maintain — English to French

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

What it means: maintain in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: maintain (76 111), maintains (14 263). By style: everyday 28 · literary 2 · biblical 17 · parliamentary 5 954 · legal and administrative 11 034 · UN documents 73 339.

maintenir

Used about 18 221 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 1 054 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 644 · UN documents ≈ 14 515).

• We need to maintain focus.

  Nous devons maintenir notre concentration.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5077342 #7555040

• The Commission wants to maintain the high quality of this diploma.

  La Commission veut maintenir la qualité de ce diplôme.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1140687

• Maintain air gap between stacks/pallets.

  Maintenir un intervalle d'air entre les piles/palettes

  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 1638070

• (ii) To maintain situational awareness in the vicinity of MINURCAT locations;

  ii) Maintenir une connaissance des conditions régnant aux abords des sites de la Mission;

  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 23265943

• He can't maintain a conversation.

  Il ne peut pas maintenir une conversation.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by katsmal and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #5111800 #8313772

maintient

Used about 11 350 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 992 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 954 · UN documents ≈ 8 403).

• It creates and maintains interpersonal relationships.

  Elle crée et maintient des relations interpersonnelles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 17663

• Helps/supports/maintains concentration

  Aide/soutient/maintient la concentration

  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 3606508

• The State party maintains that the review is effective in particular cases.

  L ' État partie maintient que le réexamen est efficace dans certains cas.

  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 5568884

• It maintains that the right to take collective action is an important part of labour law.

  Elle maintient que le droit de mener une action collective est un élément important du droit du travail.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1003512

• RAE maintains that this infrastructure is indispensable for:

  L'AREG maintient que cette infrastructure est indispensable pour:

  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 3152183

More sentences

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

• Laser printers are generally cheaper to maintain than inkjet printers.

  Les imprimantes laser sont généralement meilleur marché à entretenir que les imprimantes à jet d'encre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lindoula and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3630776 #3631629

• In the past, the gravedigger would dig graves by hand, transport bodies with ox-drawn carts, and maintain the tombs.

  Autrefois, le fossoyeur creusait à la main les fosses, transportait les corps avec des chariots tirés par des bœufs et entretenait les tombes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano_ and Myrano_ · checked, community translation · #13585519 #13585517

• Laser printers are generally less expensive to maintain than ink jet printers.

  Les imprimantes laser sont généralement moins chères à entretenir que les imprimantes à jet d'encre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by daniel_heurlin and Rovo · checked, community translation · #2244816 #1709565

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