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# draft — English to French

How English *draft* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: draft (554 541), drafts (3 877). By style: everyday 20 · literary 1 · parliamentary 10 683 · legal and administrative 12 544 · UN documents 535 170.

## projets

Used about 462 224 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 7 233 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 016 · UN documents ≈ 445 975). Forms: projet, projets.

- We also get to see preliminary **drafts**.
  Nous pourrons également voir des avant-**projets**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 284992)

- the submission of comments on **drafts**;
  envoi d'observations sur les **projets**;
  ([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 2717847)

- **DRAFT** PROGRAMME OF WORK FOR 2004-2008
  **PROJET** DE PROGRAMME DE TRAVAIL POUR 20042008
  ([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 11236726)

- In the 2008 **draft** budget they dropped to 0.95%.
  Dans le **projet** de budget 2008, ils sont tombés à 0,95 %.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 980579)

- Format of **draft** schedules of concessions
  Format des **projets** de listes de concessions
  ([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 175488)

## résolution

Used about 334 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 334).

- This hearing responds in part to the call in the **draft** resolution for an informative debate on the regulation.
  Cette audition répond partiellement à une demande formulée dans la proposition de **résolution** d' organiser un débat public d' information sur le règlement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 57982)

- You all have the power to rectify the situation. We could join together when we vote tomorrow on the **draft** resolution on the Russia Summit.
  Vous avez tous le pouvoir de remédier à cette situation en votant unanimement demain sur la proposition de **résolution** relative au Sommet UE-Russie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 521176)

- The next item is the joint debate on the following **draft** resolutions on Taiwan's observer status at the 56th World Health Assembly:
  L'ordre du jour appelle en discussion commune les propositions de **résolution** suivantes sur le statut d'observateur de Taïwan à la 56e Assemblée mondiale de la santé:
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 458572)

## More sentences

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

- Here's a rough **draft** of my speech.
  Voici un brouillon de mon discours.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2985697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2985697) [\#12611644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12611644))

- Your first **draft** should just be a brain dump.
  Votre premier jet devrait être un vidage de cerveau.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8046453](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8046453) [\#10309014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10309014))

- **Draft** beer tastes especially good on a hot day.
  La bière pression est particulièrement bonne par temps chaud.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#267093](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/267093) [\#10015337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10015337))

## 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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