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Forms: suffisant, suffisante, suffisantes, suffisants. - My explanation was not **sufficient**. Mon explication n'était pas **suffisante**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#251313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251313) [\#130789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130789)) - A tattered mendicant, who could not collect any coins, lost as he was in the midst of the crowd, and who had not probably found **sufficient** indemnity in the pockets of his neighbors, had hit upon the idea of perching himself upon some conspicuous point, in order to attract looks and alms. Un mendiant déguenillé, qui ne pouvait faire recette, perdu qu'il était au milieu de la foule, et qui n'avait sans doute pas trouvé **suffisante** indemnité dans les poches de ses voisins, avait imaginé de se jucher sur quelque point en évidence, pour attirer les regards et les aumônes. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 357) - to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is **sufficient** for these things? aux uns, une odeur de mort, donnant la mort; aux autres, une odeur de vie, donnant la vie. Et qui est **suffisant** pour ces choses? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 2:16) - Probably something like 3 to 5 % of GDP would be **sufficient**. Probablement quelque chose comme 3 à 5 % du PIB serait **suffisant**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1784448) - **sufficient** financial means for departure from the Republic of Bulgaria; des moyens financiers **suffisants** pour quitter la République de Bulgarie; ([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 1054728) ## suffisamment Used about 9 943 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 043 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 233 · UN documents ≈ 5 663). - I haven't yet collected **sufficient** materials to write a book. Je n'ai pas encore réuni **suffisamment** de contenu pour écrire un livre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#10284752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10284752) [\#1856765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1856765)) - In other words, why have we failed to galvanise **sufficient** political will? Autrement dit, pourquoi ne sommes-nous pas parvenus à galvaniser **suffisamment** de volonté politique? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1303765) - the price offered in relation to either of the optional price calculations set out in Article 3 in **sufficient** detail to enable verification. le prix proposé obtenu en recourant à l'un des modes optionnels de calcul prévus à l'article 3, avec **suffisamment** de détails pour permettre une vérification. ([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 3985412) - The Pledging Conference has not been able, either globally or for individual organizations, to mobilize **sufficient** regular resources. La Conférence s ' est révélée incapable de mobiliser **suffisamment** de ressources ordinaires pour les organisations, collectivement ou individuellement. ([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 8614036) - I have not yet collected **sufficient** materials to write a book. Je n'ai pas encore réuni **suffisamment** de contenu pour écrire un livre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by emmettricks and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#1159257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1159257) [\#1856765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1856765)) ## suffit Used about 2 724 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 579 · legal and administrative ≈ 719 · UN documents ≈ 1 416). - Sometimes nodding is **sufficient** to indicate to a person that you're listening attentively to him or her. Parfois, hocher de la tête **suffit** à indiquer à quelqu'un que vous l'écoutez attentivement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7609938](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7609938) [\#8751181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8751181)) - How all-**sufficient** one finds it! Comme on trouve que cela **suffit**! ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31229) - This punishment which was inflicted by the many is **sufficient** for such a one; Il **suffit** pour cet homme du châtiment qui lui a été infligé par le plus grand nombre, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 2:6) - It is **sufficient** for you to say 'adopted' or 'rejected'. Il **suffit** que nous disions "adopté" ou "rejeté". ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1062981) - In case the suppression is initiated by the driver, an optical warning is **sufficient**. Si l'annulation est déclenchée par le conducteur, un signal visuel **suffit**. ([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 5581124) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - They're self-**sufficient**. Ils sont autosuffisants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1699343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1699343) [\#1704156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1704156)) - That would be **sufficient**. Cela suffirait. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by orcrist and littlejohn\_75 · checked, community translation · [\#43045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43045) [\#2791251](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2791251)) - They're self-**sufficient**. Elles sont autosuffisantes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1699343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1699343) [\#1704158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1704158)) ## 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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