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# commitments — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: commitments (104 447). By style: everyday 2 · parliamentary 5 376 · legal and administrative 9 115 · UN documents 89 954.

## engagements

Used about 80 828 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 816 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 545 · UN documents ≈ 67 465).

- Tradesmen who do not fulfil **commitments** are incredibly annoying.
  Les commerçants qui ne remplissent pas leurs **engagements** sont incroyablement agaçants.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by janms and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3287794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3287794) [\#3485776](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3485776))

- Will the debtor evade his **commitments**?
  Le débiteur va-t-il se soustraire à ses **engagements**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 986139)

- **Commitments** and guarantees given
  **Engagements** et garanties donnés
  ([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 5168952)

- Voluntary pledges and **commitments**
  Promesses et **engagements** volontaires
  ([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 25573271)

- The promises and **commitments** made have not been fulfilled.
  Les promesses ou **engagements** n'ont pas été tenus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1948138)

## respecter

Used about 112 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 112).

- The Commission can only encourage them to stick to those **commitments**.
  La Commission ne peut que les encourager à **respecter** leur engagement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 379833)

## More sentences

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

- Due to the work **commitments** of one of the members, the meeting had to be postponed.
  À cause des contraintes professionnelles de l'un des membres, la réunion a dû être reportée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#1392097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1392097) [\#1392100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1392100))

- No legally binding **commitments** were signed.
  Aucun accord juridiquement contraignant n'a été signé.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1329650)

- Both the European Commission and the rapporteur adopt the voluntary **commitments** with industry in order to curb the drawbacks.
  Tant la Commission européenne que le rapporteur se fondent sur des accords volontaires avec l' industrie pour limiter les inconvénients.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 177957)

## Grammar

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