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# mandate — English to French

How English *mandate* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mandate (189 949), mandates (49 396). By style: everyday 3 · parliamentary 4 429 · legal and administrative 7 878 · UN documents 227 035.

## mandat

Used about 183 699 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 506 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 550 · UN documents ≈ 172 641). Forms: mandat, mandats.

- The church does not have the **mandate** to change the world. But if it fulfills its mission, it will change the world.
  L'église n'a pas le **mandat** de changer le monde. Si elle remplit pourtant sa mission, elle changera le monde.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by niceguydave and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2365003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2365003) [\#2367848](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2367848))

- The **mandates** are hereby ratified.
  Les **mandats** sont ratifiés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1044830)

- The **mandate** of NUGs is to:
  Les NUG ont pour **mandat**
  ([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 2062390)

- **Mandate**, scope and methodology
  **Mandat**, étendue des vérifications et méthode
  ([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 26771788)

- Rā issued the **mandate** to Thoth, that he should effect the triumph of Osiris against his adversaries, and the **mandate** is what Thoth hath executed.
  Rā a donné le **mandat** à Thoth, qu'il devrait effectuer le triomphe d'Osiris contre ses adversaires, et le mandat est ce que Thoth a exécuté.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and nonong · checked, community translation · [\#9503065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9503065) [\#10586003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10586003))

## conseil

Used about 7 187 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 92 · UN documents ≈ 7 095).

- My ambition is to pave the way to even more progress. I received a **mandate** for that at the European Council on 16 September.
  Mon ambition est d'ouvrir la voie à encore plus de progrès, comme me l'a demandé le **Conseil** européen du 16 septembre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1463215)

- He suggested that the Security Council should adopt more resolutions under Chapter VIII **mandates**.
  Il a proposé que le **Conseil** adopte plus de résolutions reposant sur le Chapitre VIII de la Charte.
  ([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 19490530)

- Your **mandate**, therefore, in our opinion, also consists in standing up to the Council and making sure that all the European institutions firmly adhere to that objective.
  Nous pensons donc qu’il vous incombe également de tenir tête au **Conseil** et de vous assurer que toutes les institutions européennes adhèrent fermement à cet objectif.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 645686)

- It is therefore incumbent upon the Security Council to **mandate** without delay an independent investigation into the Kafr Zita attacks.
  Pour cette raison, il incombe au **Conseil** de sécurité de dépêcher sans délai une mission d &apos; enquête indépendante sur les attaques de Kafr Zita.
  ([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 30158922)

- (a) Reduction of the time required to plan, rapidly deploy and establish peacekeeping and other operations in response to Security Council **mandates**
  a) Réduction du temps nécessaire pour planifier, déployer et mettre en place les opérations de maintien de la paix et les autres opérations approuvées par le **Conseil** de sécurité
  ([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 13127047)

## exécution

Used about 2 447 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 82 · UN documents ≈ 2 365).

- the recipient undertaking must actually have a public service **mandate** and the tasks and related obligations must be clearly defined;
  l'entreprise bénéficiaire a effectivement été chargée de l'**exécution** d'obligations de service public et ces obligations ont été clairement définies;
  ([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 3146605)

- However, they continued to be exposed to life-threatening risks in the discharge of their **mandates**.
  Ils continuent néanmoins d &apos; être exposés à des dangers mortels dans l &apos; **exécution** de leurs tâches.
  ([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 13294257)

## More sentences

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

- Company regulations **mandate** that workers wear safety glasses.
  Les règles de l'entreprise exigent que les employés portent des lunettes de sécurité.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and tras · checked, community translation · [\#7567953](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7567953) [\#7575572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7575572))

- We do not have a **mandate** in the Commission to do it.
  La Commission n'a aucune autorité en la matière.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1418641)

- Some people have reintroduced the subject of geographical competence: should its **mandate** be only inside the Member States or also outside them?
  Certaines personnes ont réintroduit la notion de compétence géographique: l’Agence doit-elle s’acquitter de sa mission uniquement au sein des États membres ou aussi à l’extérieur?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 681053)

## 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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