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J'ai une **dette** envers lui. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#249978](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249978) [\#3626713](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3626713)) - But here; I will pay your **debts**, I will send for your child, or you shall go to her. Mais voici: je payerai vos **dettes**, je ferai venir votre enfant, ou vous irez la rejoindre. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4434) - The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the **debt**. Ému de compassion, le maître de ce serviteur le laissa aller, et lui remit la **dette**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 18:27) - The **debts** are interrelated with one another. Ces **dettes** sont indissolublement liées. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1171680) - Maximum Net **Debt** B **Dette** Nette maximale B ([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 3875218) ## créances Used about 8 280 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 149 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 569 · UN documents ≈ 5 560). - That company is on the rocks because of bad **debts**. Cette entreprise est au bord du gouffre à cause de **créances** irrécouvrables. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zumley and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#49048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49048) [\#13401304](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13401304)) - The level of success in recovering unpaid **debts** is remarkably low. par écrit. - Le degré de succès du recouvrement des **créances** impayées est remarquablement faible. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1549420) - Capital depreciation on **debts** Moins value sur **créances** ([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 1692036) - Provisions for doubtful **debts** Provision pour **créances** douteuses ([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 28955966) - One final point that seems particularly important to me is the possibility of writing off **debt** of not less than EUR 5 000. Un dernier point que j'estime particulièrement important concerne la possibilité d'amortir les **créances** égales ou supérieures à 5 000 euros. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1489519) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Italy and France are in a lot of **debt**. L'Italie et la France sont très endettées. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#11790765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11790765) [\#3088827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3088827)) - I'm up to my ears in **debt**. Je suis endetté jusqu'au cou. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#7860593](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7860593) [\#1865836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1865836)) - You're thirty thousand dollars in **debt**. Tu es endettée de trente mille dollars. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2640920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2640920) [\#7804063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7804063)) ## 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. 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