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# constituted — English to French

How English *constituted* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: constituted (24 634), constituteds (1). By style: literary 8 · parliamentary 253 · legal and administrative 2 413 · UN documents 21 961.

## constitué

Used about 10 633 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 63 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 156 · UN documents ≈ 9 412). Forms: constituaient, constituait, constitue, constitué.

- These obscure and lively roots **constituted**, not the right of a family, but the history of a people.
  Ces obscures et vivaces racines ne **constituaient** point le droit d'une famille, mais l'histoire d'un peuple.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17998)

- This coexistence has always **constituted** a legal risk.
  Cette coexistence a toujours **constitué** un risque juridique.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 643268)

- The grants therefore **constituted** an advantage.
  Ces subventions ont donc **constitué** un avantage.
  ([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 410158)

- It **constituted** a breach of article 359 of the Criminal Code.
  Cette atteinte **constitue** une violation de l &apos; article 359 du Code pénal.
  ([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 25899254)

- As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume continued to present that contrast of coat and trousers which **constituted** the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac’s eyes.
  Quant à Jondrette, il n'avait pas quitté le surtout neuf et trop large pour lui que M. Leblanc lui avait donné, et son costume continuait d'offrir ce contraste de la redingote et du pantalon qui **constituait** aux yeux de Courfeyrac l'idéal du poète.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17101)

## More sentences

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

- This **constituted** the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has probably not forgotten,—little Cosette.
  C'était là la terreur de ce pauvre être que le lecteur n'a peut-être pas oublié, de la petite Cosette.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8002)

- He **constituted** himself the tribunal.
  Il se constitua tribunal.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1974)

- People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature is so **constituted**.
  On se rassure presque aussi follement qu'on s'inquiète; la nature humaine est ainsi.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24961)

## Grammar

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