commitment — English to French

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

What it means: commitment in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: commitment (145 426), commitments (104 447). By style: everyday 14 · parliamentary 15 820 · legal and administrative 15 781 · UN documents 218 258.

engagements

Used about 167 798 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 13 019 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 808 · UN documents ≈ 140 958). Forms: engagement, engagements.

• It's a huge commitment.

  C'est un engagement énorme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #4496729 #6668565

• Will the debtor evade his commitments?

  Le débiteur va-t-il se soustraire à ses engagements?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 986139

• Commitments and guarantees given

  Engagements et garanties donnés

  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 5168952

• Voluntary pledges and commitments

  Promesses et engagements volontaires

  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 25573271

• Marriage is a commitment.

  Le mariage est un engagement.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #6326208 #8179685

More sentences

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

• Due to the work commitments of one of the members, the meeting had to be postponed.

  À cause des contraintes professionnelles de l'un des membres, la réunion a dû être reportée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and GeeZ · checked, community translation · #1392097 #1392100

• A greater commitment would in fact have been required in order for them to be adopted within the time allowed.

  Il aurait en réalité fallu s'engager davantage pour qu'ils puissent être adoptés dans les délais prescrits.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1239157

• A commitment to sustainable development is also called for: we are already aware that fumigation using Fusarium oxysporum is harmful to the environment.

  Il convient de garantir le développement durable : nous savons déjà que les fumigations au Fusarium oxysporum sont nocives pour l'environnement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 149602

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