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Forms: insuffisance, insuffisant, insuffisante, insuffisantes, insuffisants. - There's **insufficient** power. La tension est **insuffisante**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1453361](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1453361) [\#1453730](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1453730)) - He talked a long time about his age, his infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, and he wound up as follows: “That he had a brother”—(the prioress made a movement),—“a brother no longer young”—(a second movement on the part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),—“that, if he might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was broken and that he was **insufficient** for the work, he should be obliged, greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day.” Il parla longuement de son âge, de ses infirmités, de la surcharge des années comptant double désormais pour lui, des exigences croissantes du travail, de la grandeur du jardin, des nuits à passer, comme la dernière, par exemple, où il avait fallu mettre des paillassons sur les melonnières à cause de la lune, et il finit par aboutir à ceci: qu'il avait un frère,--(la prieure fit un mouvement)--un frère point jeune,--(second mouvement de la prieure, mais mouvement rassuré)--que, si on le voulait bien, ce frère pourrait venir loger avec lui et l'aider, qu'il était excellent jardinier, que la communauté en tirerait de bons services, meilleurs que les siens à lui;--que, autrement, si l'on n'admettait point son frère, comme, lui, l'aîné, il se sentait cassé, et **insuffisant** à la besogne, il serait, avec bien du regret, obligé de s'en aller;--et que son frère avait une petite fille qu'il amènerait avec lui, qui s'élèverait en Dieu dans la maison, et qui peut-être, qui sait? ferait une religieuse un jour. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11407) - The efforts being made are **insufficient**, however. Toutefois, les efforts consentis sont **insuffisants**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 723179) - **Insufficient** strength of parts. Résistance **insuffisante** des pièces. ([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 3209621) - :: **Insufficient** quantity and quality of seeds; **insuffisance** en quantité et qualité de semences ; ([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 8986598) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - There is **insufficient** light to take pictures. Il n'y a pas assez de lumière pour prendre des photos. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by edelyn90 and melospawn · checked, community translation · [\#265297](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/265297) [\#781924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/781924)) - There is **insufficient** light for reading. Ici il n'y a pas suffisamment de lumière pour lire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#280608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/280608) [\#1949741](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1949741)) - This is **insufficient**. Ce n'est pas suffisant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2233699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2233699) [\#1858255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1858255)) ## 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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