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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2013588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2013588) [\#7067847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7067847)) - For him to send word that he would call in the evening, something urgent and important must be in the wind; and the four Rolands looked at each other, disturbed by the announcement as folks of small fortune are wont to be at any intervention of a lawyer, with its suggestions of **contracts**, inheritance, lawsuits—all sorts of desirable or formidable contingencies. Pour qu'il eût annoncé sa visite dans la soirée, il fallait qu'il s'agît d'une chose urgente et importante; et les quatre Roland se regardèrent, troublés par cette nouvelle comme le sont les gens de fortune modeste à toute intervention d'un notaire, qui éveille une foule d'idées de **contrats**, d'héritages, de procès, de choses désirables ou redoutables. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 193) - the number of renewals of such **contracts** or relationships. le nombre de renouvellements de tels **contrats** ou relations de travail. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 981094) - The operation and maintenance **contracts** Les **contrats** d’exploitation et de maintenance ([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 5642582) - H. Validity and formation of **contracts** 162 — 171 H. Validité et formation des **contrats** 162 — 171 ([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 5556011) ## marchés Used about 10 810 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 238 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 948 · UN documents ≈ 6 625). - 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) - It also provides the service of their Tender Opening Committee and Local Committee on **Contracts**. Il les aide également au sein de leur Comité d ' ouverture des plis et de leur comité local 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 25417470) - 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 us it was important for there to be sanctions in the event of corruption, even down to exclusion from **contracts**. Pour nous, il était important de sanctionner les auteurs de corruption, jusqu'à les exclure des procédures de passation le cas échéant. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1194664) - There are many examples, the most recent of which are GOODYEAR and LEVIS, while SIEMENS is holding its employees hostage in order to establish new **contracts**. Il en existe de nombreux exemples, comme Goodyear et Levis, tandis que Siemens exerce du chantage sur ses employés pour obtenir de nouvelles conventions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1649983) ## 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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