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Forms: volontaire, volontaires. - That company aims to reduce employee numbers by arranging a lot of retirement money for **voluntary** redundancies. Cette entreprise cherche à réduire le nombre de ses employés en mettant à disposition beaucoup d'argent pour les départs **volontaires**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#502806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/502806) [\#548640](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/548640)) - He had not known either the one or the other, and a sort of **voluntary** night had obscured his eyes. Il n'avait connu ni l'un ni l'autre, et il avait eu une sorte de nuit **volontaire** sur les yeux. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13585) - But what does **voluntary** mean? Mais qu'est-ce qui est **volontaire** ? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 199293) - To be analysed on **voluntary** basis in 2013. À analyser sur une base **volontaire** en 2013. ([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 2665064) - 21. **Voluntary** contributions in kind Contributions **volontaires** en nature ([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 1565583) ## fonds Used about 1 785 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 785). - Towards an enhanced financial mechanism for assistance in mine action: the revision of the terms of reference of the **Voluntary** Trust Fund F. Vers un renforcement du mécanisme de financement de l ' assistance à la lutte antimines: révision du mandat du **Fonds** d ' affectation spéciale ([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 25583303) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - That organization depends on **voluntary** contributions. Cette organisation dépend des bénévoles. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and superbolo · checked, community translation · [\#45639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/45639) [\#139635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/139635)) - Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and **voluntary** reduction in wants. This alone can promote real happiness and contentment. La civilisation, au sens réel du terme, ne consiste pas à multiplier les besoins, mais à les réduire délibérément, volontairement. Cela seul amène le vrai bonheur, le véritable contentement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5199239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5199239) [\#5199249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5199249)) - She did a lot of **voluntary** work for the Red Cross. Elle a fait beaucoup de bénévolat pour la Croix Rouge. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Romira · checked, community translation · [\#315433](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/315433) [\#182140](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/182140)) ## 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. 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