favour — English to French

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

What it means: favour in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: favour (64 838), favours (2 686). By style: everyday 80 · literary 3 · parliamentary 23 322 · legal and administrative 4 601 · UN documents 39 518.

faveur

Used about 14 476 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 5 831 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 198 · UN documents ≈ 7 410).

• He asked me a favour.

  Il m'a demandé une faveur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and qdii · checked, community translation · #12008600 #631579

• “Thanks, sir; I was about to ask the favour.”

  --Monsieur, répondit résolument Fix, j'allais vous demander cette faveur.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1603

• I voted in favour.

  J'ai voté en faveur du rapport.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1170332

• Section 5: Aid in favour of forestry

  Section 5: Aides en faveur du secteur forestier

  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 3352103

• B. Policies in favour of indigenous peoples

  B. Politiques en faveur des populations autochtones

  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 4835351

favorise

Used about 7 330 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 401 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 869 · UN documents ≈ 2 058).

• Fortune favours the bold.

  La fortune favorise les audacieux.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ooneykcall and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #4493258 #8576358

• Its administration favours the many instead of the few.

  Son administration favorise le plus grand nombre plutôt qu'une élite.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1974809

• Further, it favours only certain undertakings and is therefore selective.

  Elle favorise en outre certaines entreprises, ce qui la rend sélective.

  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 2811288

• It also demands a stable and predictable context that favours the development of private activity.

  Il faut également qu ' existe un climat stable et prévisible qui favorise l ' activité du secteur privé.

  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 3447841

• We need clearer rules and an approach which favours enterprise, such as Mrs Kauppi proposes.

  Nous avons besoin de règles plus claires et d'une approche qui favorise les entreprises, comme Mme Kauppi le propose.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1015915

sélective

Used about 144 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 144).

• To be considered State aid, a measure must be selective, in the sense that it favours certain undertakings or the production of certain goods.

  Pour pouvoir être considérée comme une aide d’État, une mesure doit être sélective, c’est-à-dire qu’elle doit favoriser certaines entreprises ou certaines productions.

  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 3818301

• To be considered State aid, a measure must be specific or selective in that it favours only certain undertakings or the production of certain goods.

  Une mesure est réputée constituer une aide d’État lorsqu’elle est de nature individuelle ou sélective, c’est-à-dire qu’elle avantage uniquement certaines entreprises ou productions particulières.

  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 1979569

• To be considered state aid, a measure must be specific or selective in that it favours only certain undertakings or the production of certain goods.

  Une mesure est réputée constituer une aide d’État lorsqu’elle est de nature individuelle ou sélective, c’est-à-dire qu’elle avantage uniquement certaines entreprises ou productions particulières.

  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 2228879

productions

Used about 96 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 96).

• favours certain undertakings or the production of certain goods,

  favoriser certaines entreprises ou certaines productions,

  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 4163812

• In so far as they favour certain undertakings or the production of certain goods, they may constitute State aid as referred to in Article 107(1) of the TFEU.

  Dès lors qu’ils favorisent certaines entreprises ou certaines productions, ils sont susceptibles de constituer des aides d’État visées par l’article 107, paragraphe 1, du TFUE.

  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 2012729

More sentences

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

• Could you do me a favour?

  Pourriez-vous me rendre un service ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BE and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3273828 #551478

• My dear Watson, you would confer a great favour upon me by coming.

  Mon cher Watson, vous me rendriez un grand service en venant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · #6957456 #8850070

• Could you do me a favour?

  Tu pourrais me rendre un service ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BE and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #3273828 #3273829

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