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Forms: entreprise, entreprises. - Our **business** is expanding. Notre **entreprise** s'étend. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3622867](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3622867) [\#3625489](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3625489)) - In 1992 I started a small **business**. J'ai lancé une petite **entreprise** en 1992. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 904396) - International **Business** to **Business** (BtB) parcel services; services internationaux de colis d’**entreprise** à entreprise; ([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 1117902) - Commission on Enterprise, **Business** Commission des **entreprises**, de la facilitation ([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 5490257) - Our **business** is expanding. Notre **entreprise** se développe. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3622867](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3622867) [\#3625492](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3625492)) ## activités Used about 7 601 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 337 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 846 · UN documents ≈ 1 417). - Essentially, it is a billion-euro **business** that is all too often associated with criminal activities. Pour l'essentiel, c'est une activité qui draine des milliards d'euros et n'est que trop souvent associée à des **activités** criminelles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1344286) - None for commercial **businesses** Néant pour les **activités** commerciales ([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 98631) - It has adjusted the length and timing of its meetings to match the annual demands of **business**. Il a adapté la durée et le calendrier de ses réunions aux demandes annuelles d ' **activités**. ([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 26286511) - The proposal has as its objective the elimination from national law of all additional information disclosure requirements which increase **business** costs. Cette proposition a pour objectif d'éliminer du droit national toutes les exigences supplémentaires de publication qui augmentent le coût des **activités**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1166169) - **businesses** that are cash-intensive; **activités** nécessitant beaucoup d'espèces; ([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 3553651) ## affaires Used about 7 325 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 171 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 299 · UN documents ≈ 5 669). - That's their **business**. Ce sont ses **affaires**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#2251289](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251289) [\#8642605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8642605)) - There’s no **business** going on.” Il ne se fait pas d'**affaires**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17494) - and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward **business** of God’s house; Schabbethaï et Jozabad, chargés des **affaires** extérieures de la maison de Dieu, et faisant partie des chefs des Lévites; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 11:16) - As you know, block exemption regulations are very important instruments to the **business** community. Comme vous le savez, les règlements d'exemption par catégorie sont des instruments très importants pour le monde des **affaires**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1381523) - Financial reports and **business** plans Rapports financiers et plans d'**affaires** ([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 4917857) ## petites Used about 169 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 169). - Reducing or abolishing tobacco subsidies would entail the disappearance of small family **businesses** dotting the European landscape and would open wide the doors of the European market to American producers. Réduire ou supprimer les subventions au tabac entraînera la disparition de **petites** exploitations familiales maillant le territoire et ouvrira en grand les portes du marché européen aux producteurs américains. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 509147) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom and I were **business** partners. Tom et moi étions associés. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Maxence · checked, community translation · [\#2642178](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2642178) [\#7695588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7695588)) - He was travelling on **business**. Il était en déplacement professionnel. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#10683591](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10683591) [\#11953101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11953101)) - That is no **business** of his. Ça ne le concerne pas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and vandpatr · checked, community translation · [\#42165](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42165) [\#1306239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1306239)) ## 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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