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Forms: achat, achats. - Where are my **purchases**? Où sont mes **achats** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#13634633](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13634633) [\#13634616](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13634616)) - The picture of the master, the painting by David which he had proposed that M. Leblanc should **purchase**, was nothing else, as the reader has divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at Montfermeil. Le tableau de maître, la peinture de David dont il avait proposé l'**achat** à M. Leblanc, n'était, le lecteur l'a deviné, autre chose que l'enseigne de sa gargote, peinte, on s'en souvient, par lui-même, seul débris qu'il eût conservé de son naufrage de Montfermeil. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17435) - Some of these **purchases** will be cross-border. Ces **achats** seront notamment transfrontaliers. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1584765) - Total **purchases** of goods and services Montant total des **achats** de biens et de services ([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 1275310) - (a) **Purchase** of vehicles a) **Achats** de véhicules ([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 8826865) ## acheter Used about 1 580 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 155 · legal and administrative ≈ 218 · UN documents ≈ 1 194). - Ziri couldn't **purchase** a gift. Ziri ne pouvait pas **acheter** un cadeau. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#11049952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11049952) [\#12185063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12185063)) - “Does Monsieur le Maire wish to **purchase** them or me?” --Est-ce que monsieur le maire veut me les **acheter**? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4937) - They can always **purchase** emission permits. Ils peuvent toujours **acheter** des permis de polluer. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 812055) - offers an opportunity to reach a significant audience, consisting of consumers who are already considering a travel **purchase**; donne la possibilité d'atteindre un public important, composé de consommateurs qui envisagent déjà d'**acheter** un voyage; ([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 4203947) - **Purchase** low-cost or medium-sized building plots; - **Acheter** des lotissements sociaux ou de taille moyenne; ([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 331462) ## biens Used about 109 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 109). - Moreover, Developers are obliged to **purchase** coffee and essential goods under the ADOA concluded between Starbucks Coffee BV and Developers. Les développeurs sont en outre obligés d'acheter du café et des **biens** essentiels dans le cadre de l'ADOA que Starbucks Coffee BV a conclu avec les développeurs. ([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 4159865) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Purchase** any necessary articles quickly. Achetez rapidement tout objet nécessaire ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nanioitte and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2172039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2172039) [\#2173338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2173338)) - People no longer **purchase** DVDs. On n'achète plus de DVD. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13494048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13494048) [\#13494044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13494044)) - Many Americans protested the **purchase** of Alaska. De nombreux Étasuniens protestèrent contre l'acquisition de l'Alaska. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#805280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805280) [\#989707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/989707)) ## 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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