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Forms: fonctionnel, fonctionnelle, fonctionnelles, fonctionnels. - I think everything is **functional**. Je pense que tout est **fonctionnel**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2407725](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2407725) [\#3257469](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3257469)) - This is a **functional** Agency. C'est une Agence **fonctionnelle**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1807295) - Physical or **functional** link Lien matériel ou **fonctionnel** ([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 1700066) - Non-**functional** launcher element (Ariane 4 V 74) Elément lanceur non **fonctionnel** (Ariane 4 vol 74) ([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 21444675) - This kitchen is very **functional**. Cette cuisine est très **fonctionnelle**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4493168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4493168) [\#12773456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12773456)) ## techniques Used about 4 262 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 262). - 1 Rules of Procedure of the **Functional** Commissions of the Economic and Social Council, E/5975/Rev.1. 1/ Règlement intérieur des commissions **techniques** du Conseil économique et social (E/5975/Rev.1). ([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 5129208) - The two Commissions are the only **functional** commissions whose bureaux meet to discuss issues of mutual interest. Ces deux commissions sont les seules commissions **techniques** dont les bureaux se rencontrent pour examiner des questions d ' intérêt commun. ([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 8035277) - The Secretariat will bring to the attention of other **functional** commissions relevant decisions of the Commission on the Status of Women; Le Secrétariat appellera l ' attention d ' autres commissions **techniques** sur les décisions pertinentes de la Commission de la condition de la femme; ([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 3904278) - Note by the Secretary-General on the activities of the **functional** commissions of the Economic and Social Council that are relevant to the work of the Statistical Commission Note du Secrétaire général sur les activités des commissions **techniques** du Conseil économique et social qui intéressent les travaux de la Commission de statistique ([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 9190681) - That is for instance the case in some equally **functional** organizations, such as the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). C ' est par exemple le cas d ' organisations également **techniques**, comme l ' Union postale universelle (UPU) et l ' Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM). ([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 13303039) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Is this engine **functional**? Est-ce que ce moteur est en état de marche ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#61302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/61302) [\#8626367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8626367)) - Many applications are unsuccessful because, despite working internally as they should, their graphical interfaces are not **functional**, making end users reject them immediately. De nombreuses applications font chou blanc, bien qu'elles fonctionnent correctement de manière interne, car leurs interfaces graphiques ne sont pas pratiques, dissuadant aussitôt les utilisateurs. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LB and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4409849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4409849) [\#4434674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4434674)) - The roadmap will be updated regularly, and will evolve over time as we iterate on it based on feedback and usage in practise. It describes larger, multi-week cross-**functional** development we’re committed to. La feuille de route sera mise à jour régulièrement et évoluera au fil du temps à mesure que nous la réviserons en fonction des retours et de son utilisation pratique. Elle décrit des développements plus importants, pluridisciplinaires et s’étalant sur plusieurs semaines, auxquels nous nous engageons. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13211498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13211498) [\#13211501](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13211501)) ## 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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