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# mechanism — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: mechanism (133 797), mechanisms (168 427). By style: everyday 13 · parliamentary 8 621 · legal and administrative 14 820 · UN documents 278 770.

## mécanisme

Used about 256 402 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 7 903 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 276 · UN documents ≈ 235 212). Forms: mécanisme, mécanismes.

- The locking **mechanism** has jammed.
  Le **mécanisme** de fermeture s'est coincé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#662986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/662986) [\#809744](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809744))

- This monitoring **mechanism** serves a double purpose.
  Ce **mécanisme** de surveillance a un double objectif.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1949514)

- Develop **mechanisms** for a social dialogue.
  Instaurer des **mécanismes** de dialogue social.
  ([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 1356164)

- FINANCIAL **MECHANISM** OF THE CONVENTION
  **Mécanisme** financier de la Convention
  ([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 2031458)

- The locking **mechanism** has jammed.
  Le **mécanisme** de verrouillage s'est bloqué.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#662986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/662986) [\#809745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809745))

## place

Used about 5 808 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 5 808).

- Surveys of intergovernmental bodies will be conducted on a regular basis in future as part of the performance measurement **mechanism** of the Department.
  À l &apos; avenir, des enquêtes auprès des organes intergouvernementaux seront menées régulièrement dans le cadre du système d &apos; évaluation des résultats mis en **place** par le Département.
  ([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 10006591)

- 69. UNIFEM plays an active role in **mechanisms** established at headquarters to promote coordination and collaboration as a follow-up to United Nations world conferences.
  UNIFEM participe activement aux travaux des dispositifs mis en **place** au siège en vue de promouvoir la coordination et la collaboration dans le suivi des conférences mondiales des Nations Unies.
  ([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 4509544)

## contrôle

Used about 244 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 90 · legal and administrative ≈ 154).

- Naturally - and this has been emphasised several times this evening - it will be necessary to introduce appropriate verification **mechanisms**.
  Évidemment, et cela a été dit à maintes reprises aujourd'hui, il est nécessaire de prévoir des mesures de **contrôle** pertinentes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1958934)

- The competent authorities of the home Member State shall require every reinsurance undertaking to have sound administrative and accounting procedures and adequate internal control **mechanisms**.
  Les autorités compétentes de l'État membre d'origine exigent que toute entreprise de réassurance dispose d'une bonne organisation administrative et comptable et de procédures de **contrôle** interne adéquates.
  ([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 612073)

## More sentences

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

- We will implement a reconsidered North-South cooperation **mechanism**.
  Nous mettrons en œuvre un dispositif de coopération Nord Sud repensé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by witbrock and sciuro · checked, community translation · [\#430092](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/430092) [\#429951](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/429951))

- We don't have a **mechanism** for sustained funding.
  Nous ne disposons pas de moyens de financement pérennes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by witbrock and sciuro · checked, community translation · [\#430082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/430082) [\#429966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/429966))

- In terms of positive influence, there is a stronger effect than there would be without the **mechanism** of budget support.
  C'est autrement plus fort en termes d'influence positive que lorsque vous ne faites pas d'aide budgétaire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1052587)

## 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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