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# improvement — English to French

How English *improvement* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: improvement (71 953), improvements (38 781). By style: everyday 38 · literary 2 · parliamentary 7 904 · legal and administrative 6 362 · UN documents 96 428.

## amélioration

Used about 88 270 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 6 340 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 567 · UN documents ≈ 76 339). Forms: amélioration, améliorations, améliorer.

- That's an **improvement**.
  C'est une **amélioration**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#2251054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251054) [\#5319702](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5319702))

- In the first place, there is one **improvement** which these gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison contractors from wronging poor people.
  D'abord il y a une **amélioration** que ces messieurs de la police devraient bien faire, ce serait d'empêcher les entrepreneurs des prisons de faire du tort aux pauvres gens.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4328)

- That too is a vast **improvement**.
  C’est aussi une **amélioration** significative.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 532305)

- **improvement** of product quality;
  l'**amélioration** de la qualité des produits;
  ([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 1293442)

- **Improvements** to Force shelters
  **Amélioration** des abris de la Force
  ([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 5603019)

## More sentences

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

- There's still plenty of room for **improvement**.
  Il reste encore beaucoup de chemin à faire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2703262](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2703262) [\#12921585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12921585))

- A number of **improvement** notices have been issued to eateries for flouting hygiene regulations.
  Un certain nombre d'avertissements ont été publiés en direction des restaurants qui font fi des règlementations en matière d'hygiène.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3354435](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3354435) [\#3423042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3423042))

- Chris was confident that Beth would be delighted with his **improvement**.
  Chris était sûr que Beth serait enchantée de son progrès.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and dominiko · checked, community translation · [\#62821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/62821) [\#11077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11077))

## 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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