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C'est **insuffisant**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2187216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2187216) [\#2190303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2190303)) - That is very **inadequate**, but how can they do better? C'est très **insuffisant**, mais comment faire mieux? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1815706) - **Inadequate** check of SMR1, SMR3, SMR5 and MRFF, farmers without animals, CY 2012 Contrôle **insuffisant** des ERMG 1, ERMG 3, ERMG 5 et MRFF, agriculteurs sans animaux, année de demande 2012 ([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 4149156) - Excessive workdays, **inadequate** salary: Temps de travail excessif, salaire **insuffisant**: ([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 10507140) - Next, the actual content of the Charter is ambiguous and **inadequate** on some counts. D'autre part, le contenu actuel est, sur certains points, ambigu et **insuffisant**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 115638) ## inadéquat Used about 1 315 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 186 · legal and administrative ≈ 61 · UN documents ≈ 1 068). - Unfortunately, the EU's legislative framework on media pluralism and media concentration is still **inadequate**. Malheureusement, le cadre législatif de l'UE sur le pluralisme des médias et la concentration des médias est encore **inadéquat**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1294051) - Missing, incorrect or **inadequate** De-icing/Anti-icing treatment. Traitement dégivrant/antigivrant manquant, incorrect ou **inadéquat**. ([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 3647227) - An **inadequate** system of issuing land titles and building permits; c) Système **inadéquat** de délivrance de titres de propriété et de permis de construire; ([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 10853886) - Finally, every year I am obliged to draw attention to the fact that the financing of our foreign policy objectives is **inadequate**. Enfin, chaque année, je suis obligé d'attirer l'attention sur le fait que le financement de nos objectifs en matière de politique étrangère est **inadéquat**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1184199) - Therefore, they considered the resulting calculation to be not valid and **inadequate** and that it distorts the dumping calculation. Par conséquent, ils ont considéré que le calcul en résultant était non valable, **inadéquat** et qu’il faussait le calcul du dumping. ([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 5249855) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Algeria had **inadequate** infrastructure. L'Algérie avait de mauvaises infrastructures. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#10109681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10109681) [\#12481969](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12481969)) - I just feel a little **inadequate**. Je me sens juste pas à ma place. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#5666376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5666376) [\#5666560](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5666560)) - That's woefully **inadequate**. C'est pas du tout à la hauteur. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1494596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1494596) [\#1494948](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1494948)) ## 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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