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# bilateral — English to French

How English *bilateral* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [bilateral in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/bilateral/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: bilateral (70 479), bilaterals (76). By style: parliamentary 3 477 · legal and administrative 3 944 · UN documents 63 134.

## bilatéraux

Used about 65 659 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 346 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 783 · UN documents ≈ 58 530). Forms: bilatéral, bilatérale, bilatérales, bilatéraux.

- It is good that we are also concluding **bilateral** agreements.
  Nous avons raison de conclure des accords **bilatéraux**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1228977)

- eliminating and preventing non-tariff barriers to **bilateral** trade;
  supprimer et empêcher les obstacles non tarifaires aux échanges **bilatéraux**;
  ([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 318743)

- ON **BILATERAL** AND MULTILATERAL AGREEMENTS
  ET LES ACCORDS **BILATÉRAUX** ET MULTILATÉRAUX
  ([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 12107176)

- We have over a thousand **bilateral** investment agreements.
  Nous avons plus de mille accords **bilatéraux** d'investissement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1546505)

- the stimulation of **bilateral** trade, investment flows and economic partnerships;
  stimulation du commerce **bilatéral**, des flux d'investissement et des partenariats économiques;
  ([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 1091986)

## accords

Used about 146 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 66 · legal and administrative ≈ 80).

- Such **bilaterals** would undermine and delay the agreement just reached.
  De tels **accords** mineraient et retarderaient l'accord auquel nous venons de parvenir.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 913160)

- Should the amendments to the **bilateral** agreements and arrangements not have entered into force by the date of accession, the provisions of the first subparagraph shall apply.
  Si les modifications des **accords** et arrangements ne sont pas entrées en vigueur à la date d'adhésion, les dispositions du premier alinéa s'appliquent.
  ([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 169)

## More sentences

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

- I have no quarrel with that at all, but if we are going to have these **bilaterals** the Commission should be called upon to draw the lines very clearly and make sure they are properly controlled.
  Je n'y vois pas le moindre inconvénient, mais si nous signons ces traités, la Commission doit se charger d'en définir le cadre avec précision et de veiller à ce que leur application soit correctement contrôlée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2000453)

- ‘CSDA’ - CSD **bilateral** agreement
  «CSDA» – CSD bilateral agreement
  ([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 4918195)

- Most **bilateral** assistance is provided by members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
  La plus grande part en est fournie par les membres de l &apos; Organisation pour la coopération et le développement économiques (OCDE).
  ([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 827324)

## 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/).

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