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# améliorer — French to English

How French *améliorer* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: amélioraient (215), améliorait (395), améliore (6 349), améliorent (4 005), améliorer (280 415), améliorez (12), améliorons (146), amélioré (14 023), améliorée (13 946), améliorées (7 407), améliorés (5 903). By style: everyday 269 · literary 2 · parliamentary 19 760 · legal and administrative 15 246 · UN documents 297 539.

## improved

Used about 229 083 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 175 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 14 542 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 111 · UN documents ≈ 202 253). Forms: improve, improved, improves, improving.

- Ça peut être **amélioré**.
  It can be **improved**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Thomz and CM · checked, community translation · [\#5757479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5757479) [\#5761555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5761555))

- Convenons-en, comme, à tout prendre, le balayage est un hommage que l'égout rend à la civilisation, et comme, à ce point de vue, la conscience de Tartuffe est un progrès sur l'étable d'Augias, il est certain que l'égout de Paris s'est **amélioré**.
  Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, Tartuffe’s conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is certain that the sewers of Paris have been **improved**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27503)

- Il doit être **amélioré**.
  This must be **improved**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2011756)

- les techniques d’évaluation s’**améliorent**;
  valuation techniques **improve**; or
  ([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 2743723)

- Depuis, la situation s &apos; est **améliorée**.
  The situation has since **improved**.
  ([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 29888094)

## quality

Used about 8 266 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 145 · legal and administrative ≈ 129 · UN documents ≈ 7 992). Meaning: [quality in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/quality/).

- Leurs propositions d'amendements **améliorent** la qualité globale du projet.
  Thanks to their amendment proposal the entire draft is of a higher **quality**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1218268)

- Des études récentes \[3\] montrent que l’addition d’eau **améliore** la qualité de la combustion en ce qui concerne les émissions.
  Recent studies \[3\] show that adding water to fuels leads to higher **quality** of combustion in terms of emissions.
  ([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 1143706)

- La qualité des satellites civils de télédétection a été **améliorée** considérablement.
  44. Considerable improvement has been achieved in the **quality** of civil remote sensing satellites.
  ([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 4466243)

- Nous savons également que les coûts diminuent à mesure que nous **améliorons** la qualité des décisions en premier recours.
  We also know that the costs decrease when we increase the **quality** of the first instance decisions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1479001)

- Plusieurs parties ont fait remarquer que le savoir-faire des producteurs russes et chinois de même que la qualité de leurs produits s’**amélioraient** constamment et que l’institution des droits antidumping définitifs accélérerait le processus, car elle encouragerait le déplacement de la production de produits finis et semi-finis vers ces pays où le PTFE granulaire est disponible à des prix moins élevés.
  A number of parties observed that the know-how of Russian and Chinese producers as well as the **quality** of their products is constantly increasing and that the imposition of definitive anti-dumping duties would accelerate this process because it would create an incentive for shifting the production of semi-finished and finished products to these countries where the granular PTFE was available at cheaper prices.
  ([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 754637)

## better

Used about 5 000 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 66 · parliamentary ≈ 1 160 · legal and administrative ≈ 86 · UN documents ≈ 3 689). Meaning: [better in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/better/).

- Il s'est **amélioré**.
  It's gotten **better**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#435784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/435784) [\#4961566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4961566))

- Je pense que cela ne pourra qu'**améliorer** les résultats.
  I think this will result in a **better** outcome.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1447073)

- **Améliorer** la gouvernance climatique et l’information à tous les niveaux
  **Better** climate governance and information at all levels
  ([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 3445017)

- De mon point de vue, les choses se sont **améliorées**.
  From my perspective, things have gotten **better**.
  ([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 23476549)

- Ça s'est **amélioré**.
  It's gotten **better**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#435784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/435784) [\#4961564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4961564))

## situation

Used about 3 305 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 145 · legal and administrative ≈ 86 · UN documents ≈ 3 074). Meaning: [situation in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/situation/).

- Il ne sera question de ce dernier que lorsque la situation juridique en Ouzbékistan se sera considérablement **améliorée**.
  The latter will only be considered when considerable improvements have been made to the legal **situation** in Uzbekistan.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1794606)

- Bien que la situation économique de l’industrie de l’Union se soit **améliorée**, elle est cependant restée précaire au cours de la période considérée.
  Even though there was an improvement of the economic **situation** of the Union industry, it thus remained in a precarious situation during the period considered.
  ([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 2082638)

- La situation politique ne s &apos; est pas **améliorée** sensiblement.
  3. The political **situation** showed no marked progress.
  ([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 14171156)

- La précarité actuelle de l'emploi (comme le rappelait l'un des amendements) et les réductions des dépenses publiques ne contribuent pas à **améliorer** la situation.
  The current precariousness of employment - as is stated in one of the amendments - and public spending cuts do nothing to help the **situation**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1730532)

- La Commission estime que la marge de 400 points de base est appropriée, compte tenu du niveau élevé de sûretés réelles associées à l’emprunt (voir considérant 17), qui **améliorait** la probabilité pour l’organisme prêteur de récupérer au moins une partie de la somme prêtée, malgré les grandes difficultés de BPP.
  The Commission considers the spread of 400 basis points to be appropriate given the high collateralisation of the loan (see recital 17), which increased the likelihood that the lender would be able to recover at least part of the loan notwithstanding the very distressed **situation** of BPP.
  ([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 2260796)

## More sentences

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

- Il est toujours possible de s'**améliorer**.
  There's always room for improvement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5137595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5137595) [\#12918719](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12918719))

- L'Académie kabyle s'engage à contribuer à **améliorer** la culture scientifique et littéraire du peuple kabyle.
  The Kabyle Academy is committed to contributing to the improvement of the scientific and literary culture of the Kabyle people.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#11103662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11103662) [\#11103653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11103653))

- Je commence à m'**améliorer**.
  I'm getting the hang of this.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1324120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1324120) [\#1326678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1326678))

## 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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