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Forms: pourcentage, pourcentages. - Tom wants a better **percentage** of the profits. Tom veut un plus gros **pourcentage** du profit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and arnxy20 · checked, community translation · [\#2031370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2031370) [\#2765949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2765949)) - We have also changed the **percentages**. Nous avons aussi modifié les **pourcentages**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 708715) - The actual **percentage** is used. Utiliser le **pourcentage** mesuré. ([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 1048775) - **Percentage** received against obligation **Pourcentage** du montant dû ([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 17102670) - What **percentage** of our bodies is water? Quel **pourcentage** de notre corps est constitué d'eau ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4061382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4061382) [\#8954246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8954246)) ## taux Used about 4 734 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 52 · UN documents ≈ 4 682). - Turning to the bands and the **percentages** for resale rights, there are major differences in the Member States. Si nous examinons les tranches, les **taux** du droit de suite, nous constatons de grandes différences selon les États membres. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1702741) - (d) Number and **percentage** of dropouts and repetition d) Nombre et **taux** d ' abandons scolaires et de redoublements ([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 18829858) - The average corporation tax rate, for example, fell by a total of 15 **percentage** points across the old EU from the end of the 1980s onwards. Depuis la fin des années 80, le **taux** d’imposition moyen des entreprises, par exemple, a diminué d’un total de 15 points à travers l’ancienne UE. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 750168) - Activity rate, by sex and by nationality, 2000 (**percentages**) **Taux** d ' activité par sexe et par nationalité en 2000 Ensemble ([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 8994249) - The rapporteur has now quoted far higher **percentages**, but the fact is that ambient noise is a serious and a major environmental problem. Le rapporteur a déjà cité des **taux** nettement plus élevés, mais il est un fait que le bruit ambiant constitue un problème environnemental à la fois important et sérieux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 135699) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Since leaving London, what with travelling expenses, bribes, the purchase of the elephant, bails, and fines, Mr. Fogg had already spent more than five thousand pounds on the way, and the **percentage** of the sum recovered from the bank robber promised to the detectives, was rapidly diminishing. En effet, depuis qu'il avait quitté Londres, tant en frais de voyage qu'en primes, en achat d'éléphant, en cautions et en amendes, Phileas Fogg avait déjà semé plus de cinq mille livres (125 000 F) sur sa route, et le tant pour cent de la somme recouvrée, attribué aux détectives, allait diminuant toujours. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1139) - If we cannot afford to sacrifice a **percentage** of this wealth in order to protect defenceless animals, we cannot call ourselves civilised. Si nous ne pouvons pas nous permettre de sacrifier une fraction de cette richesse à la protection d'animaux sans défense, nous ne pouvons pas qualifier notre société de "civilisée". ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 863406) - On the one hand the cost of fuel as a **percentage** of the total earnings of a fisher can go up as high as to represent 50-60% of his total earnings. D'une part, la part du coût du carburant pour un pêcheur peut atteindre 50 à 60 % du total de ses revenus. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1098349) ## 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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