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Forms: constitue, constituent. - What **constitutes** "hate speech"? Qu'est-ce qui **constitue** un « discours de haine » ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#14092341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14092341) [\#14092344](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14092344)) - To be present at executions **constitutes** a duty. Assister aux exécutions **constitue** un devoir. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12727) - The wall in Nicosia **constitutes** a threat. Le mur de Nicosie **constitue** une menace. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 770161) - All of the ELA granted by the BNB **constitutes** aid. La totalité de l’ELA accordée par la BNB **constitue** de l’aide. ([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 3117968) - Racism is a sin that **constitutes** a serious offence against God. Le racisme est un pêché qui **constitue** une offense grave contre Dieu. ([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 29485962) ## aide Used about 2 099 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 43 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 289 · UN documents ≈ 767). - That is why I urge the House to adopt Amendment 113, which **constitutes** a response to all those hoping for aid. J'insiste donc auprès de cette Assemblée pour qu'elle adopte l'amendement 113, qui apporte une réponse à tous ceux qui espèrent une **aide**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 939521) - It is also thus considered to be new aid that **constitutes** operating aid. Il est donc considéré qu'il s'agit d'une **aide** nouvelle constitutive d'une aide au fonctionnement. ([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 5671079) - The Centre helps to develop a broader conception of what **constitutes** poverty applicable to relatively self-sufficient and unacculturated societies. Il **aide** à élaborer une conception élargie de ce qu ' est la pauvreté dans les sociétés relativement autosuffisantes et non acculturées. ([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 922838) - It is therefore submitted that none of the three guarantees could **constitute** State aid measures. Aussi est-il allégué qu’aucune des trois garanties ne saurait constituer une mesure d’**aide** d’État. ([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 3497408) - The CSPE exemptions granted to self-generating consumers did not **constitute** State aid Les exonérations de CSPE octroyées aux auto-consommateurs d'électricité ne sont pas constitutives d'une **aide** d'État ([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 4815459) ## donc Used about 951 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 184 · UN documents ≈ 767). - The Commission therefore takes the view that SMAC’s resources **constitute** state resources. La Commission considère **donc** que les ressources du SMAC sont des ressources d’État. ([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 3506443) - While they could therefore be useful as a tool, they would not **constitute** an operational procedure. Ils pourraient **donc** être un outil utile, mais on ne pourrait pas les qualifier de procédure opérationnelle. ([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 6916921) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not **constitute** a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. Nul ne sera condamné pour des actions ou omissions qui, au moment où elles ont été commises, ne constituaient pas un acte délictueux d'après le droit national ou international. De même, il ne sera infligé aucune peine plus forte que celle qui était applicable au moment où l'acte délictueux a été commis. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jakov and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#554683](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/554683) [\#629661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/629661)) - The binding energy between quarks **constitutes** 99 percent of proton and neutron mass. L'énergie de liaison entre les quarks représente quatre-vingt-dix-neuf pour cent de la masse des protons et des neutrons. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12442036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12442036) [\#12413315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12413315)) - What **constitutes** "hate speech"? Qu'entend-on par « discours de haine » ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#14092341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14092341) [\#14092335](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14092335)) ## 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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