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Forms: commet, commettre. - They incited him to **commit** the crime. Ils l'incitèrent à **commettre** un crime. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#307385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/307385) [\#6851561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6851561)) - When the righteous turns from his righteousness and **commits** iniquity, he will even die therein. Si le juste se détourne de sa justice et **commet** l’iniquité, il mourra à cause de cela. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 33:18) - In other words, a criminal who **commits** an offence in a Member State can seek asylum in Russia. En d'autres termes, un criminel qui **commet** un délit dans un État membre peut demander asile à la Russie. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 983112) - **commits** one of the breaches referred to in Article 67(1). **commet** l'une des infractions visées à l'article 67, paragraphe 1. ([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 2853515) - In these instances, she too **commits** incest. Dans ces cas, elle aussi **commet** l ' inceste. ([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 3798714) ## engage Used about 6 964 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 616 · legal and administrative ≈ 677 · UN documents ≈ 5 669). Forms: engage, engager. - Don't **commit** yourself. Ne t'**engage** pas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#35766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35766) [\#13040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13040)) - Only if Europe **commits** to this can the EU truly gain confidence. L'Europe ne pourra susciter de véritable confiance que si elle s'y **engage**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 883244) - Fifth, the UK **commits**: Cinquièmement, le Royaume-Uni s’**engage**: ([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 5069589) - 5. The Government of Burundi **commits** to undertake the following: Le Gouvernement burundais s ' **engage** : ([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 26707554) - The career soldier **commits** to long-term service, with ongoing training and opportunities for advancement. Le militaire de carrière s’**engage** pour servir sur le long terme, avec une formation continue et des perspectives d’avancement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362880) [\#13362879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362879)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Whatever misfortunes you may have, just don't **commit** suicide. Quels que soient tes malheurs, surtout, ne te suicide pas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#6481986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6481986) [\#6475506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6475506)) - He tried to **commit** suicide. Il a fait une tentative de suicide. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#1453897](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1453897) [\#1456801](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1456801)) - Captured by the enemy, he decides to **commit** suicide. Capturé par l’ennemi, il décide de se suicider. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#12406350](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12406350) [\#12406346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12406346)) ## 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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