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# democracy — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: democracies (5 578), democracy (71 336). By style: everyday 102 · literary 1 · parliamentary 18 010 · legal and administrative 1 214 · UN documents 57 587.

## démocratie

Used about 70 987 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 100 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 16 884 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 214 · UN documents ≈ 52 788). Forms: démocratie, démocraties.

- I believe in **democracy**.
  Je crois en la **démocratie**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5607286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5607286) [\#14097087](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14097087))

- In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the son of **democracy**, was the conquest of a yoke for others.
  Dans cette campagne, le but du soldat français, fils de la **démocratie**, était la conquête d'un joug pour autrui.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7910)

- Greater transparency equals better **democracy**.
  Une transparence accrue équivaut à une **démocratie** accrue.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 831781)

- **Democracy** and the rule of law
  **Démocratie** et état de droit
  ([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 773848)

- E. **Democracy** as good governance
  E. La **démocratie**, modèle de fonctionnement de l &apos; État
  ([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 542901)

## More sentences

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

- Algeria needs to achieve **democracy**.
  L'Algérie a besoin d'instaurer un système démocratique.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#7861003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7861003) [\#11958597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958597))

- On the contrary, there would be even less **democracy** in the EU.
  Tout au contraire, le déficit démocratique de l'UE s'en trouverait accru.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1701058)

- This means that the US itself continues to pursue **democracy**, including the legislation that this entails.
  Cela signifie qu'il faut également vouloir la conserver soi-même, y compris pour ce qui concerne les lois correspondantes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 367757)

## 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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