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# suffisant — French to English

How French *suffisant* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: suffisant (30 846), suffisante (28 236), suffisantes (33 055), suffisants (16 810). By style: everyday 100 · literary 5 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 6 333 · legal and administrative 16 553 · UN documents 85 954.

## sufficient

Used about 50 515 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 738 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 846 · UN documents ≈ 34 919). Meaning: [sufficient in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sufficient/).

- Mon explication n'était pas **suffisante**.
  My explanation was not **sufficient**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CK · checked, community translation · [\#251313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251313) [\#130789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130789))

- Un mendiant déguenillé, qui ne pouvait faire recette, perdu qu'il était au milieu de la foule, et qui n'avait sans doute pas trouvé **suffisante** indemnité dans les poches de ses voisins, avait imaginé de se jucher sur quelque point en évidence, pour attirer les regards et les aumônes.
  A tattered mendicant, who could not collect any coins, lost as he was in the midst of the crowd, and who had not probably found **sufficient** indemnity in the pockets of his neighbors, had hit upon the idea of perching himself upon some conspicuous point, in order to attract looks and alms.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 357)

- aux uns, une odeur de mort, donnant la mort; aux autres, une odeur de vie, donnant la vie. Et qui est **suffisant** pour ces choses?
  to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is **sufficient** for these things?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 2:16)

- Y aura-t-il un appui logistique **suffisant**?
  Will there be **sufficient** logistical back-up?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1039530)

- A-t-elle un effet incitatif **suffisant**?
  Does it have a **sufficient** incentive effect?
  ([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 1372881)

## adequate

Used about 31 952 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 594 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 810 · UN documents ≈ 29 547). Meaning: [adequate in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/adequate/).

- Je ne considère pas cela **suffisant**.
  I don't consider that **adequate**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2275975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2275975) [\#2420765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2420765))

- Les États membres ont été obligés de constituer des stocks **suffisants**.
  An obligation was introduced for the Member States to have an **adequate** quota.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1259856)

- ou iv) de servir une rémunération constante et **suffisante** à son actionnaire.
  or (iv) to provide a steady and **adequate** remuneration for its shareholder.
  ([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 3795418)

- Droit à une alimentation **suffisante**
  Right to **adequate** food
  ([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 27503998)

- En effet, l'activité agricole est seulement possible si de l'eau pure est disponible en quantité **suffisante**.
  You can only farm if you have an **adequate** supply of clean water.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 10426)

## enough

Used about 6 092 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 68 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 649 · legal and administrative ≈ 345 · UN documents ≈ 4 029). Meaning: [enough in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/enough/).

- Ce n'est pas **suffisant**.
  It's not **enough**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1855207](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1855207) [\#1858255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1858255))

- Souvent ces chaînes de rocs arides faisaient une pointe vers la mer et mordaient sur le pâturage; mais il restait toujours une place **suffisante** pour passer.
  Often these chains of barren rocks made a dip towards the sea, and encroached upon the scanty pasturage: but there was always **enough** room to pass.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1060)

- Ce n'est pas **suffisant**.
  That is not **enough**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 96727)

- Afin de fournir un espace **suffisant** pour offrir un environnement complexe, aucun compartiment ne devrait avoir une surface inférieure à 4500 cm2.
  In order to provide **enough** space for environmental complexity, no animal enclosure should be less than 4500 cm2.
  ([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 1178313)

- Ces centres existent-ils en nombre **suffisant** pour satisfaire à la demande ?
  Were there **enough** centres to satisfy demand?
  ([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 2795716)

## resources

Used about 994 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 99 · UN documents ≈ 895).

- Nous devons mettre des moyens **suffisants** à disposition de la recherche à partir de 2003.
  We must look to research to make **resources** available for the post-2003 era.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 297839)

- Comme d &apos; autres pays peu avancés, le Bénin ne dispose pas de ressources financières **suffisantes** pour honorer ses engagements.
  Benin, like other least developed countries, had insufficient financial **resources** to meet its commitments.
  ([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 20111765)

- Le Service volontaire ne pourra être accepté par les jeunes en Europe que si la dotation financière est **suffisante**.
  The voluntary service will only be acceptable to Europe's young people if significant financial **resources** are made available.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1821943)

- Nous veillerons à ce que l &apos; AIEA continue de bénéficier de structures, de ressources et de compétences **suffisantes** pour atteindre les objectifs fixés en matière de sécurité nucléaire.
  We will work to ensure that IAEA continues to have the appropriate structure, **resources** and expertise needed to support the implementation of nuclear security objectives.
  ([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 26730972)

- Aussi devons-nous inviter les États membres à participer à cette initiative et à y allouer des ressources humaines et financières **suffisantes**.
  For this reason we need to call on Member States to participate in this initiative and to allocate appropriate human and financial **resources** for this purpose.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1094746)

## ensure

Used about 961 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 66 · UN documents ≈ 895). Meaning: [ensure in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ensure/).

- Lancer des plans n’est pas **suffisant**, il est capital de veiller à leur mise en œuvre.
  It is essential to **ensure** that the plans are implemented.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 531834)

- b) Assurer aux victimes une réparation **suffisante**;
  **ensure** proper reparation for victims;
  ([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 16876091)

- Par conséquent, nous devons également nous assurer que des montants **suffisants** sont alloués à la mise en oeuvre de programmes culturels adéquats dans les perspectives financières 2007-2013.
  Accordingly, we must also **ensure** that suitable sums are allocated to the implementation of appropriate cultural programmes in the 2007-2013 Financial Perspective.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 800124)

- - Moyens financiers **suffisants** pour permettre la réalisation des critères susmentionnés.
  :: Adequacy of financial support to **ensure** the above.
  ([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 11431145)

## More sentences

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

- Ça devrait être amplement **suffisant**.
  This should be plenty.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and blay\_paul · checked, community translation · [\#519051](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/519051) [\#1328772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1328772))

- Tom a eu un « **suffisant** » à son contrôle continu.
  Tom received a pass mark in the test.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11101759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11101759) [\#9412924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9412924))

- Peut-être manque-t-il de sophistication, mais au moins n'est-il pas snob et **suffisant**.
  He may have lowbrow tastes but at least he's not snooty and conceited.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#700004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/700004) [\#805057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/805057))

## 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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