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# enterprise — English to French

How English *enterprise* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: enterprise (40 729), enterprises (58 236). By style: everyday 8 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 7 011 · legal and administrative 13 418 · UN documents 78 524.

## entreprises

Used about 80 738 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 090 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 020 · UN documents ≈ 64 619). Forms: entreprise, entreprises.

- The **enterprise** was doomed to failure.
  L’**entreprise** était vouée à l’échec.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by orcrist and MartinShadock · checked, community translation · [\#47252](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/47252) [\#2502777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2502777))

- He added with the air of a profound thinker, “One is indebted sometimes to fortune, sometimes to ruse, for the happy issue of great **enterprises**.”
  Il ajouta, avec une mine de profond penseur: «On est obligé, quelquefois à la fortune, quelquefois à la ruse, de l'heureuse issue des grandes **entreprises**.»
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8111)

- Jobs are created by **enterprises**.
  Les emplois sont créés par les **entreprises**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1754778)

- a — Investments in **enterprise**
  Investissements dans les **entreprises**
  ([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 4014103)

- Small and Medium **Enterprises**
  Petites et moyennes **entreprises**
  ([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 11174646)

## moyennes

Used about 1 899 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 899).

- Small and medium-sized **enterprises** are shutting down en masse.
  Les petites et **moyennes** entreprises ferment en masse.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1365020)

- One area stands out: the small and medium-sized **enterprise** sector.
  Un secteur se distingue: les petites et **moyennes** entreprises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1762362)

- Mr President, the economic crisis has had an effect on Europe's small and medium-sized **enterprises**.
  Monsieur le Président, la crise économique a frappé les petites et **moyennes** entreprises européennes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1557965)

- The amendment is, therefore, likely to be particularly beneficial for small and medium sized **enterprises**.
  L'amendement devrait par conséquent profiter tout particulièrement aux petites et **moyennes** entreprises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1092389)

- This in itself makes possible savings of 10 billion Ft for Hungarian small and medium-sized **enterprises**.
  Elle va permettre à elle seule des économies de 10 milliards de forints pour les petites et **moyennes** entreprises hongroises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 890038)

## développement

Used about 818 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 818).

- include strong measures in favour of **enterprise**
  de mesures énergiques en faveur du **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 3213412)

## petites

Used about 292 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 292).

- The Council set that orientation at Feira, with the Charter for Small **Enterprises**.
  C'est le Conseil qui a donné ce cap à Feira, via la Charte des **petites** entreprises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 112256)

- Secondly, the Charter for Small **Enterprises** must be implemented with a measure of determination.
  Deuxièmement, la Charte européenne des **petites** entreprises doit être mise en ?uvre avec détermination.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 340674)

- We would very much welcome a more efficient implementation of the small **enterprise** policy, which will soon celebrate its second birthday.
  Nous apprécierions également beaucoup une mise en œuvre plus efficace de la politique en faveur des **petites** entreprises à la veille du deuxième anniversaire de celle-ci.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1439649)

- The government of Afghanistan must make more purposeful use of international aid to develop small **enterprises** and agriculture in regions where opium is currently grown.
  Le gouvernement afghan doit utiliser plus efficacement l'aide internationale pour développer les **petites** entreprises et l'agriculture dans les régions qui cultivent actuellement de l'opium.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1465378)

## secteur

Used about 146 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 146).

- I therefore take the view that the financial risk should be borne equally by the public sector and private **enterprise**.
  Dès lors, je pense que le risque financier devrait être supporté, à parts égales, par le **secteur** public et par l'économie privée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 291936)

- There is enormous unexplored potential, which could create a large number of jobs if exploited commercially, particularly via SMEs: small and medium-sized **enterprises**.
  Il y a là un énorme potentiel à explorer, car l'exploitation commerciale de ces informations peut créer de nombreux emplois, notamment par l'intermédiaire du **secteur** des PME.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 500907)

## More sentences

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

- He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their **enterprise**.
  Il anéantit les projets des hommes rusés, Et leurs mains ne peuvent les accomplir;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 5:12)

- There are not a few in the scientific world who envy my success, and many would be ready to undertake this **enterprise**, to whom our return should be the first news of it."
  Je ne manque pas d'envieux dans le monde des savants, et beaucoup voudraient entreprendre ce voyage, qui ne s'en douteront qu'à notre retour.
  ([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 429)

- Fauchelevent did not recoil in the face of this almost chimerical undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous **enterprise**, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît.
  Devant cette tentative presque chimérique, Fauchelevent ne recula point; ce pauvre paysan picard, sans autre échelle que son dévouement, sa bonne volonté, et un peu de cette vieille finesse campagnarde mise cette fois au service d'une intention généreuse, entreprit d'escalader les impossibilités du cloître et les rudes escarpements de la règle de saint Benoît.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11202)

## Grammar

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