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Ce n'est pas **pratique**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6817053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6817053) [\#6817972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6817972)) - He was giving up his search for any **practical** solution when the whistle of a steam-vessel coming into port seemed to blow him an answer by suggesting a scheme. Il désespérait de découvrir une solution **pratique**, quand le sifflet d'un vapeur entrant au port sembla lui jeter une réponse en lui suggérant une idée. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2036) - It all starts with **practical** realities. Tout commence par des réalités **pratiques**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1464992) - **Practical** operation of the crisis unit Fonctionnement **pratique** de la cellule de crise ([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 394219) - 6. The first was of a technical and **practical** nature. 6. La première est d ' ordre technique et **pratique**. ([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 4022379) ## concrètes Used about 11 184 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 099 · UN documents ≈ 10 085). - Allow me to mention two **practical** measures taken by the Commission. Permettez-moi de citer deux actions **concrètes** menées par la Commission: ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 758959) - (q) Consolidation of peace through **practical** disarmament measures q) Consolidation de la paix grâce à des mesures **concrètes** de désarmement ([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 8798503) - Commissioner, how do you intend to convince your fellow Commissioners of the urgent need for **practical** measures? Madame la Commissaire, comment comptez-vous convaincre vos collègues de l'urgence d'actions **concrètes** ? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 382334) - 5. **Practical** confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms 5. Mesures de confiance **concrètes** dans le domaine des armes classiques ([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 10953628) - The Commission is presenting you with a plan, a vision and a coherent and integrated set of **practical** and ambitious proposals. La Commission vous soumet un plan, une vision, un ensemble cohérent et intégré de propositions **concrètes** et ambitieuses. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 726277) ## mesures Used about 137 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 137). - The Council continues to urge the Albanian Government to give early and **practical** effect to these assurances and to expedite implementation of reform measures. Le Conseil continue à exhorter le gouvernement albanais à traduire rapidement et pratiquement ces assurances dans les faits, et à accélérer la mise en oeuvre des **mesures** de réforme. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1653692) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The president gave up the idea because it was not **practical**. Le président a abandonné cette idée parce qu'elle n'était pas réaliste. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#265373](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/265373) [\#7466344](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7466344)) - The Registered Nurse usually has more of an administrative role than the Licensed **Practical** Nurse. L'infirmier autorisé a généralement un rôle plus administratif que l'infirmier auxiliaire autorisé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9850805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9850805) [\#9986462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9986462)) - The president gave up the idea because it was not **practical**. Le président a renoncé à cette idée, car elle n'était pas réalisable. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#265373](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/265373) [\#7466351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7466351)) ## 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. 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