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C'est très **efficace**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1894556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1894556) [\#1895039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1895039)) - for a great and **effective** door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. car une porte grande et d’un accès **efficace** m’est ouverte, et les adversaires sont nombreux. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 16:9) - Otherwise, this Directive will be less **effective** in practice. Sans cela, cette directive sera moins **efficace** dans la pratique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 876918) - Impose **effective** sanctions in case of infringements. Infliger des sanctions **efficaces** en cas d'infraction à ces règles. ([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 1356400) - III. **Effective** and efficient RIFs III. Des cadres réglementaires et institutionnels adaptés et **efficaces** ([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 25162340) ## effective Used about 85 851 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 669 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 247 · UN documents ≈ 79 933). Forms: effective, effectives. - My approach is amazingly simple but very **effective**. Mon approche est étonnamment simple mais très **effective**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gdfusion and Danquebec · checked, community translation · [\#3791558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3791558) [\#3794796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3794796)) - Equality has to be both real and **effective** and therefore non-discriminatory with regard to measures for the conservation of resources. La concurrence doit également être réelle et **effective** et, par conséquent, non discriminatoire en ce qui concerne les moyens de conservation des ressources. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2024815) - Consumption of **effective** power (VPe) Consommation de carburant de la puissance **effective** (VPe) ([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 3812610) - C. Ensuring the independence and **effective** functioning of the C. Ensuring the independence and **effective** functioning of the ([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 25713505) - 'Particular importance will be attached to the **effective** implementation of commitments on labour and environment of Chapter 13: Trade and Sustainable Development of the FTA. "Une attention particulière sera accordée à la mise en œuvre **effective** des engagements portant sur le travail et l'environnement du chapitre 13 de l'ALE: commerce et développement durable. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1501168) ## contre Used about 9 216 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 335 · UN documents ≈ 8 881). - Consequently, the way effectively to combat drugs lies, primarily, in **effective** precursor control. Ainsi, afin de lutter efficacement **contre** les drogues, il importe surtout de contrôler les précurseurs de ces drogues. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 429581) - Those engaged in such activities are entitled to **effective** protection under national law against any adverse action by the State.g Toute personne engagée dans ces activités a le droit d ' être efficacement protégée par la législation nationale **contre** tout acte malveillant de la part de l ' État. ([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 10051809) - 56. The representative of Japan said that micro credit was an important and **effective** instrument for the alleviation of poverty in developing countries. 56. Le représentant du Japon a déclaré que les microcrédits étaient un moyen important et utile de lutte **contre** la pauvreté dans les pays en développement. ([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 5475585) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - It is time to take **effective** action to ward off disaster. Il est temps d'agir efficacement pour éviter le désastre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2143062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2143062) [\#2143071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2143071)) - The law will be **effective** from the 1st of April. La loi entrera en vigueur à partir du 1er avril. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#44001](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/44001) [\#337253](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/337253)) - It is time to take **effective** action to ward off disaster. Il est temps d'agir efficacement pour parer à la catastrophe. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2143062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2143062) [\#13215497](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13215497)) ## 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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