870) - (ii) **Alternatives** to mercury; ii) Les solutions de **remplacement** du mercure; ([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 25189894) - The only **alternative** to peace is peace, but to make this possible Europe must take practical action. La seule solution de **remplacement** de la paix est la paix, mais pour que cela soit possible, il faut que l'Europe s'y mette. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 499743) - **Alternatives** for the remaining applications are still not available. Pour les autres applications, on ne dispose pas encore de solutions de **remplacement**. ([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 4230955) ## alternatives Used about 16 807 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 599 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 771 · UN documents ≈ 9 399). Forms: alternative, alternatives. - There is an **alternative**. Il y a une **alternative**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Adrien\_FR · checked, community translation · [\#4494338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4494338) [\#11612538](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11612538)) - He weighed, he reflected, he considered the **alternatives**, the mysterious balance of light and darkness. Il pesa, il songea, il considéra les **alternatives** de la mystérieuse balance de lumière et d'ombre. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30101) - But there are **alternative** solutions. Or, il existe des solutions **alternatives**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1732194) - **Alternative** Energy (AE) Solar Co. Ltd **Alternative** Energy (AE) Solar Co., Ltd ([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 3043692) - Institute for African **Alternatives** (1989) Institute for African **Alternatives** (1989) ([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 15365593) ## solutions Used about 7 851 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 683 · legal and administrative ≈ 333 · UN documents ≈ 6 835). - You said that all **alternatives** are open? Vous avez dit que toutes les **solutions** devaient rester ouvertes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 317582) - the use of technically feasible and safe **alternatives** would entail disproportionate costs. le recours à des **solutions** de substitution techniquement possibles et sûres entraînerait des coûts disproportionnés. ([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 3318496) - **Alternatives** (products and processes): Autres **solutions** (produits et procédés): ([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 21507655) - The **alternatives** are quite clearly set out in the Gallagher report. Le rapport Gallagher nous présente très clairement les autres **solutions**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1961060) - the main **alternatives** to the proposed technology, techniques and measures studied by the applicant in outline. les principales **solutions** de substitution, étudiées par l’auteur de la demande d’autorisation pour remplacer la technologie proposée, sous la forme d’un résumé. ([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 2055497) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Is there no **alternative** to what you propose? N'y a-t-il pas d'autre choix que ce que vous proposez ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#16982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16982) [\#474209](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/474209)) - Do you know what they call **alternative** medicine that works? Medicine. Savez-vous comment on appelle une médecine parallèle qui fonctionne ? La médecine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2160780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2160780) [\#2161485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2161485)) - I have no **alternative**. Je n'ai pas d'autre choix. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#4499875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4499875) [\#10298740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10298740)) ## 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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