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Forms: entreprise, entreprises. - It's a completely pointless **undertaking**. C'est une **entreprise** complètement vaine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10524387](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10524387) [\#13257837](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13257837)) - It has been a huge **undertaking**, which this document draws to a close. Ce fut une énorme **entreprise** qui, avec ce document, touche à sa fin. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1178270) - Concessions awarded to an affiliated **undertaking** Concessions attribuées à une **entreprise** liée ([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 3190371) - (a) Better financial and tax control of **undertakings** in the sector; a) Intensification du contrôle fiscal et financier des **entreprises** du secteur; ([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 1880099) - Not only railway **undertakings**, others too should be able to do this. Pas uniquement les **entreprises** ferroviaires, les autres doivent également pouvoir. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 71476) ## engagement Used about 10 793 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 753 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 877 · UN documents ≈ 5 162). Forms: engagement, engagements. - I believe that there must be an **undertaking** in this regard. Je crois que sur ce point, un **engagement** doit être pris. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 396718) - Evaluation of **undertaking** offer Évaluation de l’offre d’**engagement** ([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 2806146) - Signature of an **undertaking** not to leave the district; − Signature d ' un **engagement** écrit de ne pas quitter le district; ([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 13391617) - Having given **undertakings**, it then left it to Parliament to deliver on them. Après avoir pris des **engagements**, le Conseil a laissé au Parlement le soin de les tenir. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 709930) - This applies irrespective of whether price **undertakings** are appropriate for the product. Cette règle s'applique indépendamment du fait que les **engagements** de prix conviennent au produit. ([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 954224) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were **undertaking**. Nous n’avions pas la moindre notion de ce que nous avions entrepris. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12184044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12184044) [\#12184045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12184045)) - They are **undertaking** a trip around the world in eighty days! Ils entreprennent un voyage autour du monde dans quatre-vingts jours ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13903570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13903570) [\#13903571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13903571)) - She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense strides; it was a hippopotamus **undertaking** the pursuit of a chamois. Elle essaya de le suivre, mais Marius marchait lestement et avec d'immenses enjambées; c'était un hippopotame entreprenant la poursuite d'un chamois. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15338) ## 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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