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Forms: exceptionnel, exceptionnelle, exceptionnelles, exceptionnels. - This is an **exceptional** case. C'est un cas **exceptionnel**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#55372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/55372) [\#7032296](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7032296)) - But, sad to say, from time to time, the **exceptional** becomes necessary. Mais, chose triste, de temps en temps, l'**exceptionnel** est nécessaire. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23694) - That is nothing **exceptional**. Il n'y a là rien d'**exceptionnel**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 225139) - **Exceptional** and critical circumstances Circonstances **exceptionnelles** et graves ([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 3626382) - Request approved on an **exceptional** basis Demande approuvée à titre **exceptionnel** ([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 19868110) ## circonstances Used about 159 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 35 · legal and administrative ≈ 123). - Having come into office in quite **exceptional** circumstances, they have managed to lay the foundations for a radical reform which will bear fruit in the future. Entrés en fonction dans des **circonstances** particulières, ils ont su mettre en chantier une réforme en profondeur qui portera ses fruits dans la durée. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 68931) - In such **exceptional** circumstances, a statement of the reasons why such summarisation is not possible shall be provided. Dans ces **circonstances**, les raisons pour lesquelles un résumé ne peut être fourni sont exposées. ([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 4001753) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He said to himself that it was true that there were **exceptional** cases, that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be framed within the text of the code, that the unforeseen compelled obedience, that the virtue of a convict might set a snare for the virtue of the functionary, that destiny did indulge in such ambushes, and he reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified against a surprise. Il se disait que c'était donc vrai, qu'il y avait des exceptions, que l'autorité pouvait être décontenancée, que la règle pouvait rester court devant un fait, que tout ne s'encadrait pas dans le texte du code, que l'imprévu se faisait obéir, que la vertu d'un forçat pouvait tendre un piège à la vertu d'un fonctionnaire, que le monstrueux pouvait être divin, que la destinée avait de ces embuscades-là, et il songeait avec désespoir que lui-même n'avait pas été à l'abri d'une surprise. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28620) - It is true that we have focused strongly on the economic problems that this **exceptional** and unforeseeable situation has caused. C'est vrai que nous nous sommes beaucoup focalisés sur les problèmes économiques que cette situation particulière et imprévisible engendre. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1371151) - That is why this matter is of **exceptional** political importance this week. Voilà pourquoi ce problème revêt un caractère politique d'une extrême importance cette semaine. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 79662) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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