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Forms: durable, durables. - These trousers are made of **durable** cloth. Ces pantalons sont faits de tissu **durable**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#60953](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/60953) [\#7955563](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7955563)) - Human thought discovers a mode of perpetuating itself, not only more **durable** and more resisting than architecture, but still more simple and easy. La pensée humaine découvre un moyen de se perpétuer non seulement plus **durable** et plus résistant que l'architecture, mais encore plus simple et plus facile. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2680) - A military solution cannot be a **durable** one. La solution militaire ne peut être une solution **durable**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1862414) - **Durables** Biens de consommation **durables** ([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 3245369) - **DURABLE** ET DE L’ÉQUITÉ **DURABLE** ET DE L’ÉQUITÉ ([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 4146478) ## solutions Used about 398 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 394). Forms: solution, solutions. - The only way to get a **durable** settlement to the Kurdish question in Turkey is through a political solution, and that is the best way to combat the PKK. La seule façon de régler durablement le problème kurde en Turquie passe par une **solution** politique, qui est aussi la meilleure façon de lutter contre le PKK. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1330854) - (a) Continue to provide political will and leadership to attain **durable** solutions for all IDPs in Serbia; (a) Continue to provide political will and leadership to attain durable **solutions** for all IDPs in Serbia; ([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 29182914) - On that note, the Special Rapporteur reiterates the need for a technical agency in charge of the implementation of **durable** solutions for IDPs. On that note, the Special Rapporteur reiterates the need for a technical agency in charge of the implementation of durable **solutions** for IDPs. ([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 29182887) ## consommation Used about 201 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 197). - The introduction of euro notes and coins, then, also brings visible successes for consumers: prices for consumer **durables**, such as cars, will fall. L'introduction de l'euro fiduciaire apporte aussi des succès tangibles pour les consommateurs : les prix des biens de **consommation** de longue durée, comme les voitures, vont baisser. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 280189) - Imports of consumer goods Non-**durables** Importation de biens de **consommation** ([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 9160215) ## biens Used about 197 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 197). - Consumer **durables**: 88 to 99% of households at all levels are equipped with fridges, washing machines, colour televisions. **Biens** d ' équipement : 88 à 99 % des ménages à tous les niveaux sont équipés de réfrigérateur, machine à laver, télévision couleur. ([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 15388832) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Screws are more **durable** than nails. Les vis sont plus solides que les clous. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nylez and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10040498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10040498) [\#10266079](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10266079)) - This seems expensive, but it's so **durable** it will pay off in the long run. Ça semble cher, mais c'est tellement résistant que ce sera rentable sur le long terme. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#58723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/58723) [\#7809620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7809620)) - This rope is really **durable**. Cette corde est vraiment solide. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7905100](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7905100) [\#10265993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10265993)) ## 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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