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# sustainability — English to French

How English *sustainability* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: sustainabilities (1), sustainability (38 871). By style: everyday 2 · parliamentary 2 284 · legal and administrative 2 478 · UN documents 34 108.

## durabilité

Used about 17 916 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 903 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 394 · UN documents ≈ 14 618). Forms: durabilité, durable.

- “In recent years we've noticed that the artists in our shows have been working with more renewable materials and methods that are environmentally safe,” said JoAnn Symons, president of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee. “So we’ve decided we would reward those efforts by offering the **Sustainability** Award every year in our show.”
  « Ces dernières années, nous avons remarqué que les artistes qui participent à nos évènements emploient davantage de matériaux renouvelables et de méthodes respectueuses de l'environnement, » a déclaré JoAnn Symons, présidente du Smithsonian Women's Committee. « Ainsi, nous avons décidé de récompenser ces efforts en décernant chaque année le prix de la **durabilité** lors de notre exposition. »
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#8229700](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8229700) [\#8986353](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8986353))

- The most difficult area has been the **sustainability** criteria.
  L'aspect le plus difficile a été le critère de **durabilité**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1175095)

- Review of **Sustainability** Impact
  Examen de l'impact sur le développement **durable**
  ([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 336322)

- Key messages on **sustainability** issues
  Messages essentiels concernant les questions de **durabilité**
  ([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 28406094)

- What, then, of global social and economic **sustainability**?
  Qu' en est-il de cette **durabilité** sociale et économique du monde ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 294172)

## viabilité

Used about 9 902 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 286 · legal and administrative ≈ 568 · UN documents ≈ 9 049).

- All this will have to be considered in the future in the context of **sustainability** and effective spending.
  Il faudra nous pencher sur tout ceci à l'avenir en vue de garantir la **viabilité** du budget et l'efficacité des dépenses.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1348232)

- Ensure the financial **sustainability** of the magistrates' school.
  Garantir la **viabilité** financière de l'École de la magistrature.
  ([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 1355915)

- Long-term **sustainability** of outer space activities
  **Viabilité** à long terme des activités spatiales
  ([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 25590477)

- in writing. - (DE) I am voting in favour of the performance and **sustainability** of the European aviation system.
  par écrit. - (DE) Je vote pour le système d'amélioration des performances et de la **viabilité** du système aéronautique européen.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1239012)

- Stresses that more emphasis should be given to the **sustainability** of aid;
  souligne qu’il y a lieu de mettre davantage l’accent sur la **viabilité** de l’aide;
  ([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 2759461)

## dette

Used about 2 191 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 103 · UN documents ≈ 2 088).

- On 22 June 2018, the Eurogroup politically agreed to implement additional measures to ensure debt **sustainability**.
  Le 22 juin 2018, l'Eurogroupe s'est mis d'accord au niveau politique sur la mise en œuvre de mesures supplémentaires visant à garantir la soutenabilité de la **dette**.
  ([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 4528035)

- (c) External debt **sustainability** and development (continued) (A/C.2/69/L.4/Rev.1)
  c) Soutenabilité de la **dette** extérieure et développement (suite) (A/C.2/69/L.4/Rev.1)
  ([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 29057712)

- Any possible bank sector support measures should aim at limiting the fiscal impact to the minimum possible to ensure debt **sustainability**.
  Toute mesure éventuelle de soutien au secteur bancaire devrait viser à limiter autant que possible l'incidence budgétaire pour assurer la soutenabilité de la **dette**.
  ([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 4176374)

- II. Remarkable progress has been made in meeting education targets, gender empowerment, combating HIV/AIDS and debt **sustainability** 2
  Des progrès remarquables ont été réalisés en ce qui concerne l &apos; éducation, l &apos; autonomisation des femmes, la lutte contre le VIH/sida et la soutenabilité de la **dette** 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 24765657)

- Migration, therefore, cannot be separated from issues of market access, trade imbalances, debt **sustainability**, unemployment, poverty and inequalities.
  La migration est donc indissociable des questions de l &apos; accès aux marchés, des déséquilibres commerciaux, du niveau tolérable de la **dette**, du chômage, de la pauvreté et des inégalités.
  ([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 14826669)

## More sentences

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

- Bicycles are tools for urban **sustainability**.
  Les bicyclettes sont un outil pour la préservation de l'environnement urbain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by steverules123 and le\_petit\_ane\_gris · checked, community translation · [\#1734](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1734) [\#3554](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3554))

- When drafting the 2011 budget, however, we will have to set out the new formula carefully, in order to ensure the **sustainability** of the budget in the subsequent period.
  Lorsque nous élaborerons le budget 2011, il nous faudra toutefois étudier avec soin la nouvelle formule, en vue de veiller à la stabilité budgétaire pour la prochaine période.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1348192)

- Of these, I wish to highlight the need to ensure the **sustainability** of fish stocks and the activities of fishing communities in these regions.
  Parmi ceux-ci, j’aimerais souligner le besoin d’assurer la sauvegarde à long terme des ressources halieutiques et des activités des communautés de pêcheurs dans ces régions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 718719)

## Grammar

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