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# suitable — English to French

How English *suitable* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: suitable (34 185). By style: everyday 45 · literary 4 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 1 957 · legal and administrative 8 504 · UN documents 23 671.

## appropriés

Used about 4 847 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 326 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 063 · UN documents ≈ 3 452). Forms: approprié, appropriés.

- I'm not sure that's **suitable**.
  Je ne suis pas sûre que cela soit **approprié**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4999798](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4999798) [\#5912781](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5912781))

- The Union's priorities need a **suitable** level of funding.
  Les priorités de l'Union ont besoin d'un niveau de financement **approprié**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1524448)

- Inspectors shall be provided with **suitable** means of identification.
  Les inspecteurs sont pourvus de moyens d’identification **appropriés**.
  ([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 602240)

- 6.1.4.11.3 Boxes shall be securely assembled by means of **suitable** devices.
  6.1.4.11.3 Les caisses doivent être solidement assemblées par des moyens **appropriés**.
  ([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 7557283)

- Fill the blanks with **suitable** words.
  Remplissez les blancs par des mots **appropriés**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#278724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/278724) [\#478123](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/478123))

## More sentences

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

- Written in easy English, this book is **suitable** for beginners.
  Écrit dans un anglais facile, ce livre est convenable aux débutants.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Danquebec · checked, community translation · [\#30275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/30275) [\#1158916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1158916))

- This book is written in a rather simple English and is thus **suitable** for beginners.
  Ce livre est écrit en anglais très simple et convient donc aux débutants.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shadd and bourdu · checked, community translation · [\#1780166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1780166) [\#354410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/354410))

- These shoes are not **suitable** for running.
  Ces chaussures ne sont pas adaptées à la course.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#59580](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/59580) [\#7724995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7724995))

## 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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