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# affect — English to French

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

What it means: [affect in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/affect/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: affect (52 638), affects (14 625). By style: everyday 42 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 5 438 · legal and administrative 11 707 · UN documents 50 072.

## affecte

Used about 7 595 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 1 076 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 317 · UN documents ≈ 4 173). Forms: affecte, affecter.

- It **affects** all of us.
  Ça nous **affecte** tous.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Sisyphe · checked, community translation · [\#4530125](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4530125) [\#4534336](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4534336))

- What happens in another part of the world **affects** us.
  Ce qui se passe dans une autre partie du monde nous **affecte**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 13566)

- the measure must **affect** trade between Member States,
  la mesure **affecte** les échanges entre États membres,
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 1396616)

- If persons are administrative procedure members due to the fact that the procedure **affects** their rights;
  a) Si des personnes sont parties à la procédure administrative parce que celle-ci **affecte** leurs droits;
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 19075283)

- War **affects** us all.
  La guerre nous **affecte** tous.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NatsuDonkey and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4913389](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4913389) [\#4912488](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4912488))

## touche

Used about 5 844 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 906 · legal and administrative ≈ 244 · UN documents ≈ 4 694).

- This issue **affects** everyone.
  Ce problème **touche** chacun d'entre nous.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1183702)

- COVID-19 is a complex disease that **affects** multiple physiological processes.
  La COVID-19 est une maladie complexe qui **touche** de multiples processus physiologiques.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 5232649)

- What happens elsewhere **affects** us all.
  Ce qui se passe ailleurs nous **touche** tous.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 16563317)

- Organized crime **affects** us all.
  La criminalité organisée **touche** l'ensemble de nos pays.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1786621)

- Rabies is an animal disease that mainly **affects** wild and domestic carnivores and has serious public health implications.
  La rage est une maladie animale qui **touche** principalement les animaux carnivores sauvages et domestiques et qui a de graves conséquences pour la santé publique.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2024015)

## échanges

Used about 2 351 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 829 · UN documents ≈ 522).

- **affect** trade between Member States.
  affectent les **échanges** entre États membres.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 558932)

- This training will cover the texts mentioned above which **affect** the daily contacts between the staff and inmates of the facilities.
  Celle-ci abordera les dispositions des textes précités qui se répercutent sur les **échanges** quotidiens entre le personnel des centres et les résidents.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 18630468)

- **affects** trade between Member States.
  affecter les **échanges** entre États membres.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2291143)

- **affects** trade between Member States.
  a une incidence sur les **échanges** entre États membres.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 1687321)

- Fourth, the intervention must be liable to **affect** trade between Member States.
  Quatrièmement, elle doit être susceptible d'affecter les **échanges** entre États membres.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 1133401)

## More sentences

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

- Democracy is a form of government in which every citizen has an equal voice in the decisions that **affect** their lives.
  La démocratie est une forme de gouvernement dans laquelle tous les citoyens ont une voix égale dans les décisions qui affectent leurs vies.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12236988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12236988) [\#863463](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/863463))

- Let us not think that climate change will not **affect** us.
  N'allons pas croire que le changement climatique ne nous affectera pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LeeSooHa and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6551809](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6551809) [\#11939161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11939161))

- I hope this won't **affect** our friendship.
  J'espère que cela n'affectera pas notre amitié.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1970211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1970211) [\#1970501](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1970501))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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