acceptable — English to French

How English acceptable is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: acceptable in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: acceptable (32 459), acceptables (23). By style: everyday 36 · literary 1 · biblical 20 · parliamentary 4 789 · legal and administrative 4 207 · UN documents 23 429.

acceptable

Used about 25 337 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 594 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 243 · UN documents ≈ 19 469). Forms: acceptable, acceptables.

• That's not acceptable.

  Ce n'est pas acceptable.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2195461 #2195897

• This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a million.

  Tout cet ensemble était fort acceptable, comme on voit, surtout avec un appoint de plus d'un demi-million.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29211

• I hope that Amendment 3 is now acceptable.

  J'espère que l'amendement 3 est désormais acceptable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 882490

• Acceptable individual harmonic current In/I1

  Courant acceptable individuel d'harmoniques In/I1

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 5565174

• Such a selective approach was not acceptable.

  Cette approche sélective n ' est pas acceptable.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 7888309

More sentences

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

• There are conditions under which breaking a promise or telling a lie are acceptable.

  Il est des circonstances dans lesquelles rompre une promesse ou proférer un mensonge sont admissibles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and Rovo · checked, community translation · #950168 #1968840

• That kind of behavior isn't acceptable.

  Ce genre de comportement est inacceptable.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4529250 #6847691

• His proposal was not acceptable.

  Sa proposition était inacceptable.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #287199 #15333

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