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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10694114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10694114) [\#11040834](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11040834)) - This is **becoming** the universal panacea. Cela **devient** la panacée universelle. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1613337) - This involved IB **becoming** the legal and economic owner of the real estate in question. Par cette vente, IB en **devient** le propriétaire, juridiquement et économiquement. ([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 840923) - (a) On **becoming** a Party to this Convention; or a) Lorsqu ' il ou elle **devient** Partie à la présente Convention; ou ([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 28635188) - Tom's **becoming** a cult leader. Tom **devient** un chef de secte. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#11747915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11747915) [\#11747923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11747923)) ## devenir Used about 2 694 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 51 · literary ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 197 · legal and administrative ≈ 120 · UN documents ≈ 2 319). Forms: devenait, devenir. - He's afraid of **becoming** ill. Il a peur de **devenir** malade. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#11979177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11979177) [\#133250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/133250)) - His position was visibly **becoming** critical. Sa position **devenait** visiblement critique. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27766) - It was **becoming** essential to do away with the administrative set-up linked to invoicing. Il **devenait** indispensable de balayer le paysage administratif lié à la facturation. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1377260) - **Becoming** Party to This Act Conditions et modalités pour **devenir** partie au présent Acte ([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 315485) - In others, the population remains in place but experiences a change of citizenship or runs the risk of **becoming** stateless. Dans d ' autres cas, la population demeure sur place mais change de nationalité ou risque de **devenir** apatride. ([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 13894904) ## risque Used about 2 497 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 590 · legal and administrative ≈ 52 · UN documents ≈ 1 855). - Why is it that sometimes – in fact, often – **becoming** old implies the risk of getting poorer? Pourquoi le fait de vieillir implique-t-il parfois - souvent, en fait - un **risque** d’appauvrissement? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 558108) - Children are more vulnerable than adults and therefore at greater risk of **becoming** victims of trafficking in human beings. Les enfants sont plus vulnérables que les adultes et courent, par conséquent, un **risque** plus grand d’être victimes de la traite des êtres humains. ([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 2308504) - The current situation is incoherent in several respects and risks **becoming** more so. La situation actuelle traduit un manque de cohérence à plusieurs égards et **risque** d ' empirer. ([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 3983466) - The risk of **becoming** infected with BSE in Europe today is considerably less, very slight indeed, although there are no guarantees. Le **risque** de contracter aujourd'hui l'ESB en Europe a diminué de beaucoup, mais il n'y a pas de certitude. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2025496) - those areas shall be designed to drain water and to prevent standing water **becoming** an unacceptable risk to aircraft operations; ces aires sont conçues pour permettre l'évacuation des eaux et éviter que l'eau stagnante ne constitue un **risque** inacceptable pour l'exploitation des aéronefs; ([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 4670008) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Becoming** too fat is not good for one's health. Prendre trop de poids n'est pas bon pour la santé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#34310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/34310) [\#398047](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/398047)) - I myself have, before **becoming** employed by this company, twice spoken bluntly to the people at the top. J'ai, personnellement, avant d'être employé par cette société, parlé sans détour à la hiérarchie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#329553](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/329553) [\#330244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/330244)) - The girl had to drop the idea of **becoming** a singer. Cette fille a dû laisser tomber l'idée de faire chanteuse. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#3162795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3162795) [\#622746](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/622746)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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