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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#12008600](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12008600) [\#631579](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/631579)) - “Thanks, sir; I was about to ask the **favour**.” --Monsieur, répondit résolument Fix, j'allais vous demander cette **faveur**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1603) - I voted in **favour**. J'ai voté en **faveur** du rapport. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1170332) - Section 5: Aid in **favour** of forestry Section 5: Aides en **faveur** du secteur forestier ([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 3352103) - B. Policies in **favour** of indigenous peoples B. Politiques en **faveur** des populations autochtones ([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 4835351) ## favorise Used about 7 330 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 401 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 869 · UN documents ≈ 2 058). - Fortune **favours** the bold. La fortune **favorise** les audacieux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ooneykcall and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#4493258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4493258) [\#8576358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8576358)) - Its administration **favours** the many instead of the few. Son administration **favorise** le plus grand nombre plutôt qu'une élite. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1974809) - Further, it **favours** only certain undertakings and is therefore selective. Elle **favorise** en outre certaines entreprises, ce qui la rend sélective. ([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 2811288) - It also demands a stable and predictable context that **favours** the development of private activity. Il faut également qu ' existe un climat stable et prévisible qui **favorise** l ' activité du secteur privé. ([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 3447841) - We need clearer rules and an approach which **favours** enterprise, such as Mrs Kauppi proposes. Nous avons besoin de règles plus claires et d'une approche qui **favorise** les entreprises, comme Mme Kauppi le propose. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1015915) ## sélective Used about 144 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 144). - To be considered State aid, a measure must be selective, in the sense that it **favours** certain undertakings or the production of certain goods. Pour pouvoir être considérée comme une aide d’État, une mesure doit être **sélective**, c’est-à-dire qu’elle doit favoriser certaines entreprises ou certaines productions. ([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 3818301) - To be considered State aid, a measure must be specific or selective in that it **favours** only certain undertakings or the production of certain goods. Une mesure est réputée constituer une aide d’État lorsqu’elle est de nature individuelle ou **sélective**, c’est-à-dire qu’elle avantage uniquement certaines entreprises ou productions particulières. ([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 1979569) - To be considered state aid, a measure must be specific or selective in that it **favours** only certain undertakings or the production of certain goods. Une mesure est réputée constituer une aide d’État lorsqu’elle est de nature individuelle ou **sélective**, c’est-à-dire qu’elle avantage uniquement certaines entreprises ou productions particulières. ([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 2228879) ## productions Used about 96 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 96). - **favours** certain undertakings or the production of certain goods, favoriser certaines entreprises ou certaines **productions**, ([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 4163812) - In so far as they **favour** certain undertakings or the production of certain goods, they may constitute State aid as referred to in Article 107(1) of the TFEU. Dès lors qu’ils favorisent certaines entreprises ou certaines **productions**, ils sont susceptibles de constituer des aides d’État visées par l’article 107, paragraphe 1, du TFUE. ([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 2012729) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Could you do me a **favour**? Pourriez-vous me rendre un service ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BE and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3273828](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3273828) [\#551478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/551478)) - My dear Watson, you would confer a great **favour** upon me by coming. Mon cher Watson, vous me rendriez un grand service en venant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6957456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6957456) [\#8850070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8850070)) - Could you do me a **favour**? Tu pourrais me rendre un service ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BE and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#3273828](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3273828) [\#3273829](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3273829)) ## 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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