purposes — English to French

How English purposes is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: purposes (141 712). By style: everyday 14 · literary 3 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 3 002 · legal and administrative 45 035 · UN documents 93 654.

fins

Used about 81 152 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 626 · legal and administrative ≈ 36 591 · UN documents ≈ 42 925).

• This room is used for various purposes.

  Cette salle est utilisée à diverses fins.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #57337 #12320485

• However, it must be used for civilian purposes.

  Toutefois, elle doit servir des fins civiles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1205989

• For the purposes of this Agreement:

  Aux fins du présent accord:

  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 290099

• For the purposes of this Convention:

  Aux fins de la présente Convention:

  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 11699065

• For all practical purposes, that word is obsolete.

  Pour toutes fins pratiques, ce mot est obsolète.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6994467 #8751259

données

Used about 938 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 938).

• Insulated coaxial cables and other coaxial electric conductors for data and control purposes whether or not fitted with connectors

  Câbles coaxiaux et autres conducteurs électriques coaxiaux, pour contrôle et transmission de données, munis ou non de connecteurs, pour une tension ≤ 80 V

  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 1220049

utilisation

Used about 125 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 125).

• Parliament has not been able to make up its mind to decisively reject the use of Galileo for military purposes.

  Le Parlement européen n'a pas pu se résoudre à opposer un refus clair à l'utilisation militaire de Galileo.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 291947

• The absence of timely and comparable data specifying the purposes on which public resources are spent is also a constraint.

  Une autre limite à ce débat est l'absence, dans certains cas, de données comparables sur la finalité de l'utilisation des fonds publics.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 322860

More sentences

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

• For our purposes, the amplitude of the waves is less important than their frequency.

  Pour nos besoins, l'amplitude des ondes est moins importante que leur fréquence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #9034303 #9207125

• Science can be used for good or evil purposes.

  La science peut être employée à bon ou à mauvais escient.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1127458 #1128951

• There are no such things as functions, no purposes, no teleology at all in the world.

  Il n’y a rien du tout au monde de tel que des fonctions, des buts, une téléologie.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #11305389 #11305400

Grammar

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