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Je voudrais demander au commissaire de **préciser** sa réponse. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 23774) - The Council considers it necessary to **clarify** certain provisions. Le Conseil estime qu'il est nécessaire de **préciser** certaines dispositions. ([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 3172122) - To **clarify** the current problematic issues. **Préciser** les questions posant actuellement problème; ([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 24597790) - Mr Rübig, could you **clarify** your question a little further? Monsieur Rübig, pourriez-vous **préciser** quelque peu votre question? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1778870) - The Commission **clarifies** that this was done on a purely random basis. La Commission **précise** que le choix a été effectué sur une base purement aléatoire. ([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 3308296) ## clarifier Used about 4 939 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 1 321 · legal and administrative ≈ 802 · UN documents ≈ 2 808). Forms: clarifie, clarifier. - Can you **clarify** that? Pouvez-vous **clarifier** cela ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3327427](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3327427) [\#11603896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11603896)) - First, it was important to **clarify** what we mean by infrastructure. D'une part, il était important de **clarifier** ce qu'est une infrastructure. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 182789) - UNSCR 2094 (2013) **clarifies** the term “luxury goods”. La RCSNU 2094 (2013) **clarifie** le champ d'application du terme 愦灭;quot;articles de luxe愦灭;quot;. ([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 2785493) - **Clarifies** lines of management **Clarifie** les voies administratives ([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 24898923) - Let me **clarify** something. Laissez-moi **clarifier** quelque chose. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Tom9358 and genes1s · checked, community translation · [\#12961028](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12961028) [\#13353392](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13353392)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I just wanted to **clarify** that. Je voulais simplement m'en assurer. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3169457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3169457) [\#1564131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1564131)) - I would like to **clarify** a few things. Je voudrais mettre quelques choses au clair. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Olcyx · checked, community translation · [\#11188351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11188351) [\#12669889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12669889)) - **Clarify**. Clarifiez. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by langue and pkill · checked, community translation · [\#10057951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10057951) [\#10499883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10499883)) ## 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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