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Et on voudrait que la France **modifie** sa constitution dans ce sens? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1800399) - Annex 3, the title, **amend** to read: Annexe 3, titre, **modifier** comme suit: ([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 5497653) - GE.03-23256, **amend** to read: GE.03-23257, **modifier** comme suit : ([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 11260373) - Amendment No 2 **amends** the initial Commission proposal. L' amendement 2, quant à lui, **modifie** la proposition initiale de la Commission. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 20211) - A Member State may **amend** its strategy. Un État membre peut **modifier** sa stratégie. ([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 4240046) ## suit Used about 1 181 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 181). - Table 1 (former), renumber as table 3 and **amend** its title to read: L ' ancien tableau 1 devient le tableau 3 et son titre est modifié comme **suit**: ([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 9878055) - Paragraph 6.2.3. (former), renumber as paragraph 6.2.4. and **amend** to read: L ' ancien paragraphe 6.2.3 devient le paragraphe 6.2.4, modifié comme **suit**: ([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 19252926) ## comme Used about 645 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 54 · UN documents ≈ 590). - In the interests of this matter, Mr President, it is therefore extremely important to **amend** this part of the text. Va-t-on les forcer à mettre en uvre un acquis que le Parlement considère **comme** étant obsolète ? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 241264) - An offer of **amends** is not regarded as an admission of liability, and the offer may be withdrawn before it is accepted. Une telle offre de réparation n ' est pas considérée **comme** une reconnaissance de responsabilité, et elle peut être retirée tant qu ' elle n ' est pas acceptée. ([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 18661872) - Commissioner, it must also be possible, as you have mentioned, for Member States to gain knowledge, so that they then see some decisions differently or **amend** them. Madame la Commissaire, les États membres doivent également avoir la possibilité d'être informés, **comme** vous l'avez signalé, pour voir certaines décisions différemment ou les amender. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1264911) - Taking up the appeal of the victims' relatives, we therefore ask for Cesare Battisti to be brought before the Italian judicial system, which will know how to show - as it has done in hundreds of other cases of former terrorists who are now reintegrated into social and civil life - that to be punished is also to make **amends**, as the Italian, Cesare Beccaria, taught Western legal civilisation, and not just intimidation or brutalisation, as the Brazilian authorities fear. En relayant l'appel des familles des victimes, nous demandons que Cesare Battisti soit traduit devant la justice italienne, qui saura comment démontrer - **comme** elle l'a fait dans des centaines d'autres cas impliquant d'anciens terroristes qui sont maintenant réintégrés dans la vie sociale et civile - que punir, c'est aussi corriger, comme l'a enseigné l'Italien Cesare Beccaria au système judiciaire occidental, et pas seulement intimider ou brutaliser, comme le craignent les autorités brésiliennes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1481760) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - We'll need to **amend** the contract so that we can pay you more. Nous devrons réviser le contrat de manière à pouvoir vous payer davantage. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#680180](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/680180) [\#1102263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1102263)) - Some people want to **amend** the constitution. Certaines personnes veulent amender la constitution. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#239077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239077) [\#11481335](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11481335)) - I'm ready to make **amends**. Je suis disposée à me repentir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4402019](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4402019) [\#4403762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4403762)) ## 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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