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La **conception** acoustique a été impressionnante. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#11958653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958653) [\#12494040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12494040)) - How we **design** the system is therefore crucial. Notre **conception** du système est donc un élément crucial. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1181650) - (**design** option for alarm) (option de **conception** pour l'alarme) ([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 2254390) - 140. Phase 1: Planning and **design**. Phase 1 : planification et **conception**. ([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 21778886) - Are you suggesting it's a **design** flaw? Suggères-tu qu'il s'agit d'un défaut de **conception** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3732006](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3732006) [\#3816344](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3816344)) ## dessins Used about 4 205 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 291 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 930 · UN documents ≈ 1 984). - Legal protection of **designs** Protection juridique des **dessins** et modèles ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1758406) - INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF **DESIGNS** ENREGISTREMENT INTERNATIONAL DES **DESSINS** OU MODÈLES ([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 1069168) - Registered **Designs** (Jersey) Law 1957; Loi sur les **dessins** enregistrés (Jersey) de 1957 (Registered Designs (Jersey) Law); ([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 8056753) - The amount of intangible assets representing recipes, formulae, models, **designs** and prototypes. Montant des immobilisations incorporelles représentant les recettes, formules, modèles, **dessins** et prototypes. ([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 5313930) - Collection of **designs** and schedules by the Engineering **Design** Unit was ongoing as at 30 June 2008 Au 30 juin 2008, le Groupe d ' études techniques collectait les listes de quantités et les **dessins** techniques. ([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 18211692) ## modèles Used about 4 056 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 89 · UN documents ≈ 3 967). - Legal protection of **designs** (vote) Protection juridique des desseins ou **modèles** (vote) ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1009954) - A number of cooker **designs** are available. Il existe un certain nombre de **modèles** de fourneaux. ([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 7226494) - After all, it is only a matter of protecting **designs**, not patents. Il ne s'agit après tout que de protéger des **modèles**, pas des brevets. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1009083) - Granted patents, registered utility models and industrial **designs**, 1993-1998 Brevets accordés, **modèles** d ' utilité et dessins ou modèles industriels déposés, 1993-1998 ([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 7987306) - I am in full support of effective protection of **designs** in the EU Member States. Je suis, en tous points, favorable à une protection efficace des **modèles** au sein des États membres de l'UE. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1880082) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Have you chosen a house **design**? As-tu choisi un design de maison ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#11892929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11892929) [\#12494944](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12494944)) - The car's **design** is adaptive. Le design de la voiture a une grande capacité d'adaptation. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#11958939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958939) [\#12494945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12494945)) - The women **design** clothes. Les femmes créent des vêtements. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11158494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11158494) [\#11158521](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11158521)) ## 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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