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# mécanisme — French to English

How French *mécanisme* 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: mécanisme (152 342), mécanismes (183 877). By style: everyday 11 · parliamentary 9 012 · legal and administrative 17 355 · UN documents 309 841.

## mechanism

Used about 255 812 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 8 261 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 932 · UN documents ≈ 235 608). Forms: mechanism, mechanisms. Meaning: [mechanism in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mechanism/).

- Le **mécanisme** de fermeture s'est coincé.
  The locking **mechanism** has jammed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#662986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/662986) [\#809744](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809744))

- Désormais, nous avons des **mécanismes** de suivi.
  We now have monitoring **mechanisms**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 801101)

- le **Mécanisme** européen de stabilité;
  the European Stability **Mechanism**;
  ([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 2955046)

- A. **Mécanismes** de coopération
  A. Cooperative **Mechanisms** (COOP)
  ([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 10821650)

- Le **mécanisme** de verrouillage s'est bloqué.
  The locking **mechanism** has jammed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#662986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/662986) [\#809745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809745))

## existing

Used about 12 910 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 12 910).

- Les **mécanismes** actuels ne peuvent répondre à ces besoins pour deux raisons.
  **Existing** facilities do not meet these needs for two reasons.
  ([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 19767158)

- Comme dans le cas du mercure élémentaire, les **mécanismes** actuels de suivi des échanges commerciaux de produits contenant du mercure (tels que les piles) sont en général jugés inappropriés.
  **Existing** methods for tracking mercury trade (in products such as batteries), as in the case of elemental mercury, are generally considered to be inadequate.
  ([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 25185909)

- a) Comment les **mécanismes** existants du Fonds monétaire international pourraient être utiles aux États concernés pour atténuer les difficultés économiques particulières qu &apos; ils connaissent;
  (a) How the **existing** facilities of the International Monetary Fund might be helpful to the States concerned, with the view to alleviating their special economic problems;
  ([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 960266)

- c) Troc − formule analogue aux **mécanismes** du marché existants, mais les crédits pourraient être réglés par des moyens non monétaires (annulation de dettes, débouchés commerciaux, emploi, etc.);
  Barter transaction (similar to **existing** market approaches but credits could be paid by using currency other than money, e.g. debt cancellation, trading opportunities, employment, etc.);
  ([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 17525267)

## effective

Used about 181 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 181). Meaning: [effective in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/effective/).

- instaurer des dispositifs de signalement anonyme, semi-anonyme ou d'autres **mécanismes** de signalement efficaces,
  introducing possibilities for anonymous, or semi-anonymous, or other **effective** reporting facilities,
  ([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 4225869)

## More sentences

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

- J'ai rappelé moi-même les réserves que Tobin avait finalement par rapport à son propre **mécanisme**, notamment en termes de rendement.
  I myself pointed out the reservations which Tobin himself expressed, in the final analysis, regarding his own instrument, particularly in terms of revenue.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 106449)

- Il me semble évident que les conditions de l'application de ce **mécanisme** à la situation en Autriche ne sont pas réunies.
  I think that it is obvious that conditions have not been met which would apply to the current situation in Austria.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 11023)

- Troisièmement - et ceci est à relier avec le deuxième point -, dans de nombreux pays, aucun **mécanisme** de surveillance des sociétés de gestion collective n’est en place.
  Thirdly – and this is related to the second point – there is in many countries no supervision of collecting societies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 551569)

## Grammar

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