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# testing — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: testing (52 196), testings (15). By style: everyday 13 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 1 130 · legal and administrative 15 079 · UN documents 35 980.

## essai

Used about 31 175 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 94 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 951 · UN documents ≈ 23 130). Forms: essai, essais.

- As we have said, nuclear **testing** is the best way of halting the further spread of nuclear weapons.
  Comme on l'a dit, arrêter les **essais** est la meilleure manière pour empêcher la diffusion plus large des armes nucléaires.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1623678)

- Appendix 3 Spray-**testing** method
  Appendice 3 Méthode d'**essai** par projection
  ([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 5457999)

- A.1.1. Steady-state discrete-mode **testing**
  A.1.1 **Essai** en conditions stationnaires à modes discrets
  ([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 22765211)

- I find it hard to welcome the idea that laboratory **testing** is to be allowed before the patent period has expired.
  Je ne puis me faire à l'idée que des **essais** de laboratoire avec des brevets protégés seraient possibles déjà avant l'expiration du brevet.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1591666)

- TEM cell **testing** according to ISO 11452-3;
  **Essai** en cellule TEM, conformément à la norme ISO 11452-3;
  ([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 5565926)

## tests

Used about 4 928 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 353 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 290 · UN documents ≈ 1 285).

- The **testing** procedure is inefficient.
  La procédure des **tests** est inefficace.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 128714)

- Report on **testing** farms or farming areas
  Rapport sur les fermes ou parcs soumis aux **tests**
  ([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 1663595)

- In that connection, she asked whether counselling and **testing** services were also free.
  À cet égard, elle demande si des services de conseils et les **tests** de dépistage sont gratuits également.
  ([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 15275911)

- Nor will there be any compulsory **testing** in this connection.
  Il n'y aura pas non plus de **tests** obligatoires à cet égard.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 889537)

- Known error for EAGF coming from the substantive **testings**
  Erreur connue dans le FEAGA résultant des **tests** de validation
  ([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 4207606)

## normes

Used about 274 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 274).

- virus **testing** procedures and virological standards; and
  les procédures de recherche des virus et les **normes** virologiques; et
  ([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 4997217)

## More sentences

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

- You're **testing** my patience!
  Tu mets ma patience à bout !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and arnxy20 · checked, community translation · [\#2839718](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2839718) [\#1488001](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1488001))

- A scientific theory is a hypothesis that has been proved by **testing**.
  Une théorie scientifique est une hypothèse qui a été prouvée par l'expérimentation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Chrikaru and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2128947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2128947) [\#2130328](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2130328))

- Further **testing** is required.
  Un examen plus poussé est requis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1620882](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1620882) [\#1623664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1623664))

## Grammar

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