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# contingent — English to French

How English *contingent* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: contingent (23 869), contingents (7 859). By style: everyday 1 · parliamentary 147 · legal and administrative 1 495 · UN documents 30 085.

## contingents

Used about 25 119 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 77 · legal and administrative ≈ 598 · UN documents ≈ 24 444). Forms: contingent, contingents.

- We now have in Chad a large **contingent** of Irish troops.
  Nous avons désormais au Tchad un large **contingent** de troupes irlandaises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1050818)

- ‘national **contingents**’ shall mean units and elements belonging to the Member States of the EU and to other States participating in EUTM Mali;
  «**contingents** nationaux», les unités et les éléments appartenant aux États membres de l'UE et aux autres États participant à l'EUTM Mali;
  ([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 2785258)

- VII. **Contingent**-owned equipment
  VII. Matériel appartenant aux **contingents**
  ([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 5580266)

- Several Member States have also reinforced their own **contingents** in KFOR.
  Différents États membres ont renforcé leurs propres **contingents** au sein de la KFOR.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 40139)

- A National **Contingent** Point of Contact (‘NPC’) shall be appointed by the Republic of Moldova to represent its national **contingent** in the operation.
  La République de Moldavie désigne un point de contact des **contingents** nationaux («PCN») pour représenter son contingent national au sein de l’opération.
  ([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 2769168)

## militaires

Used about 1 882 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 1 880).

- A good example of the new type of action is IFOR in Bosnia, which is composed not only of NATO peace-keepers but also of **contingents** from Russia, the Baltic States and the non-aligned countries.
  Les troupes de l'IFOR en Bosnie sont un bon exemple de ce nouveau genre d'action: outre des **militaires** de l'OTAN, elles comptent des militaires russes, baltes et de pays non alignés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1637556)

- An average of 11,036 military **contingents** and 987 civilian personnel (including 3 temporary positions)
  11 036 **militaires** et 987 civils (dont 3 affectés à des emplois de temporaire) en moyenne
  ([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 27221375)

- Authorized strength of 15,000 military **contingents** and 1,101 civilian personnel (including 3 temporary positions)
  Effectif moyen : 15 000 **militaires** et 1 101 civils (dont 3 postes de temporaire)
  ([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 25541182)

- Support will be provided to the authorized strength of 1,047 military **contingent** personnel and to the substantive civilian staffing establishment of the mission.
  Un appui sera fourni à l &apos; effectif autorisé de 1 047 **militaires** et au personnel civil de la mission.
  ([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 19718289)

- Rotation of an average strength of 7,500 **contingent** personnel, 1,000 formed police personnel and 897 United Nations police officers
  Relève d &apos; un effectif moyen de 7 500 **militaires**, 1 000 membres d &apos; unités de police constituées et 897 membres de la police civile
  ([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 17911103)

## More sentences

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

- His success is **contingent** upon his efforts.
  Son succès dépend de ses efforts.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#286942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286942) [\#11976588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11976588))

- These amendments make the provision of aid **contingent** on political criteria which are far too demanding.
  Ces amendements fixent en effet des critères politiques bien trop difficiles à atteindre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1959140)

- Mr President, this morning’s session seems to be turning into a private chat among the Dutch **contingent**, so we shall just continue.
  - Monsieur le Président, la session de ce matin semble tourner en discussion privée entre les députés néerlandais, alors continuons!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 544321)

## 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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