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Pour l'Europe, un accord mettant l'**accent** sur les droits de douane serait toutefois clairement insuffisant. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1546353) - an analysis by critical element **focusing** on the main findings; une analyse de chaque élément critique en mettant l’**accent** sur les principales constatations; ([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 2963908) - Ensuring healthy and harmonious physical development of children, **focusing** on nutritional problems of pregnant women and children; Assurer le développement physique, sain et harmonieux des enfants, en mettant l ' **accent** sur les problèmes nutritionnels des femmes enceintes et des enfants; ([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 25940999) - Mr Howitt has already mentioned **focusing** on health, education and efforts to combat poverty. M. Howitt a déjà fait allusion à la nécessité de mettre l'**accent** sur les efforts en matière de pauvreté, de santé et d'éducation. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 364091) - developing countries, **focusing** on the particular needs of each country or region concerned, pays en développement, l'**accent** étant mis sur les besoins particuliers de chaque pays ou région concerné, ([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 867572) ## concentrer Used about 791 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 225 · UN documents ≈ 563). - I'm having trouble **focusing**. J'ai du mal à me **concentrer**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1911982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1911982) [\#1099860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1099860)) - There is just as much humanitarian concern in **focusing** on the victims of the conflict, irrespective of the character of the conflict. Il y a autant d'humanisme à nous **concentrer** sur les victimes du conflit, quel que soit son caractère. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2014028) - The WMO representative agreed on the timeliness of **focusing** on linkages between climate and air quality. Le représentant de l ' OMM est convenu que le moment était opportun pour se **concentrer** sur les liens entre le climat et la qualité de l ' air. ([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 19037688) - I'm incapable of **focusing**. Je suis incapable de me **concentrer**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#6104456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6104456) [\#3076268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3076268)) - The European Charter for Small Enterprises has been a valuable instrument **focusing** and reinforcing this work. La Charte européenne des petites et moyennes entreprises a constitué un instrument précieux en vue de **concentrer** et de renforcer ce travail. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 409523) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I'm **focusing** on my job. Je me concentre sur mon travail. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4963970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4963970) [\#7050272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7050272)) - I'm **focusing** on my job. Je suis concentré sur mon travail. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4963970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4963970) [\#7050271](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7050271)) - Discussions in New York are now **focusing** on moving beyond the existing sanctions towards a new Security Council resolution. Les discussions de New York portent désormais sur la mise à jour des sanctions actuelles et s'orientent vers une nouvelle résolution du Conseil de sécurité. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 913528) ## 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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