business — English to French

How English business is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: business in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: business (159 952), businesses (23 995). By style: everyday 496 · literary 21 · biblical 18 · parliamentary 16 182 · legal and administrative 31 181 · UN documents 136 049.

entreprise

Used about 95 195 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 163 · parliamentary ≈ 9 440 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 317 · UN documents ≈ 72 276). Forms: entreprise, entreprises.

• Our business is expanding.

  Notre entreprise s'étend.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3622867 #3625489

• In 1992 I started a small business.

  J'ai lancé une petite entreprise en 1992.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 904396

• International Business to Business (BtB) parcel services;

  services internationaux de colis d’entreprise à entreprise;

  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 1117902

• Commission on Enterprise, Business

  Commission des entreprises, de la facilitation

  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 5490257

• Our business is expanding.

  Notre entreprise se développe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3622867 #3625492

activités

Used about 7 601 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 337 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 846 · UN documents ≈ 1 417).

• Essentially, it is a billion-euro business that is all too often associated with criminal activities.

  Pour l'essentiel, c'est une activité qui draine des milliards d'euros et n'est que trop souvent associée à des activités criminelles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1344286

• None for commercial businesses

  Néant pour les activités commerciales

  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 98631

• It has adjusted the length and timing of its meetings to match the annual demands of business.

  Il a adapté la durée et le calendrier de ses réunions aux demandes annuelles d ' activités.

  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 26286511

• The proposal has as its objective the elimination from national law of all additional information disclosure requirements which increase business costs.

  Cette proposition a pour objectif d'éliminer du droit national toutes les exigences supplémentaires de publication qui augmentent le coût des activités.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1166169

• businesses that are cash-intensive;

  activités nécessitant beaucoup d'espèces;

  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 3553651

affaires

Used about 7 325 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 171 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 169 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 299 · UN documents ≈ 5 669).

• That's their business.

  Ce sont ses affaires.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #2251289 #8642605

• There’s no business going on.”

  Il ne se fait pas d'affaires.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17494

• and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of God’s house;

  Schabbethaï et Jozabad, chargés des affaires extérieures de la maison de Dieu, et faisant partie des chefs des Lévites;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 11:16

• As you know, block exemption regulations are very important instruments to the business community.

  Comme vous le savez, les règlements d'exemption par catégorie sont des instruments très importants pour le monde des affaires.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1381523

• Financial reports and business plans

  Rapports financiers et plans d'affaires

  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 4917857

petites

Used about 169 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 169).

• Reducing or abolishing tobacco subsidies would entail the disappearance of small family businesses dotting the European landscape and would open wide the doors of the European market to American producers.

  Réduire ou supprimer les subventions au tabac entraînera la disparition de petites exploitations familiales maillant le territoire et ouvrira en grand les portes du marché européen aux producteurs américains.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 509147

More sentences

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

• Tom and I were business partners.

  Tom et moi étions associés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Maxence · checked, community translation · #2642178 #7695588

• He was travelling on business.

  Il était en déplacement professionnel.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and zogwarg · checked, community translation · #10683591 #11953101

• That is no business of his.

  Ça ne le concerne pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and vandpatr · checked, community translation · #42165 #1306239

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