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Forms: productif, productifs, production, productive, productives. - This is completely counter-**productive**. C'est absolument contre-**productif**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sicerabibax · checked, community translation · [\#5826891](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5826891) [\#6086516](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6086516)) - So we have to be **productive** on this. Nous devons donc nous montrer **productifs**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1533900) - Enjoy working/being **productive** Plaisir de travailler/d’être **productif** ([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 5293105) - Urban and **productive** integrated sustainable settlements in El Salvador Établissements urbains durables, intégrés et **productifs** en El Salvador ([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 20679161) - You are really very **productive** today. Tu es vraiment très **productif** aujourd'hui. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jjbraam and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#1966668](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1966668) [\#1967902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1967902)) ## investissements Used about 17 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 17). - Under this measure, companies benefited from loans at preferential rates for innovative **productive** investments. Dans le cadre de cette mesure, les entreprises bénéficiaient de prêts à des taux préférentiels pour des **investissements** encourageant l’innovation dans les processus de production. ([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 1686543) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The year she spent in Germany was incredibly **productive**. Son séjour d'un an en Allemagne fut très fructueux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#13826196](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13826196) [\#924950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/924950)) - During this colloquy, which always is **productive** of a delay of from one to two minutes, some one, a stranger, came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. Pendant ce colloque, qui produit toujours un temps d'arrêt d'une ou deux minutes, quelqu'un, un inconnu, vint se placer derrière le corbillard à côté de Fauchelevent. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11983) - Their **productive** capacity is an increasingly important factor for economic growth and must be considered as such. Leur capacité de travail est un facteur de plus en plus déterminant de croissance économique et doit donc être prise en compte en tant que telle. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1775475) ## 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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