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# reform — English to French

How English *reform* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [reform in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/reform/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: reform (150 758), reforms (52 074). By style: everyday 24 · literary 2 · parliamentary 21 541 · legal and administrative 4 971 · UN documents 176 294.

## réforme

Used about 171 950 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 18 624 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 557 · UN documents ≈ 148 748). Forms: réforme, réformes.

- Algeria needs economic **reforms**.
  L'Algérie a besoin de **réformes** politiques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#7863215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7863215) [\#12494961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12494961))

- Is this a genuine **reform**?
  S' agit-il d' une vraie **réforme** ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 251388)

- Support for policy **reform**
  Soutien à la **réforme** des politiques
  ([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 3059172)

- “Implementation of the **Reform**
  &quot; Application de la **réforme**
  ([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 6402683)

- Algeria needs economic **reform**.
  L'Algérie a besoin de **réformes** économiques.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#10134157](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10134157) [\#12494971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12494971))

## nous

Used about 5 958 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 449 · UN documents ≈ 5 509).

- Furthermore, we also need to expand the number of members elected to the Security Council and then **reform** the Agencies to make them more operational on the ground.
  En outre, **nous** devons aussi étendre le nombre de membres élus au Conseil de sécurité et ensuite réformer les agences afin de les rendre plus opérationnelles sur le terrain.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 554563)

- In my view, therefore, we may wait a while before, once again, attempting a **reform** of the Conference &apos; s procedures.
  J &apos; estime donc que **nous** pouvons attendre encore avant de tenter à nouveau de réformer les procédures de la Conférence.
  ([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 8967060)

- Having said this, we can only say that the situation in which we find ourselves today reveals yet again the total inadequacy of the treaty **reform** procedure.
  Ceci étant dit, force est de constater que la situation dans laquelle **nous** sommes actuellement illustre bien le caractère totalement inapproprié de la procédure du traité modificatif.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1263276)

- We think it is time to move to a more definitive phase in the current efforts to **reform** the Security Council.
  **Nous** estimons que le moment est venu de passer à une phase plus probante dans les efforts actuellement menés en vue de réformer le Conseil de sécurité.
  ([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 5832623)

- Either we solve our **reform** problems now and come out of our introspective shell, or the United Nations will lose political standing — that is what would happen.
  Soit **nous** réglons nos problèmes maintenant et sortons de notre coquille, soit l &apos; Organisation des Nations Unies perd son prestige politique. Cela est inévitable.
  ([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 3534467)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- These boys ought to be sent to a **reform** school.
  Ces garçons devraient être envoyés en maison de correction.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#2959095](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2959095) [\#14033107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14033107))

- Algeria needs to **reform** its economy.
  L'Algérie a besoin de réformer son économie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8328564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8328564) [\#10925561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10925561))

- These boys ought to be sent to a **reform** school.
  Ces garçons devraient être envoyés en maison de redressement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#2959095](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2959095) [\#14033104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14033104))

## 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/).

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