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Forms: constitutionnel, constitutionnelle, constitutionnelles, constitutionnels. - The **constitutional** court will issue a decision by noon today. La Cour **constitutionnelle** rendra une décision aujourd'hui à midi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1127419](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1127419) [\#9065926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9065926)) - A lie wedded 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became **constitutional**; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. Le mensonge épousa 1789, le droit divin se masqua d'une charte, les fictions se firent **constitutionnelles**, les préjugés, les superstitions et les arrière-pensées, avec l'article 14 au coeur, se vernirent de libéralisme. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7594) - There too **constitutional** changes were excluded. Là aussi, les changements **constitutionnels** ont été exclus. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1269522) - No **constitutional** requirements indicated. Pas d'obligations **constitutionnelles** signalées. ([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 137012) - B. **Constitutional** and legislative framework B. Cadre **constitutionnel** et législatif ([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 20376557) ## constitution Used about 4 545 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 230 · UN documents ≈ 4 315). - There is no such thing as the ‘**Constitutional** Treaty’. Le «traité établissant une **Constitution** pour l’Europe» n’existe pas. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 811383) - This **Constitutional** Act forms an inseparable part of the 1995 Constitution of Azerbaijan. This Constitutional Act forms an inseparable part of the 1995 **Constitution** of Azerbaijan. ([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 13846684) - They include the protection of the rights of communities, protection of cultural and religious heritage and basic **constitutional** and security provisions. Ils englobent la protection des droits des communautés, la protection du patrimoine culturel et religieux et des dispositions fondamentales concernant la **Constitution** et la sécurité. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 952225) - protects the **constitutional** right for a regular legal process (article 131, point f of the Constitution). Protège le droit garanti par la **Constitution** à une procédure régulière (art. 131 f) de la Constitution). ([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 10840980) - Guarantee the **constitutional** right of citizens to a full secondary education, and improve its quality Garantir, comme le prévoit la **Constitution**, le droit des citoyens à l ' enseignement secondaire obligatoire et améliorer la qualité de cet enseignement ([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 18933476) ## obligations Used about 1 438 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 438). - Since then, the **constitutional** position in Equatorial Guinea has been that the Basic Law should be strictly observed as the direct source of rights and obligations. Le principe constitutionnaliste en Guinée équatoriale est donc que le texte fondamental doit être strictement respecté en tant que source directe de droits et d ' **obligations**. ([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 20370311) ## droit Used about 230 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 230). - Such things should not happen in a **constitutional** state. Un État de **droit** ne peut tolérer une telle situation. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1654229) - Both approaches are necessary if we are to help Russia become a flourishing, democratic **constitutional** state. Les deux stratégies doivent être suivies simultanément pour promouvoir l'évolution de la Russie sur la voie d'un État de **droit** démocratique et prospère. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 131130) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Our whole case hinges on whether the government's actions were **constitutional** or not. Toutes nos affaires dépendent de la constitutionnalité ou non des actions du gouvernement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#629395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/629395) [\#814920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/814920)) - The Committee on **Constitutional** Affairs did not wish to express its opinion on Article 308. La commission AFCO n'a en effet pas souhaité se prononcer sur l'article 308. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 883461) - There is one sentence in which the Commission considers that it is opportune to examine the possibility of providing the Union with a **constitutional** text. Ainsi, le document contient une phrase selon laquelle la Commission estime qu'il est opportun d'envisager la possibilité de doter l'Union d'un texte fondamental. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 269262) ## 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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