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Forms: charge, charges. - I don't want to be any more **burden** to my parents. Je ne veux plus être aucune **charge** pour mes parents. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#325671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325671) [\#135606](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135606)) - David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a **burden** to me; David lui dit: Si tu viens avec moi, tu me seras à **charge**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 15:33) - And who has the **burden** of proof? et à qui appartient la **charge** de la preuve ? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 243378) - **Burden**-sharing and remuneration Répartition des **charges** et rémunération ([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 3151631) - A lower of administrative **burden**; Alléger la **charge** des administrations; ([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 14003996) ## fardeau Used about 8 358 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 308 · UN documents ≈ 8 019). - I don't want to be a **burden**. Je ne veux pas être un **fardeau**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5737337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5737337) [\#12218405](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12218405)) - The least **burden** would disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. Le moindre **fardeau** dérangerait son centre de gravité et le précipiterait. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9850) - For each man will bear his own **burden**. car chacun portera son propre **fardeau**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 6:5) - Those **burdens** obstruct the smooth functioning of the European single market. Ce **fardeau** nuit au bon fonctionnement du marché unique européen. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 710752) - V. SHARING OF **BURDENS** AND RESPONSIBILITIES - V. PARTAGE DU **FARDEAU** ET DES RESPONSABILITES - ([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 8792281) ## administratives Used about 652 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 51 · legal and administrative ≈ 267 · UN documents ≈ 334). - Madam President, Commissioner Bolkenstein, the administrative **burdens** on businesses operating in the EU must be minimised. Madame la Présidente, Monsieur le Commissaire, les formalités **administratives** des opérateurs exerçant leur activité dans l'ensemble de l' Union européenne doivent être réduites au minimum. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 203473) - Consequently, EFTA States can grant such guarantees without calculation of the corresponding aid equivalent and without administrative **burdens**. En conséquence, les États de l’AELE sont autorisés à accorder de telles garanties sans devoir calculer l’équivalent-subvention correspondant ni subir de contraintes **administratives**. ([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 5637890) - Delegations also expressed the need to reinvest savings into programmes and to reduce reporting and administrative **burdens**. Elles ont également estimé qu ' il fallait réinvestir les économies réalisées dans des programmes et alléger les procédures **administratives** et d ' établissement de rapports. ([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 18924504) - Stresses that simplifying Union legislation and reducing the administrative **burden** on farmers and other beneficiaries must continue in the future; souligne qu'il faut poursuivre la simplification de la législation de l'Union et la réduction des formalités **administratives** pour les agriculteurs et les autres bénéficiaires à l'avenir; ([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 5610412) - However, disproportionate movement restrictions and unnecessary administrative **burdens** for establishments and operators within the commercial fisheries sector should be avoided. Toutefois, il convient d'éviter des restrictions de mouvement disproportionnées et des lourdeurs **administratives** inutiles pour les établissements et les opérateurs du secteur de la pêche commerciale. ([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 3963483) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I don't want to be a **burden** on you. Je ne veux pas être un poids pour vous. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cairnhead and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4758684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4758684) [\#2017727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2017727)) - I don't want to **burden** you with my troubles. Je ne veux pas vous accabler avec mes ennuis. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Bruno · checked, community translation · [\#251995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251995) [\#7601](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7601)) - I don't want to be a **burden** to you. Je ne veux pas être un poids pour toi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2016857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2016857) [\#2017725](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2017725)) ## 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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