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Forms: défaillance, défaillances. - Researchers in this area should investigate what market **failure** we are facing before populist measures are taken. Les chercheurs dans ce domaine devraient étudier cette **défaillance** du marché avant que des mesures populistes ne soient prises. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 934707) - Evidence of market **failure** Preuve d'une **défaillance** du marché ([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 790907) - The **failure** shall be signalled. " Cette **défaillance** doit être signalée. > > . ([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 12761115) - Therefore I believe that legislative intervention should only be used as a last resort and to address proven market **failure**. Je pense donc qu'une intervention législative ne devrait être utilisée qu'en dernier recours pour corriger les **défaillances** avérées du marché. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 877564) - 2 (no single **failure** is accepted) 2 (**défaillance** unique non acceptée) ([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 2252684) ## échec Used about 12 038 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · parliamentary ≈ 2 528 · legal and administrative ≈ 172 · UN documents ≈ 9 249). Forms: échec, échecs. - The **failure** depressed him. L'**échec** l'a déprimé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and Barbiche0 · checked, community translation · [\#46930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/46930) [\#355153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/355153)) - The **failure** of the CFSP is our fault. L'**échec** de la PESC est notre faute. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 432678) - Number of completed blocks of 16 hours provided to a goup of at least 3 registered pupils at risk of school **failure**. Fourniture d'un bloc de 16 heures de tutorat à un groupe d'au moins 3 élèves inscrits à risque d'**échec** scolaire ([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 4244049) - **Failure** would plunge the nation into the abyss of anarchy. Un **échec** plongerait le pays dans l ' abîme de l ' anarchie. ([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 11553385) - The party was a **failure**. La fête était un **échec**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Delapouite · checked, community translation · [\#35629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35629) [\#1400787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1400787)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - What will happen if there's a power **failure** now? Que se passera-t-il si le courant s'arrête maintenant ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#241575](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241575) [\#823495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/823495)) - I have heart **failure**. Je souffre d’insuffisance cardiaque. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AutoBot and AutoBot · checked, community translation · [\#10704887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10704887) [\#10704890](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10704890)) - He is not man to lose heart at a single **failure**. Il n'est pas le genre de personne à se décourager à la moindre déconvenue. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#291652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/291652) [\#131158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131158)) ## 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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