flexibility — English to French

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

What it means: flexibility in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: flexibilities (999), flexibility (26 601). By style: everyday 4 · parliamentary 4 751 · legal and administrative 2 345 · UN documents 20 500.

flexibilité

Used about 13 579 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 825 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 637 · UN documents ≈ 8 115). Forms: flexibilité, flexibilités.

• The acrobat's flexibility was astonishing.

  L'acrobate était d'une flexibilité étonnante.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · #11958733 #12494073

• That gives extra flexibility.

  Ce système confère une plus grande flexibilité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 747604

• Flexibilities for periodic inspections:

  Flexibilité des inspections périodiques

  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 4992508

• Import flexibility according to nomination

  Flexibilité des importations selon la nomination

  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 9380155

• This material has remarkable flexibility!

  Ce matériau est d'une flexibilité remarquable !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #12302168 #10463816

souplesse

Used about 7 121 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 494 · legal and administrative ≈ 220 · UN documents ≈ 6 406).

• Tom lacks flexibility.

  Tom manque de souplesse.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Airvian and gillux · checked, community translation · #5112909 #3571671

• Yet, we feel that a certain flexibility is required.

  Cependant, il nous semble qu'une certaine souplesse est nécessaire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 123362

• The above timelines do allow for internal flexibility.

  Le calendrier indiqué ci-dessus permet une certaine souplesse interne.

  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 2010933

• Flexibility on national security interests is perhaps asking for too much.

  Demander de la souplesse sur les intérêts de la sécurité nationale est peut—être excessif.

  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 3726117

• Today, we are coming to realise that it enables vast flexibility and quantity.

  Aujourd'hui, on se rend bien compte qu'elle permet énormément de souplesse et de quantité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 59435

More sentences

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

• Flexibility and politeness are the be-all and end-all of my present job.

  L'adaptabilité et l'amabilité sont l'alpha et l'oméga de mon emploi actuel.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dani6187 and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3972134 #14020904

• I voted in favour of the provisions of this report that relate to removing the current duplication and that relate to improving flexibility.

  J'ai voté en faveur des dispositions du présent rapport qui visent à supprimer les doublons et à assouplir le système.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1387770

• What we have before us is a piece of legislation that is disproportionate, has little flexibility and merely repeats what is already covered in other directives.

  Nous sommes en présence d'un texte législatif disproportionné, peu flexible et qui ne fait que réitérer ce qui est déjà couvert par d'autres directives.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 995442

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