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Forms: investissement, investissements. - It's an **investment**. C'est un **investissement**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2249052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2249052) [\#2356320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2356320)) - This **investment** is necessary. Ces **investissements** sont nécessaires. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 149877) - Nature of the **investment** Nature de l'**investissement** ([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 1893817) - **Investment** ratio sub-Saharan Africa Taux d ' **investissement**, Afrique subsaharienne ([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 8782314) - It's a good **investment**. C'est un bon **investissement**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4500341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4500341) [\#11556269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11556269)) ## fonds Used about 1 722 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 135 · UN documents ≈ 1 586). - Since the approval of Directive 85/611, the **investment** funds sector has undergone lengthy development and it is now important to modernise the rules. Depuis l'approbation de la directive 85/611, le secteur des **fonds** de placement a connu une longue évolution et il importe à présent d'en moderniser les règles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 15437) - Although internalizing environmental costs will increase the funds available for **investment** in urban infrastructure, additional funds would still be required, at least in the short term. Même si l ' internalisation des coûts environnementaux libérera des ressources susceptibles d ' être investies dans les infrastructures urbaines, des **fonds** supplémentaires seront nécessaires, au moins à court terme. ([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 24811847) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - This **investment** is the opportunity of a lifetime. Ce placement est l'occasion d'une vie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#757819](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/757819) [\#799810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/799810)) - Stock **investments** do not always yield profit. Les placements en actions ne rapportent pas toujours de profit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#21198](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/21198) [\#12915420](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12915420)) - We are discussing the best **investment** of your six hundred thousand francs . . .” Nous parlons du meilleur placement à trouver pour tes six cent mille francs.... ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30464) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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