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By style: everyday 4 · parliamentary 3 439 · legal and administrative 34 096 · UN documents 45 685. ## fonctionnement Used about 65 168 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 863 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 096 · UN documents ≈ 29 208). - Malware is software designed to disrupt, alter, or destroy logical elements essential to the proper **functioning** of a computer system. Un maliciel, ou logiciel malveillant, est un logiciel destiné à perturber, altérer ou détruire des éléments logiques indispensables au bon **fonctionnement** d’un système informatique. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13539002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13539002) [\#13539001](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13539001)) - Tax obstacles stand in the way of a fully **functioning** single market. Des obstacles fiscaux entravent la voie du bon **fonctionnement** du marché unique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 274729) - **Functioning** of the Executive Board **Fonctionnement** du conseil exécutif ([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 5137959) - The correct **functioning** of the control device. iii) le **fonctionnement** correct de l ' appareil de contrôle. ([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 17312408) - Where are the proposals for modernising the overall **functioning** of ports? Où sont les propositions visant à moderniser le **fonctionnement** global des ports? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 761097) ## financier Used about 1 498 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 498). - **FUNCTIONING** OF THE UNITED NATIONS ET **FINANCIER** DE L ' ORGANISATION DES NATIONS UNIES ([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 51397) - and financial **functioning** of the United Nations et **financier** de l ' Organisation des Nations Unies ([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 13062225) ## européenne Used about 143 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 143). - Parliament has put down a marker this week, making it clear that we want a less detailed, but better **functioning** EU. Le Parlement aura montré cette semaine que nous souhaitions une Union **européenne** qui soit réglementée moins en détail, mais qui fonctionne mieux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1915607) - . The European Union needs a properly **functioning** civil service, which is able to cope with the increased number of challenges and expectations. . - L’Union **européenne** requiert une administration fonctionnant correctement, à même de faire face au nombre accru de défis et d’attentes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 655754) ## union Used about 72 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 72). - Access to official documents by citizens of the Union is a hallmark of a responsible and fully **functioning** democracy. L'accès aux documents officiels pour les citoyens de l'**Union** est un point essentiel pour une démocratie responsable et digne de ce nom. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 123425) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The machine stopped **functioning**. La machine a cessé de fonctionner. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4502343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4502343) [\#6069210](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6069210)) - The hypothesis of some software capable of **functioning** as conscience can be completely ruled out. L'hypothèse d'un logiciel capable de fonctionner comme une conscience peut être totalement écartée. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10606981](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10606981) [\#10606983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10606983)) - The machine has stopped **functioning**. La machine a cessé de fonctionner. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4502342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4502342) [\#6069210](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6069210)) ## 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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