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# decline — English to French

How English *decline* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: decline (24 386), declines (2 288). By style: everyday 29 · literary 2 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 1 249 · legal and administrative 1 249 · UN documents 24 143.

## baisse

Used about 6 137 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 78 · legal and administrative ≈ 273 · UN documents ≈ 5 784).

- “Prepare war against her! Arise! Let’s go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day **declines**, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
  Préparez-vous à l’attaquer! Allons! Montons en plein midi!… Malheureusement pour nous, le jour **baisse**, Les ombres du soir s’allongent.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 6:4)

- We hope that your popularity does not continue to **decline** because of fish!
  Nous souhaitons que sa popularité ne **baisse** pas encore à cause du poisson !
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2025020)

- and what constitutes a large **decline**.
  et ce qui constitue une **baisse** importante.
  ([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 4863751)

- **Declines** in commodity prices would raise fresh problems.
  Cela dit, une **baisse** des prix soulèverait d &apos; autres problèmes.
  ([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 26864290)

- Agricultural production is on the **decline** while the number of mouths to be fed is increasing.
  La production agricole **baisse** alors que le nombre de bouches à nourrir augmente.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 334966)

## diminution

Used about 2 705 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 47 · legal and administrative ≈ 143 · UN documents ≈ 2 515).

- This ratio is projected to increase in several countries to over 100%, causing a **decline** in growing stock after 2020.
  Des projections prévoient que ce rapport progressera au-delà des 100 % dans plusieurs pays, provoquant une **diminution** des réserves de bois sur pied après 2020.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1556838)

- While the **decline** in cash-flow could somehow be limited, it also remained negative as from 2007.
  Même si la **diminution** des flux de liquidités a pu en quelque sorte être contenue, ceux-ci sont devenus négatifs à compter de 2007.
  ([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 2341122)

- Sharp **decline** in donor contributions between 1990-2001
  Nette **diminution** des contributions des donateurs entre 1990 et 2001
  ([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 8541347)

- We must make sure that the actions we take will reverse the **declines** in several cod stocks and northern hake and allow them to recover.
  Nous devons nous assurer que les actions que nous prenons vont inverser la tendance à la **diminution** des stocks de poisson et leur permettre de se reconstituer.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 339895)

- It is thus concluded that the **decline** of consumption did not cause the injury suffered by the Community industry.
  Il est donc conclu que la **diminution** de la consommation n’a pas causé le préjudice subi par l’industrie communautaire.
  ([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 1504407)

## déclin

Used about 2 219 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 375 · legal and administrative ≈ 78 · UN documents ≈ 1 760).

- Is France in **decline**?
  La France est-elle en **déclin** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#11790904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11790904) [\#10322554](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10322554))

- He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady’s father said, “Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day **declines**;” and they both ate.
  Le cinquième jour, il se leva de bon matin pour partir. Alors le père de la jeune femme dit: Fortifie ton cœur, je te prie; et restez jusqu’au **déclin** du jour. Et ils mangèrent eux deux.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 19:8)

- It is now far too large, and production is in **decline**.
  Elle est maintenant beaucoup trop grande et la production est en **déclin**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 557228)

- L. showing leaf scorching and rapid **decline** symptoms.
  L., qui ont présenté un dessèchement des feuilles et des symptômes de **déclin** rapide.
  ([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 3109953)

- 24. The aggregate **decline** in ODA, however, masks the individual country gains and losses.
  Ce **déclin** général de l &apos; APD cache toutefois des variations individuelles entre pays.
  ([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 6877314)

## More sentences

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

- His health has begun to **decline**.
  Sa santé commence à décliner à présent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and manuk7 · checked, community translation · [\#285984](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/285984) [\#130250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130250))

- The mayor thought that he should investigate the **decline** in tax revenues.
  La maire pensa qu'il devrait enquêter sur la chute des recettes fiscales.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#246166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/246166) [\#1073464](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1073464))

- She tried to persuade him not to **decline** the offer.
  Elle a essayé de le convaincre de ne pas refuser l'offre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#887472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887472) [\#1393049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1393049))

## Grammar

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