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By style: everyday 50 · literary 1 · parliamentary 5 419 · legal and administrative 1 597 · UN documents 41 231. ## progress Used about 19 754 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 751 · legal and administrative ≈ 437 · UN documents ≈ 16 538). Forms: progress, progressing. Meaning: [progress in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/progress/). - Tu **progresses**. You're making **progress**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2218204](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2218204) [\#7204865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7204865)) - En avançant eux-mêmes, ils font **progresser** leurs satellites; c'est tout un système solaire en marche. As they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to **progress** also; it is a whole solar system on the march. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1076) - Je pense que nous **progressons**. I think we are making good **progress**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2045851) - Les États parties **progressent** en vue de: States Parties make **progress** towards: ([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 1689603) - Mais en tout état de cause, nous **progressons**. But we are making **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 16922159) ## forward Used about 3 448 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 431 · legal and administrative ≈ 30 · UN documents ≈ 2 986). Meaning: [forward in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/forward/). - Les adolescents, qui copient les gros rappeurs étasuniens, se sont mis depuis quelques années à marcher comme des métronomes, en balançant de droite et de gauche, ce qui est la seule manière de **progresser** quand on fait plus de cent-vingt kilos, mais se révèle totalement inefficace lorsqu'on est un mince adolescent de la moitié de ce poids, puisque l'essentiel de l'énergie est perdue latéralement, sans parler du côté absolument ridicule de cette démarche pendulaire. For the past few years, teenagers who imitate overweight American rappers have been walking like inverted pendulums, swinging from left to right, which is the only way **forward** if you weigh over two hundred and sixty pounds, but completely ineffective if you are a scrawny teenager weighing half of that, since most of the energy is wasted on side steps, not to mention the sheer absurdity of that swinging gait. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and arnxy20 · checked, community translation · [\#2472726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2472726) [\#1314367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1314367)) - Il importe de **progresser** par l'intermédiaire de la communauté internationale. It is important to move **forward** via the international community. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 434150) - Faire **progresser** le processus de réforme et garantir la bonne mise en œuvre du programme stratégique 2004-2008. Carry **forward** the reform process and ensure the proper implementation of the Strategic Plan 2004 to 2008. ([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 395233) - Nous **progressons** vers cet objectif. We are moving **forward** towards that goal. ([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 10191580) - **Progressons** au niveau de la démocratie, des droits de l’homme et de l’égalité. Let us move **forward** in democracy, human rights and equality. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 735172) ## towards Used about 1 889 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 144 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 · UN documents ≈ 1 723). - Nous voudrions qu'ils **progressent** sur la voie de la démocratie et du respect des droits de l'homme. We want them to move **towards** democracy and to respect human rights. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1553933) - Il s’agit d’une estimation prudente, compte tenu du fait que l’efficacité du système énergétique devrait **progresser** d’ici à 2020. This is a conservative estimate, as the power system efficiency is expected to increase **towards** 2020. ([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 2777636) - Nous **progressons** donc résolument sur la voie d ' un plus grand multilatéralisme. We are clearly on the path **towards** greater multilateralism. ([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 8795288) - C'est la seule façon de **progresser** vers l'objectif d'un taux zéro de fraude dans l'Union européenne. That is the only way that we can move **towards** the target of zero fraud in the EU. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1537991) - Les objectifs du CCR sont de **progresser** vers le suivi en temps réel des transferts de matières nucléaires et l'analyse intégrée des informations. The JRC objectives are to move **towards** real-time follow-up of nuclear material transfers and integrated information analysis. ([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 868363) ## making Used about 630 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 41 · legal and administrative ≈ 15 · UN documents ≈ 574). Meaning: [making in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/making/). - La protection des femmes, combat de l'Europe, **progresse** avec ce texte. Europe's campaign to protect women is **making** headway with 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 1384446) - La société mère de Bison-Bial se trouve elle aussi en difficulté. Elle enregistre des pertes, son endettement **progresse**; elle ne peut donc pas venir en aide à Bison-Bial. BB’s parent company is also in difficulty, **making** losses and accumulating debt, and so it is unable to resolve BB’s problems. ([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 1352369) - Dans certains domaines, nous **progressons** rapidement, mais dans d ' autres, les effets sont plus modestes. In some areas we are **making** rapid advances; in others, the impact is more modest. ([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 16922158) - Je ne dis pas que cela sera facile, mais je suis persuadé que c'est un moyen plus efficace de **progresser**, en lieu et place de belles déclarations. I am not saying that that would be easy, but I do believe this to be a better way forward than **making** rhetorically appealing declarations. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1228878) - Toutefois, au fur et à mesure que **progresse** le déploiement de réseaux alternatifs, les conditions de concurrence peuvent varier de manière significative et durable entre différentes parties d’un même État membre (par exemple, entre les zones urbaines et les zones rurales), ce qui rend nécessaire la définition de marchés géographiques distincts. However, as the deployment of alternative networks progresses, competitive conditions can vary significantly and sustainably between different areas of the same Member State (for instance between urban and rural areas), thus **making** necessary the definition of separate geographic markets. ([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 5128957) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il a fallu longtemps pour faire **progresser** la médecine moderne. It took a lot of time to get up to date in modern medicine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and jeanne · checked, community translation · [\#460358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/460358) [\#140048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/140048)) - Il veut vraiment **progresser**. He really wants to improve. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ET · checked, community translation · [\#8505782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8505782) [\#11155906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11155906)) - L'élève doit **progresser**. The pupil has to improve. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#3791441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3791441) [\#11155902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11155902)) ## 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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