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# adapter — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: adaptaient (37), adaptait (38), adapte (1 221), adaptent (1 028), adapter (31 127), adaptes (1), adaptons (48), adapté (13 090), adaptée (12 141), adaptées (17 309), adaptés (17 815). By style: everyday 72 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 6 065 · legal and administrative 13 754 · UN documents 73 963.

## adapt

Used about 27 968 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 39 · parliamentary ≈ 2 078 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 477 · UN documents ≈ 20 374). Forms: adapt, adapted. Meaning: [adapt in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/adapt/).

- Il faut savoir s'**adapter**.
  You have to be able to **adapt**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11537757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11537757) [\#10120014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10120014))

- Alors, **adaptons**-nous.
  So let us **adapt**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 51486)

- Position du volant **adaptée**
  **Adapted** position of steering wheel
  ([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 3552368)

- **Adapté** de la Directive CE no 2001/95, art. 2, al. d
  **adapted** from 2001/95/EC, art 2 (d)
  ([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 20862978)

- Tu dois apprendre à t'**adapter**.
  You must learn to **adapt**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and maaster · checked, community translation · [\#6697369](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6697369) [\#6697980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6697980))

## appropriate

Used about 8 236 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 490 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 582 · UN documents ≈ 6 164). Meaning: [appropriate in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/appropriate/).

- Les listes noires ne sont pas du tout **adaptées** à une démocratie.
  Black lists are really not **appropriate** in a democracy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1074545)

- la publication des avis de vacance dans les médias **adaptés**,
  the publication of vacancy notices in the **appropriate** medias,
  ([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 2754965)

- Recherche et utilisation de technologies **adaptées**
  Researching and applying **appropriate** technologies
  ([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 27966446)

- L'amendement 3 n'est pas **adapté** pour être inclus dans ce texte.
  Amendment No 3 is not **appropriate** for inclusion in this text.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1627046)

- il est **adapté** à la nature et à l'ampleur des activités ferroviaires;
  **appropriate** to the organisation's character and extent of railway operations;
  ([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 4630057)

## needs

Used about 7 594 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 406 · UN documents ≈ 7 020).

- Des services et des dispositifs **adaptés** à des besoins changeants.
  Services and devices to match changing **needs**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1168120)

- Les instruments seront **adaptés** aux besoins personnels au cas par cas.
  Instruments will be adjusted according to individual **needs** on a case-by-case basis.
  ([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 5052058)

- Nous **adaptons** nos programmes aux besoins spécifiques des populations concernées.
  We tailor our programmes to specifically meet the **needs** of key populations.
  ([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 23493106)

- Cette proposition nous semble parfaitement **adaptée** à la demande de nombreux pays ACP, parmi lesquels, bien sûr, le Sénégal.
  This proposal seems to us fully to meet the **needs** of many ACP countries, including of course Senegal.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1737944)

- L’approche progressive peut être **adaptée** aux besoins de chaque État membre.
  The step-by-step approach can be tailored to the **needs** in each Member State.
  ([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 2781399)

## More sentences

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

- Nos yeux prennent du temps pour s'**adapter** au noir.
  Our eyes take time to adjust to the darkness.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and CK · checked, community translation · [\#23337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23337) [\#334371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/334371))

- L'intelligence est la capacité de s'**adapter** aux changements.
  Intelligence is the ability to adjust to changes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and tinowls · checked, community translation · [\#6091325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6091325) [\#6795264](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6795264))

- Il nous a fallu **adapter** nos vies aux nouvelles circonstances.
  We had to gear our lives to the new circumstances.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#269121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/269121) [\#3643588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3643588))

## 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/).

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