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# enterprises — English to French

How English *enterprises* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: enterprises (58 236). By style: everyday 3 · literary 1 · parliamentary 5 874 · legal and administrative 8 954 · UN documents 43 404.

## entreprises

Used about 51 228 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 325 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 208 · UN documents ≈ 40 691).

- Small **enterprises** are feeling the squeeze of inflation.
  Les petites **entreprises** ressentent la pression de l'inflation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#326112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/326112) [\#570461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/570461))

- 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)

- Of which: Small and Medium-sized **Enterprises**
  Dont: Petites et moyennes **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 3616758)

- 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 2 692 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 692).

- 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)

- 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)

- Nor can we accept Amendment No 12, which provides for a reduction in fees for small and medium-sized **enterprises**.
  L'amendement 12 également, qui prévoit une réduction des taxes pour les petites et **moyennes** entreprises, ne peut être reçu.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1973177)

## petites

Used about 367 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 367).

- 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)

- 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 122 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 122).

- 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.

- Introducing various incentives can help young farmers either to set up in business or (later) modernise their **enterprises**.
  L'introduction d'incitants divers peut aider ces jeunes soit à se lancer à leur compte, soit (ensuite) à moderniser leur entreprise.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1093276)

- I would also, Mr President, highlight the provisions that allow easier access to this market for small and medium-sized **enterprises**, specifically by improving the rules for subcontracting.
  Permettez-moi également, Monsieur le Président, de mettre l'accent sur les dispositions garantissant un accès facilité des PME à ce marché, notamment en améliorant les règles de sous-traitance.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1194749)

- In these circumstances, it is usually micro-**enterprises** and young entrepreneurs that suffer the most.
  Dans de telles circonstances, les plus touchés sont généralement les microentreprises et les jeunes entrepreneurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1315707)

## Grammar

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