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# approaches — English to French

How English *approaches* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: approaches (63 313). By style: everyday 10 · literary 1 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 1 345 · legal and administrative 2 343 · UN documents 59 611.

## approche

Used about 33 615 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 897 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 660 · UN documents ≈ 31 047). Forms: approche, approches.

- The enemy **approaches** the town.
  L'ennemi **approche** de la ville.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#426605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/426605) [\#500949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/500949))

- A moment later, the riot **approaches** and gains in force, he shuts up his shop precipitately, hastily dons his uniform, that is to say, he places his merchandise in safety and risks his own person.
  Un moment après, si l'émeute **approche** et gagne, il ferme précipitamment sa boutique et endosse rapidement son uniforme, c'est-à-dire met ses marchandises en sûreté et risque sa personne.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23164)

- “‘If a woman **approaches** any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
  Si une femme s’**approche** d’une bête, pour se prostituer à elle, tu tueras la femme et la bête; elles seront mises à mort: leur sang retombera sur elles.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 20:16)

- Act two: the vote on Customs Union **approaches**.
  Deuxième acte: le vote de l'union douanière **approche**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1633650)

- 6.2\* CAT II/III **approaches**:
  6.2\* **Approches** CAT II/III:
  ([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 4748600)

## méthodes

Used about 4 151 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 84 · legal and administrative ≈ 342 · UN documents ≈ 3 726).

- Therefore, we are also looking for innovative **approaches** on how to do this.
  Nous sommes donc à la recherche de **méthodes** innovantes pour ce faire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1542185)

- calculation **approaches** and results where missing data has been substituted by calculated values,
  les **méthodes** de calcul et les résultats obtenus lorsque les données manquantes ont été remplacées par des valeurs calculées,
  ([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 1657266)

- 29. There are different **approaches** dealing with strongly seasonal products.
  Il existe différentes **méthodes** pour traiter les produits dont le caractère saisonnier est très marqué.
  ([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 29695821)

- But we know very well that there are divergences in the **approaches** of the Member States.
  Néanmoins, nous savons très bien qu'il existe des divergences entre les **méthodes** utilisées par les États membres.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1497850)

- agreeing, on the basis of consensus, on proposals, **approaches** or documents of a procedural nature directly related to the functioning of this Agreement;
  en adoptant, sur la base du consensus, des propositions, des **méthodes** ou des documents de nature procédurale directement liés au fonctionnement du présent accord;
  ([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 2651968)

## nouvelles

Used about 1 243 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 1 242).

- AlphaZero is very particular about its openings – it only plays the best of the best, and how it **approaches** them has led to new advancements in opening theory.
  AlphaZero est très pointilleux sur ses ouvertures – il ne joue que le meilleur des meilleurs, et la façon dont il les aborde a conduit à de **nouvelles** avancées dans la théorie des ouvertures.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10520139](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10520139) [\#10520146](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10520146))

- The Government and UNDP alike are committed to eliminating the identified bottlenecks and adopting innovative new **approaches** where needed.
  Le Gouvernement et le PNUD entendent tous deux éliminer les goulets d &apos; étranglement constatés et adopter, le cas échéant, de **nouvelles** méthodes.
  ([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 10555315)

## différentes

Used about 56 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 56).

- However, there are different **approaches** to reaching this objective.
  Toutefois, il existe **différentes** façons de réaliser cet objectif.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1078625)

- There are many different legal traditions and, where legal policy is concerned, you can talk in terms of repressive and liberal **approaches**.
  Les traditions juridiques sont aussi très **différentes** et, au niveau de la politique de la justice, on peut envisager une attitude répressive et une attitude libérale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2021624)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Tom **approaches**.
  Tom se rapproche.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by verymuchso and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#7079699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7079699) [\#4608023](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4608023))

- “Tell them, ‘If anyone of all your offspring throughout your generations **approaches** the holy things which the children of Israel make holy to the LORD, having his uncleanness on him, that soul shall be cut off from before me. I am the LORD.
  Dis-leur: Tout homme parmi vos descendants et de votre race, qui s’approchera des choses saintes que consacrent à l’Éternel les enfants d’Israël, et qui aura sur lui quelque impureté, cet homme-là sera retranché de devant moi. Je suis l’Éternel.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 22:3)

- A few days ago, Commissioner, it was said on the subject of the Michelin debate that intelligent **approaches** to restructuring were required.
  Madame la Commissaire, il y a quelques jours, à propos du débat sur Michelin, on a dit que des restructurations intelligentes étaient nécessaires.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2029856)

## Grammar

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