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# deadline — English to French

How English *deadline* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [deadline in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/deadline/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: deadline (25 078), deadlines (9 653). By style: everyday 48 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 677 · legal and administrative 7 484 · UN documents 24 521.

## délai

Used about 18 117 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 1 394 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 237 · UN documents ≈ 10 473). Forms: délai, délais.

- Can you make the **deadline**?
  Peux-tu tenir le **délai** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#73510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/73510) [\#1336032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1336032))

- The **deadlines** were abysmal.
  Les **délais** étaient très restreints.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 532885)

- Is that **deadline** respected?
  Ce **délai** a-t-il été respecté?
  ([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 3931396)

- Reporting cycle and **deadlines** for reporting (art. 8)
  Cycle et **délais** de la notification (art. 8)
  ([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 13742130)

- Can you make the **deadline**?
  Pouvez-vous tenir le **délai** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#73510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/73510) [\#1336033](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1336033))

## limite

Used about 8 950 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · parliamentary ≈ 28 · legal and administrative ≈ 468 · UN documents ≈ 8 429).

- He missed the **deadline**.
  Il a raté la date **limite**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1737139](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1737139) [\#1737802](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1737802))

- The one-year **deadline** set by the parties for signing a permanent status agreement is an ambitious one.
  La **limite** d' une année fixée par les parties pour la conclusion d' un accord permanent est ambitieuse.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2015237)

- **Deadline** for compliance with Article 16(3)
  Date **limite** de mise en conformité avec l’article 16, paragraphe 3
  ([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 1764501)

- **Deadline** and expected Results/Comments
  Date **limite** et résultats attendus/observations
  ([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 24597474)

- He missed the **deadline**.
  Il a loupé la date **limite**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1737139](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1737139) [\#1737803](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1737803))

## échéance

Used about 1 093 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 418 · legal and administrative ≈ 156 · UN documents ≈ 511).

- We have a **deadline**.
  Nous avons une **échéance**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2548511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2548511) [\#7763103](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7763103))

- This **deadline** has been brought forward by two years for the public sector.
  Cette **échéance** a été avancée de deux ans pour le secteur public.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1384592)

- When a **deadline** has passed, a reminder is sent immediately at both administrative and Ministerial level, and the national Parliament is informed.
  Lorsqu'une **échéance** est dépassée, un rappel est immédiatement émis aux niveaux administratif et ministériel et le parlement national est informé.
  ([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 597598)

- **Deadline** for the completion of the dialogue phase
  **Échéance** de clôture de la phase de dialogue
  ([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 26770227)

- I have a **deadline** to meet.
  J'ai une **échéance** à respecter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3822481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3822481) [\#10680376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10680376))

## date

Used about 897 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 307 · legal and administrative ≈ 78 · UN documents ≈ 511).

- We have a **deadline**.
  Nous avons une **date** butoir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2548511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2548511) [\#7763102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7763102))

- The **deadline** for this proposal was 1 June 2010.
  La **date** butoir pour cette proposition était le 1er juin 2010.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1523457)

- The applicant at whose request fenbutatin oxide had been approved did not submit the confirmatory information by the **deadline** of 31 May 2013.
  À la **date** butoir du 31 mai 2013, le demandeur qui avait sollicité l'approbation de l'oxyde de fenbutatine n'avait communiqué aucune information confirmative.
  ([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 3311480)

- Mobility is a major source of anxiety among staff, as the **deadline** for implementing the mandatory mobility programme approaches.
  Alors que la **date** de mise en œuvre du programme de mobilité obligatoire approche, ce sujet soulève bien des inquiétudes parmi le personnel.
  ([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 14716658)

- It was due time to reach it, because the **deadline** had been passed.
  Il était temps d'y arriver, parce que nous avons dépassé la **date** limite.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1804959)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the **deadline**,
  Les serviteurs de Saül rapportèrent ces paroles à David, et David agréa ce qui lui était demandé pour qu’il devînt gendre du roi.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 18:26)

- Perhaps we could hold the **deadline** on just that single issue until 11 a.m. or noon tomorrow to enable our resolution to be up-to-date and to make sense.
  Nous pourrions peut-être reporter ce point particulier à demain 11 heures ou dans l'après-midi, pour que notre proposition soit à jour et qu'elle ait un sens.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1603246)

- Many of us should have liked to have seen 2020 become a more definite **deadline** for meeting the WHO' s recommendations.
  Nous étions cependant nombreux à souhaiter que 2020 eusse été l' année de la réalisation finale des recommandations de l' OMS.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 281031)

## 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/).

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