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Je suis très **compétent**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#5323436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5323436) [\#5558966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5558966)) - We are the most **competent** people for the job. Nous sommes les personnes les plus **compétentes** pour ce job. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1318323) - Name of **competent** authority: Nom de l'autorité **compétente**: ([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 3926969) - C Moor the vessel and inform the **competent** authority C Amarrer le bateau et informer l ' autorité **compétente** ([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 20904314) - I think he's **competent**. Je crois qu'il est **compétent**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1318823](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1318823) [\#1327403](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1327403)) ## autorité Used about 2 647 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 647). Forms: autorité, autorités. - (c) whenever required by the **competent** authority. c) chaque fois que cette **autorité** le requiert. ([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 11216896) - Hence, the **competent** public bodies (district registration authorities) decided to reject the lists of candidates. Par conséquent, les organes publics compétents (les **autorités** d ' enregistrement des districts) ont décidé de rejeter les listes des candidats. ([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 15051750) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I hope you're **competent**. J'espère que vous savez ce que vous faites. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and traeton · checked, community translation · [\#9302590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9302590) [\#10409048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10409048)) - The new waiter should be much more **competent**. Le nouveau serveur devrait être beaucoup plus performant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#838769](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/838769) [\#380121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/380121)) - He is as **competent** as he is presentable. Il est aussi bon que beau. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362968](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362968) [\#11507686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11507686)) ## 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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