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# favourable — English to French

How English *favourable* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: favourable (23 842). By style: everyday 2 · literary 3 · parliamentary 1 931 · legal and administrative 3 812 · UN documents 18 094.

## favorable

Used about 12 427 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 609 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 653 · UN documents ≈ 7 162). Forms: favorable, favorables.

- The boy more than justified the **favourable** opinion they had formed of him.
  Le garçon a plus que confirmé l'opinion **favorable** qu'ils s'étaient fait de lui.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and altebrilas · checked, community translation · [\#46408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/46408) [\#2005407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2005407))

- At a hundred yards from Gardär the soil began to change its aspect; it became boggy and less **favourable** to progress.
  À cent pas de Gardär, le terrain commença à changer d'aspect; le sol devint marécageux et moins **favorable** à la marche.
  ([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 1159)

- I believe that the possibilities for improvement are **favourable**.
  Je pense que les perspectives de perfectionnement sont **favorables**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 388981)

- This second option was a more **favourable** solution.
  Cette seconde option constituait donc une solution plus **favorable**.
  ([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 862818)

- The response of survivors to the programme is also **favourable**.
  Les victimes réagissent également de manière **favorable** au programme.
  ([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 27487617)

## justes

Used about 5 277 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 5 277).

- Right to just and **favourable** conditions of work
  Droit à des conditions de travail **justes** et favorables
  ([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 3946968)

- Article 7: Right to just and **favourable** conditions of work
  Article 7 : Droit à des conditions de travail **justes** et favorables
  ([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 1886185)

- Article 7: The right to just and **favourable** conditions of work
  Article 7: Droit à des conditions de travail **justes** et favorables
  ([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 12083766)

- Article 7 - Right to just and **favourable** conditions of work
  Article 7 − Droit à des conditions de travail **justes** et favorables
  ([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 9233563)

- Article 7: Right to just and **favourable** working conditions
  Article 7: Droit de jouir de conditions de travail **justes** et favorables
  ([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 29644364)

## conditions

Used about 1 171 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 40 · UN documents ≈ 1 131).

- An interim package might make it possible to restore confidence in the system and to create conditions **favourable** to the launch of a new round as soon as possible.
  Un paquet intermédiaire pourrait aider à restaurer la confiance dans le système et à créer les **conditions** propices au lancement d' un nouveau cycle le plus tôt possible.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2041793)

- 5. Right to work and to just and **favourable** conditions of work
  5. Droit au travail et **conditions** de travail équitables et satisfaisantes
  ([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 18574941)

- Since 2000, the conditions governing the awarding of study grants have been somewhat more **favourable** for girls.
  Les **conditions** d &apos; attribution des bourses favorisent un peu plus les filles depuis 2000.
  ([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 11836519)

- (i) The rights to work, to free choice of employment, to just and **favourable** conditions of work, etc.
  (i) Droits au travail, au libre choix de son travail, à des **conditions** équitables et satisfaisantes de travail, etc.
  ([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 20553300)

## More sentences

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

- Due to lack of money the more advantageous solution initially chosen was abandoned in favour of a necessarily less **favourable** second choice.
  Par manque d'argent, la solution la plus bénéfique qui avait été choisit initialement fut abandonnée au profit d'une autre de deuxième choix, forcément moins avantageuse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by al\_ex\_an\_der and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2163809](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2163809) [\#2163813](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2163813))

- "Is the wind **favourable**?" my uncle asked.
  «Avons-nous bon vent? demanda mon oncle.
  ([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 783)

- Late in the day they passed through the capricious channels of Hong Kong, and the “Tankadere,” impelled by **favourable** winds, conducted herself admirably.
  Pendant les dernières heures de cette journée, la Tankadère navigua dans les passes capricieuses de Hong-Kong, et sous toutes les allures, au plus près ou vent arrière, elle se comporta admirablement.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1633)

## 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/).

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