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Forms: amendement, amendements. - The **amendment** is still pending ratification. L'**amendement** est toujours en attente de ratification. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7741289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7741289) [\#8966312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8966312)) - I am pleased that **Amendment** No 21 did. Je suis heureuse que l'**amendement** 21 l'ait été. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 309968) - No **amendment** shall be admissible if: Un **amendement** est irrecevable: ([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 2326232) - IV. **Amendments** to Appendix 2 IV. **Amendements** à l ' Appendice 2 ([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 22774453) - Some claim that full-body scanners violate the Fourth **Amendment**. Certains prétendent que les scanners corporels violent le quatrième **amendement**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2020447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2020447) [\#2022290](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2022290)) ## modification Used about 59 361 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 017 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 108 · UN documents ≈ 36 236). Forms: modification, modifications. - **Amendment** of the Rules of Procedure in light of the Statute for Members (vote) **Modification** du règlement à la lumière du statut des députés (vote) ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 991122) - **Amendment** to Directive 92/42/EEC **Modification** de la directive 92/42/CEE ([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 1437992) - 8. The Prison Act (2nd **Amendment**), 2007 8. Loi sur les prisons (2ème **modification**), 2007 ([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 26239804) - I am happy that Mr Busuttil is the rapporteur for Frontex so that in the future, we will have an even better functioning Frontex with **amendments**. Je suis heureuse que M. Busuttil soit le rapporteur pour Frontex, car, ainsi, moyennant quelques **modifications**, l'agence fonctionnera encore mieux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1494589) - **Amendment** of a letter of agreement **Modification** de la lettre d'agrément ([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 4958532) ## no Used about 1 575 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 575). - E Proposal for a draft **amendment** to Kingdom Regulation No. 36 (referring to document TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/R.280) Proposal for a draft amendment to Regulation **No**. 36 (referring to document TRANS/WP.29/GRSG/R.280) ([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 4369240) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Read the **amendment**. Lis l'avenant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8295086](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8295086) [\#11837532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837532)) - Some people want to bring about **amendments** to the constitution. Quelques personnes veulent amender la constitution. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and Bruno · checked, community translation · [\#497989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/497989) [\#497372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/497372)) - I am therefore sorry, Mr Matsakis, but we cannot take your **amendment** into account. Donc, Monsieur Matsakis, je suis désolé, nous ne pouvons pas prendre en compte le vôtre. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1171103) ## 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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