constructive — English to French

How English constructive is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: constructive in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: constructive (33 125), constructives (10). By style: everyday 9 · parliamentary 4 410 · legal and administrative 194 · UN documents 28 522.

constructive

Used about 29 443 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 4 226 · legal and administrative ≈ 129 · UN documents ≈ 25 080). Forms: constructif, constructive, constructives.

• Tom has constructive ideas.

  Tom a des idées constructives.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #5621683 #5621729

• That is not a constructive way of working on the part of the EPP.

  Ce n'est pas une méthode de travail constructive de la part du PPE.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1294152

• Show a constructive attitude.

  Faire preuve d'une attitude constructive.

  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 774157

• But this process should be constructive.

  Mais ce processus doit être constructif.

  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 14927501

• That's a constructive suggestion!

  C'est une suggestion constructive !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CE and lbdx · checked, community translation · #239066 #8430467

remercier

Used about 184 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 184).

• Next, I should like to thank Mr Désir for his constructive amendments.

  Ensuite, je voudrais remercier M. Désir pour ses amendements constructifs.

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• I would also like to thank the Member States, who have been very constructive in this area.

  Je voudrais également remercier les États membres qui ont été très constructifs dans ce domaine.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1407151

More sentences

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

• Find a more constructive outlet for your emotions rather than persistently resorting to passive-aggressive jabs directed at me.

  Trouve un meilleur moyen d'exprimer tes émotions plutôt que de te livrer constamment à des attaques passives-agressives à mon égard.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Myrano_ · checked, community translation · #11847540 #14037991

• An example of a constructive obligation is where a change in the entity’s informal practices would cause unacceptable damage to its relationship with employees.

  À titre d’exemple, une obligation implicite existe dans le cas où un changement des usages de l’entité entraînerait une dégradation inacceptable de ses relations avec le personnel.

  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 2627861

• The existing undertakings were accepted in the spirit of seeking a constructive remedy to the injurious dumping.

  Les engagements existants ont été acceptés dans cet esprit, afin de remédier à la situation de dumping préjudiciable.

  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 954062

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