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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by curtisdavid and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#1055125](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1055125) [\#3794279](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3794279)) - The Commission **undertakes** to take into account the spirit of Amendment No 5. La Commission s’**engage** à tenir compte de l’esprit de l’amendement 5. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 573320) - In this respect the requesting Member State hereby **undertakes** À cet égard, l'État membre qui fait la demande s'**engage** à: ([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 3104326) - In pursuing the objective of the Act, the regional administration **undertakes** to: Pour atteindre cet objectif, l ' administration régionale s ' **engage** à : ([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 10398049) - The Commission **undertakes** that in five years' time it will report back to you on these changes. La Commission s'**engage** à vous rendre compte de l'effet de ces changements dans un délai de cinq ans. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1183443) ## entreprendre Used about 7 180 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 179 · legal and administrative ≈ 280 · UN documents ≈ 6 719). - Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to “**undertake** Paris.” Depuis, il avait tout quitté pour «**entreprendre** Paris». ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15689) - We need to **undertake** the necessary institutional improvements and changes. Nous devons **entreprendre** les nécessaires améliorations et modifications institutionnelles. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 895138) - **undertake** an investigation or prosecution of specific acts; d’**entreprendre** une enquête ou des poursuites sur des faits précis; ([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 1678545) - Capacity of national Governments to **undertake** social policies Capacité des gouvernements nationaux à **entreprendre** des politiques sociales ([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 11361723) - There are not a few in the scientific world who envy my success, and many would be ready to **undertake** this enterprise, to whom our return should be the first news of it." Je ne manque pas d'envieux dans le monde des savants, et beaucoup voudraient **entreprendre** ce voyage, qui ne s'en douteront qu'à notre retour. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 429) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met, Upon agreement from us to his liking, Will **undertake** to woo curst Katharine. Voici un monsieur que j'ai rencontré par hasard et qui accepte de courtiser la détestable Catarina. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10300140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10300140) [\#10300154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10300154)) - He always shows great determination in everything he **undertakes**. Il fait toujours preuve d'une grande détermination dans tout ce qu'il entreprend. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2266039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2266039) [\#12180719](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12180719)) - In order to be able to **undertake** it, however, further significant investment is needed. Pour pouvoir le réaliser, cependant, de nouveaux investissements substantiels sont nécessaires. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 872755) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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