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Forms: contrat, contrats. - It's a huge **contract**. C'est un **contrat** énorme. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3441979](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3441979) [\#1800497](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1800497)) - My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good **contract**, and then they had a good carouse. Mes amis, autrefois, dans cet aimable autrefois, on se mariait savamment; on faisait un bon **contrat**, et ensuite une bonne boustifaille. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29292) - Europe is a **contract**, not a constraint. L'Europe est un **contrat**, ce n'est pas une contrainte. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 406771) - For the **Contract** with Electrocentrale Deva. Pour le **contrat** avec Electrocentrale Deva. ([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 3532743) - (b) in a written **contract**; or b) Dans un **contrat** écrit; ou ([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 11490662) ## marchés Used about 13 393 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 193 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 309 · UN documents ≈ 8 891). - Public service, public supply and public work **contracts** - water, energy, transport and telecommunications markets **Marchés** publics de services, de fournitures et de travaux - Marchés de l'eau, de l'énergie, des transports et des télécommunications ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1714233) - Division of **contracts** into lots Division des **marchés** en lots ([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 245396) - Procurement and **contract** management 12. Gestion des achats et des **marchés** ([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 25506966) - An entirely new feature of the Financial Regulation is the inclusion of rules such as those on the awarding of **contracts** and on financial aid. Le règlement financier intègre aussi des nouveautés telles que les règlements sur la passation de **marchés** et les aides financières. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 126581) - After consulting the Advisory Committee for Public **Contracts**, après consultation du comité consultatif pour les **marchés** publics, ([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 4525823) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Metal **contracts** when cooled. Le métal se contracte quand il est refroidi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#18498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18498) [\#9126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9126)) - For the Lord said to me, “Within a year, as a worker bound by **contract** would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail, Car ainsi m’a parlé le Seigneur: Encore une année, comme les années d’un mercenaire, Et c’en est fait de toute la gloire de Kédar. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 21:16) - But now the LORD has spoken, saying, “Within three years, as a worker bound by **contract** would count them, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.” Et maintenant l’Éternel parle, et dit: Dans trois ans, comme les années d’un mercenaire, La gloire de Moab sera l’objet du mépris, Avec toute cette grande multitude; Et ce qui restera sera peu de chose, presque rien. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 16:14) ## 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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