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Forms: action, actions. Meaning: [action in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/action/). - Passons à l'**action**. Let's take **action**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · [\#11759422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759422) [\#11759421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759421)) - Il dirigeait tout par une sorte d'**action** magnétique invisible et continuelle. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant magnetic **action**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8111) - Plan d'**action** de Stockholm (débat) Stockholm **Action** Plan (debate) ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1389147) - du coût admissible de l'**action** Of the eligible costs of the **action** ([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 3070386) - G. Suivi du Plan d ' **action** Follow-up to the **Action** Plan ([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 28039602) ## programme Used about 13 632 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 120 · legal and administrative ≈ 593 · UN documents ≈ 11 919). Meaning: [programme in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/programme/). - Le nouveau cadre permet de porter plus avant les **actions** déjà financées par le programme Grotius. The new framework regulation makes it possible to continue the projects already financed by the GROTIUS **programme**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 245307) - Il couvre également les coûts de l’évaluation visant à optimiser le programme des stages et les **actions** de communication et d’information. It also covers the costs of evaluation in order to optimise the **programme** of traineeships and communication and information campaigns. ([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 4778116) - 328. Le PROEIMCA a apporté son soutien au PRONEEAAH à travers les **actions** suivantes: 328. The **Programme** has supported the National Programme of Education for Indigenous Ethnic and Afro-Antillean Groups through the following measures: ([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 27753322) - Le programme a pour vocation de poursuivre les **actions** ÉCHO dans le cadre d'une stratégie de réhabilitation et de transition vers le développement. The **programme** is intended as a continuation of ECHO's activities in pursuing a strategy for rehabilitation and the transition to development. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 970824) - Les activités menées au titre des autres éléments du programme de travail du Comité contribuaient de façon notable à l ' application du programme **Action** 21. A significant contribution to the implementation of Agenda 21 was being made through the Committee’s other work **programme** elements. ([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 5105252) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Ils ont fait une bonne **action**. They've done a good deed. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · [\#11759449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759449) [\#11759446](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759446)) - La valeur de l'**action** de l'entreprise a bondi hier. The company's stock price jumped yesterday. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and CK · checked, community translation · [\#244360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244360) [\#1540241](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1540241)) - Pourquoi les Étasuniens mangent-ils de la dinde le jour d'**action** de grâce ? Why do Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#954659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/954659) [\#958565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/958565)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## 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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