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# pacte — French to English

How French *pacte* 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: pacte (148 666), pactes (6 305). By style: everyday 7 · literary 2 · biblical 7 · parliamentary 5 332 · legal and administrative 887 · UN documents 148 736.

## covenant

Used about 132 102 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 278 · legal and administrative ≈ 122 · UN documents ≈ 131 693). Forms: covenant, covenants. Meaning: [covenant in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/covenant/).

- Le Seigneur répondit : Certes, Sara, ton épouse, te donnera un fils, et tu le nommeras Isaac. Je maintiendrai mon **pacte** avec lui, comme **pacte** perpétuel à l’égard de sa descendance.
  And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my **covenant** with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#7853978](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7853978) [\#8589764](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8589764))

- J’avais fait un **pacte** avec mes yeux, Et je n’aurais pas arrêté mes regards sur une vierge.
  “I made a **covenant** with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 31:1)

- Roosevelt avait 25 ans d'avance sur les **pactes** de l'ONU de 1996.
  Roosevelt was 25 years ahead of the 1966 UN **covenants**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1700093)

- **PACTES**, CONVENTIONS ET PROTOCOLES VISÉS À L'ARTICLE 3, POINT C)
  **COVENANTS**, CONVENTIONS AND PROTOCOLS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3(C)
  ([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 3440170)

- Article du **Pacte**: 14 (par. 5)
  Article of the **Covenant**: 14, paragraph 5
  ([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 16406616)

## pact

Used about 8 308 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 832 · legal and administrative ≈ 377 · UN documents ≈ 3 099). Forms: pact, pacts. Meaning: [pact in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pact/).

- Faisons un **pacte**.
  Let's make a **pact**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2007814](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2007814) [\#12853646](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12853646))

- Le **pacte** est trop rigide.
  The **Pact** is too rigid.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 530344)

- SANCTIONS DANS LE CADRE DU VOLET PRÉVENTIF DU **PACTE** DE STABILITÉ ET DE CROISSANCE
  SANCTIONS IN THE PREVENTIVE PART OF THE STABILITY AND GROWTH **PACT**
  ([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 2452716)

- Pourtant les **pactes** nationaux tripartites ne font pas partie des caractéristiques des relations industrielles allemandes.
  However, national tripartite **pacts** are not a characteristic of industrial relations in Germany.
  ([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 26197988)

- Le Koweït a signé les deux **pactes**.
  Both **pacts** have been signed by Kuwait.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2050370)

## rights

Used about 1 598 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 49 · UN documents ≈ 1 549).

- la structure de l'actionnariat du candidat acquéreur, avec l'identité de tous les actionnaires exerçant une influence notable et leurs pourcentages respectifs du capital et des droits de vote, y compris des informations sur les **pactes** d'actionnaires éventuels;
  the shareholding structure of the proposed acquirer, with the identity of all shareholders exerting significant influence and their respective share of capital and voting **rights** including information on any shareholders agreements;
  ([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 4407581)

- ETAT DES **PACTES** INTERNATIONAUX RELATIFS AUX DROITS DE L &apos; HOMME
  STATUS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENANTS ON HUMAN **RIGHTS**
  ([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 5172155)

- En vue de faciliter l'acceptation dans les États membres de droits successoraux acquis du fait d'un **pacte** successoral, il convient que le présent règlement détermine quelle loi doit régir la recevabilité de tels **pactes**, leur validité au fond et leurs effets contraignants entre les parties, y compris les conditions de leur dissolution.
  In order to make it easier for succession **rights** acquired as a result of an agreement as to succession to be accepted in the Member States, this Regulation should determine which law is to govern the admissibility of such agreements, their substantive validity and their binding effects between the parties, including the conditions for their dissolution.
  ([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 2654561)

- La loi qui, en vertu du présent règlement, régira la recevabilité et la validité au fond d'une disposition à cause de mort ainsi que, en ce qui concerne les **pactes** successoraux, les effets contraignants d'un tel **pacte** entre les parties, devrait être sans préjudice des droits de toute personne qui, en vertu de la loi applicable à la succession, peut prétendre à une réserve héréditaire ou jouit d'un autre droit dont elle ne peut être privée par la personne dont la succession est concernée.
  The law which, under this Regulation, will govern the admissibility and substantive validity of a disposition of property upon death and, as regards agreements as to succession, the binding effects of such an agreement as between the parties, should be without prejudice to the **rights** of any person who, under the law applicable to the succession, has a right to a reserved share or another right of which he cannot be deprived by the person whose estate is involved.
  ([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 2654562)

- De même, les candidats acquéreurs détenant une participation qualifiée de moins de 20 % dans l'entité cible, mais exerçant sur celle-ci par d'autres moyens une influence équivalente à celle qu'ils auraient s'ils détenaient une participation qualifiée comprise entre 20 et 50 %, par exemple à travers les relations qu'ils entretiennent avec les actionnaires existants, l'existence de **pactes** d'actionnaires, la distribution d'actions, des participations et des droits de vote au sein des actionnaires ou leur position au sein de la structure de groupe de l'entité cible, devraient également fournir ces informations afin de permettre un haut degré d'homogénéité de l'évaluation des acquisitions envisagées.
  Similarly, proposed acquirers holding a qualifying holding of less than 20 % in the target entity but exercising an equivalent influence over it through other means such as the relationships between the proposed acquirer and the existing shareholders, the existence of shareholders' agreements, the distribution of shares, participating interests and voting **rights** across shareholders or the proposed acquirer's position within the group structure of the target entity should also provide that information to ensure a high degree of homogeneity in assessing proposed acquisitions.
  ([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 4407506)

## international

Used about 1 549 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 549). Meaning: [international in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/international/).

- Parallèlement, les femmes ont mis en place d &apos; autres mécanismes et organisations visant à appuyer les initiatives nationales et internationales favorisant le respect des conventions et **pactes** internationaux.
  Women have also established other organizing mechanisms to support national and **international** initiatives for the implementation of the agreements and conventions.
  ([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 4865932)

## More sentences

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

- Je n'ai pas l'intention de faire un **pacte** avec le diable.
  I don't intend to make a deal with the devil.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#9829155](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9829155) [\#11058361](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11058361))

- Elle a fait un **pacte** avec le diable.
  She made a deal with the devil.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#4539441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4539441) [\#4540043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4540043))

- De nombreux pays ont signé un **pacte** de désarmement nucléaire.
  Numerous countries have signed a nuclear disarmament agreement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#3354586](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3354586) [\#3354575](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3354575))

## 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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