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Merci de ces **éclaircissements**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 382004) - The points which required further **clarification** or evidence were outlined. Les points qui nécessitaient des **éclaircissements** ou des preuves ont été soulignés. ([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 2883465) - Please provide **clarification** in that regard. Fournir des **éclaircissements** à ce sujet. ([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 29491275) - If these **clarifications** need to be made, we will make them. S'il faut faire ces **éclaircissements**, nous les ferons. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2042922) - The Commission shall process the reports and shall request **clarifications** in case needed. La Commission examine ces rapports et demande des **éclaircissements** si nécessaire. ([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 4502415) ## clarification Used about 7 757 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 647 · legal and administrative ≈ 678 · UN documents ≈ 6 432). Forms: clarification, clarifications. - I just wanted **clarification**. Je voulais simplement une **clarification**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2012958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2012958) [\#2079170](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2079170)) - That is the first **clarification**. Voici la première **clarification**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1551580) - Reagent for **clarification** (Carrez I). Réactif pour la **clarification** (Carrez I). ([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 2079990) - She requested **clarification** of the proposed reforms. Elle demande des **clarifications** sur les réformes envisagées. ([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 7081315) - But this principle is not acceptable without some **clarification**. Mais ceci n'est pas acceptable sans **clarification**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 228016) ## précisions Used about 6 273 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 296 · legal and administrative ≈ 349 · UN documents ≈ 5 628). - Thank you for the **clarifications**. Merci pour ces **précisions**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10846911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10846911) [\#10867239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10867239)) - I would like to give some **clarifications**. Je voudrais donner quelques **précisions**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1219097) - By letter of 29 June 2009, further **clarification** was provided in relation to this request. Par lettre en date du 29 juin 2009, d'autres **précisions** ont été fournies à l'appui de cette demande. ([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 1703251) - **Clarifications** and additional information. **Précisions** et compléments d ' information Perspectives ([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 18895621) - We will ask Mr Pinior to make the necessary **clarifications**. Nous allons demander à M. Pinior de nous apporter les **précisions** nécessaires. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 874572) ## demandé Used about 41 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 41). - These companies requested **clarification** that they would continue to benefit from an exemption when they entered into such an arrangement. Ces sociétés ont **demandé** si elles continueraient à bénéficier d'une exemption lorsqu'elles concluraient un tel arrangement. ([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 3929627) - By letter dated 13 March 2006, the Commission requested further **clarifications**, which Portugal provided by e-mail dated 28 April 2006. Par lettre du 13 mars 2006, la Commission a **demandé** des renseignements complémentaires, demande à laquelle le Portugal a répondu par courrier électronique le 28 avril 2006. ([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 1150476) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Thanks for the **clarification**. Merci pour la précision. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4496564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496564) [\#11297210](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11297210)) - But let me state in any case, by way of **clarification**, that the structural fund programmes are multiannual programmes. Mais dans un souci de clarté, permettez-moi tout de même de déclarer que les programmes des fonds structurels portent sur des programmes pluriannuels. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1735806) - In any event, the President now has the floor if she believes, following that **clarification**, that she can reply to the question very briefly. Quoi qu'il en soit, si vous considérez, Madame la Présidente, à la lumière de ces explications, que vous pouvez répondre très brièvement à cette question, vous avez la parole. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 227476) ## 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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