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Forms: provisoire, provisoires. - I've got a **provisional** licence. J'ai un permis de conduire **provisoire**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#993256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/993256) [\#993654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/993654)) - “It comes from the **Provisional** Government.” Elle vient du gouvernement **provisoire**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25176) - Everything out there is really **provisional**. Tout là-bas est en réalité **provisoire**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 561414) - Adoption of **provisional** measures Adoption de mesures **provisoires** ([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 4653432) - **Provisional** agenda and annotations. Ordre du jour **provisoire** annoté. ([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 29965142) ## provisional Used about 36 087 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 36 087). - Item 1 of the **provisional** agenda Item 1 of the **provisional** agenda ([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 28603321) - \[item 3 of the **provisional** agenda\] \[item 3 of the **provisional** agenda\] ([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 9453582) - The **provisional** agenda for the session is contained in docu-ment E/1998/2\*. The **provisional** agenda for the session is contained in docu-ment E/1998/2\*. ([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 5282862) - The **provisional** annotated agenda and organization of work are contained in document E/ICEF/2002/9. The **provisional** annotated agenda and organization of work are contained in document E/ICEF/2002/9. ([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 9546621) - The **provisional** agenda, annotations, list of documents and work plan are contained in document DP/1997/L.3. The **provisional** agenda, annotations, list of documents and work plan are contained in document DP/1997/L.3. ([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 4206398) ## ordre Used about 6 561 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 6 561). - Item 2(b) of the **provisional** agenda point 2 b) de l ' **ordre** du jour ([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 16085400) - The **provisional** agenda for the meetings will be as follows: L ' **ordre** du jour des séances sera le suivant : ([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 10945680) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - In addition, this measure is only **provisional**. De plus, la mesure n'est que temporaire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 299629) - I hope that this suspension is **provisional** and that the talks are not reduced to ashes, but rather that a phoenix can rise from them – as the Commissioner has said. J’espère que cette suspension est temporaire, que les discussions ne sont pas réduites en cendres et qu’elles pourront renaître, telles un phénix, comme l’a dit le commissaire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 843275) - The summit will receive a **provisional** report on this issue, which will form the basis of the ad hoc declaration suggested by Russia. Le sommet examinera un rapport informel sur cette question, qui constituera la base pour la déclaration ad hoc suggérée par la partie russe. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 322478) ## 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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