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Je m'excuse pour le **retard**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shishir and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1392467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1392467) [\#5599870](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5599870)) - "But are you not subject to considerable **delays**?" —Mais, enfin, vous n'êtes pas sujet à éprouver des **retards** considérables? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 797) - I am sorry for the long **delay**. Je vous présente mes excuses pour ce long **retard**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 591476) - **Delays** in the follow up of pre-debts **Retards** dans le suivi des prédettes ([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 3808775) - (b) **Delays** in the conduct of trials b) **Retards** dans le déroulement des procès ([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 4535349) ## délai Used about 5 006 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 213 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 876 · UN documents ≈ 2 911). - What is the **delay**? Quel en est le **délai** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1886728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1886728) [\#4548682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4548682)) - I particularly welcome the request that we **delay** for three months. Je soutiens en particulier la demande de **délai** supplémentaire de trois mois. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 832593) - Required Default **Delay** Time to Sleep, tSLEEP\_REQ **Délai** par défaut requis pour le passage en mode “veille”, tSLEEP\_REQ ([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 3122577) - Urges the State party to carry out such investigations without **delay**. Exhortation de l ' État partie à entreprendre sans **délai** les enquêtes nécessaires. ([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 21766837) - What's causing the **delay**? Qu'est-ce qui cause le **délai** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1886705](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1886705) [\#2061265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2061265)) ## sans Used about 4 123 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 373 · legal and administrative ≈ 834 · UN documents ≈ 2 911). - Do it without **delay**. Faites-le **sans** attendre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#9281409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9281409) [\#11619590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11619590)) - We had to cross a few narrow fiords, and at last quite a wide gulf; the tide, then high, allowed us to pass over without **delay**, and to reach the hamlet of Alftanes, one mile beyond. Il fallut bientôt traverser plusieurs petits fjörds **sans** importance, et enfin un véritable golfe; la marée, étale alors, nous permit de passer sans attendre et de gagner le hameau d'Alftanes, situé un mille au delà. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1171) - When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t **delay**, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought. Ils sont donc venus ici, et, **sans** différer, je m’assis le lendemain sur mon tribunal, et je donnai l’ordre qu’on amenât cet homme. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 25:17) - Moreover, I will resume voting time without **delay**. Je reprends d’ailleurs le cours du vote **sans** attendre. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 718340) - They shall notify the Commission and ESMA without **delay** of any subsequent amendments thereto. Ils notifient également **sans** tarder à la Commission et à l’AEMF toute modification ultérieure de celles-ci. ([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 5356300) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I'm sorry for the **delay** in responding. Je suis désolé pour la réponse tardive. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#320367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/320367) [\#135004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135004)) - We can't **delay** this any longer. Nous ne pouvons plus retarder cela. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3329445](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3329445) [\#13388580](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13388580)) - Don't **delay** today's work until tomorrow. Ne remets pas à demain ce que tu peux faire aujourd'hui. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alanood and LowMemory · checked, community translation · [\#1329460](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1329460) [\#14250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14250)) ## 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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