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Forms: obligatoire, obligatoires. - It isn't **compulsory**. Ce n'est pas **obligatoire**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7198345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7198345) [\#13386556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13386556)) - Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and **compulsory** education with the growth of childhood, and make of science the base of manliness, develop minds while keeping arms busy, be at one and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, so that every citizen, without exception, may be a proprietor, an easier matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. Résolvez les deux problèmes, encouragez le riche et protégez le pauvre, supprimez la misère, mettez un terme à l'exploitation injuste du faible par le fort, mettez un frein à la jalousie inique de celui qui est en route contre celui qui est arrivé, ajustez mathématiquement et fraternellement le salaire au travail, mêlez l'enseignement gratuit et **obligatoire** à la croissance de l'enfance et faites de la science la base de la virilité, développez les intelligences tout en occupant les bras, soyez à la fois un peuple puissant et une famille d'hommes heureux, démocratisez la propriété, non en l'abolissant, mais en l'universalisant, de façon que tout citoyen sans exception soit propriétaire, chose plus facile qu'on ne croit, en deux mots sachez produire la richesse et sachez la répartir; et vous aurez tout ensemble la grandeur matérielle et la grandeur morale; et vous serez dignes de vous appeler la France. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18308) - We have **compulsory** registers. Nous avons des registres **obligatoires**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 192305) - Verification and **compulsory** collection Vérification et collecte **obligatoire** ([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 3029231) - B. Primary education - **compulsory** and available free to all B. Éducation primaire **obligatoire** et gratuite pour tous ([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 10573188) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Attendance is **compulsory** for all members. La présence de tous les membres est requise. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#273751](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/273751) [\#14646](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14646)) - In accordance with the law, the drinking was not **compulsory**; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure. Mais on ne forçait personne à boire, car le roi avait ordonné à tous les gens de sa maison de se conformer à la volonté de chacun. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EST 1:8) - Hence the report, for instance, is calling for a **compulsory** 25% target for renewable energies by the year 2020. C'est ainsi par exemple que le rapport demande la fixation d'un objectif contraignant de 25 % d'énergies renouvelables d'ici à 2020. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 898499) ## 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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