undertaking — English to French

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

What it means: undertaking in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: undertaking (51 053), undertakings (28 134). By style: everyday 3 · literary 2 · parliamentary 3 578 · legal and administrative 42 565 · UN documents 33 039.

entreprise

Used about 39 778 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 507 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 141 · UN documents ≈ 4 130). Forms: entreprise, entreprises.

• It's a completely pointless undertaking.

  C'est une entreprise complètement vaine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10524387 #13257837

• It has been a huge undertaking, which this document draws to a close.

  Ce fut une énorme entreprise qui, avec ce document, touche à sa fin.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1178270

• Concessions awarded to an affiliated undertaking

  Concessions attribuées à une entreprise liée

  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 3190371

• (a) Better financial and tax control of undertakings in the sector;

  a) Intensification du contrôle fiscal et financier des entreprises du secteur;

  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 1880099

• Not only railway undertakings, others too should be able to do this.

  Pas uniquement les entreprises ferroviaires, les autres doivent également pouvoir.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 71476

engagement

Used about 10 793 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 753 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 877 · UN documents ≈ 5 162). Forms: engagement, engagements.

• I believe that there must be an undertaking in this regard.

  Je crois que sur ce point, un engagement doit être pris.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 396718

• Evaluation of undertaking offer

  Évaluation de l’offre d’engagement

  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 2806146

• Signature of an undertaking not to leave the district;

  − Signature d ' un engagement écrit de ne pas quitter le district;

  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 13391617

• Having given undertakings, it then left it to Parliament to deliver on them.

  Après avoir pris des engagements, le Conseil a laissé au Parlement le soin de les tenir.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 709930

• This applies irrespective of whether price undertakings are appropriate for the product.

  Cette règle s'applique indépendamment du fait que les engagements de prix conviennent au produit.

  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 954224

More sentences

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

• We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.

  Nous n’avions pas la moindre notion de ce que nous avions entrepris.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #12184044 #12184045

• They are undertaking a trip around the world in eighty days!

  Ils entreprennent un voyage autour du monde dans quatre-vingts jours !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #13903570 #13903571

• She tried to follow him, but Marius walked briskly, and with immense strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois.

  Elle essaya de le suivre, mais Marius marchait lestement et avec d'immenses enjambées; c'était un hippopotame entreprenant la poursuite d'un chamois.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15338

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