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# investments — English to French

How English *investments* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: investments (50 717). By style: everyday 8 · parliamentary 3 058 · legal and administrative 12 796 · UN documents 34 855.

## investissements

Used about 35 855 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 2 867 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 197 · UN documents ≈ 21 784).

- All **investments** involve risk.
  Tous les **investissements** induisent des risques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#5736074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5736074) [\#9426949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9426949))

- The country must also be in a position to make **investments**.
  Ce pays doit aussi pouvoir faire des **investissements**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1510628)

- **Investments** (in million EUR)
  **Investissements** (en millions d'EUR)
  ([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 4625942)

- (c) Advisory services in relation to **investments** or negotiations;
  c) Services consultatifs dans le domaine des **investissements** ou des négociations;
  ([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 1530656)

- Algeria welcomes foreign **investments**.
  L'Algérie accueille les **investissements** étrangers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10925664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10925664) [\#11838151](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11838151))

## placements

Used about 8 255 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 267 · UN documents ≈ 7 988).

- 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))

- Land and buildings are used in the calculation of the variable Total of **investments** (36 10 0).
  Les «terrains et constructions» interviennent dans le calcul du «total des **placements**» (36 10 0).
  ([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 1819248)

- CASH AND **INVESTMENTS** AS AT 1 JANUARY
  Encaisse et **placements** au 1er janvier
  ([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 14747561)

- **Investments** are held in the name of UNFPA.
  Des **placements** sont faits pour le compte du FNUAP.
  ([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 18199464)

- **Investments** are carried at cost.
  La valeur comptable enregistrée des **placements** est celle de leur coût.
  ([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 14736961)

## More sentences

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

- In the US there has been a ban on new **investments** since May 1997 because the situation in Burma has not changed.
  Les États-Unis ont interdit depuis mai 1997 tout nouvel investissement en Birmanie, la situation n'ayant pas changé dans ce pays.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1797879)

- In the case of the Netherlands, these **investments** concern the successor of the F16.
  Dans le cas des Pays-Bas, il s'agit du suivi des F-16.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 310417)

- In fact, to coin a phrase, the multilateral agreement on **investments** will change the world.
  En définitive, nous pouvons affirmer ceci: l'AMI changera le monde.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1816241)

## Grammar

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