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Forms: constructif, constructive, constructives. - Tom has **constructive** ideas. Tom a des idées **constructives**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#5621683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5621683) [\#5621729](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5621729)) - That is not a **constructive** way of working on the part of the EPP. Ce n'est pas une méthode de travail **constructive** de la part du PPE. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1294152) - Show a **constructive** attitude. Faire preuve d'une attitude **constructive**. ([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 774157) - But this process should be **constructive**. Mais ce processus doit être **constructif**. ([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 14927501) - That's a **constructive** suggestion! C'est une suggestion **constructive** ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CE and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#239066](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239066) [\#8430467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8430467)) ## remercier Used about 184 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 184). - Next, I should like to thank Mr Désir for his **constructive** amendments. Ensuite, je voudrais **remercier** M. Désir pour ses amendements constructifs. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 745970) - I would also like to thank the Member States, who have been very **constructive** in this area. Je voudrais également **remercier** les États membres qui ont été très constructifs dans ce domaine. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1407151) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Find a more **constructive** outlet for your emotions rather than persistently resorting to passive-aggressive jabs directed at me. Trouve un meilleur moyen d'exprimer tes émotions plutôt que de te livrer constamment à des attaques passives-agressives à mon égard. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#11847540](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11847540) [\#14037991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14037991)) - An example of a **constructive** obligation is where a change in the entity’s informal practices would cause unacceptable damage to its relationship with employees. À titre d’exemple, une obligation implicite existe dans le cas où un changement des usages de l’entité entraînerait une dégradation inacceptable de ses relations avec le personnel. ([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 2627861) - The existing undertakings were accepted in the spirit of seeking a **constructive** remedy to the injurious dumping. Les engagements existants ont été acceptés dans cet esprit, afin de remédier à la situation de dumping préjudiciable. ([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 954062) ## 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. 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