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# dependent — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: dependent (26 921), dependents (970). By style: everyday 29 · literary 1 · parliamentary 2 542 · legal and administrative 2 093 · UN documents 23 226.

## charge

Used about 10 088 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 406 · legal and administrative ≈ 488 · UN documents ≈ 9 194).

- These **dependents** are generally the children of female prisoners.
  Ces personnes à **charge** sont généralement les enfants de détenues.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1052103)

- lives as a single adult with one or more **dependents**; or
  vit seule et a à sa **charge** une ou plusieurs personnes; ou
  ([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 1583413)

- Total number of **dependents** paid
  Nombre total de personnes à **charge**
  ([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 7936363)

- The same applies to people in prison who have **dependents**, a situation that also primarily affects women.
  Il en va de même pour les personnes en prison qui ont des personnes à **charge**, une situation qui affecte également les femmes au premier chef.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1052042)

- lives as a single adult with one or more **dependents**; or
  qui vit seule et a à sa **charge** une ou plusieurs personnes, ou
  ([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 3335798)

## dépend

Used about 3 707 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 271 · legal and administrative ≈ 733 · UN documents ≈ 1 694). Forms: dépend, dépendantes, dépendants.

- She's **dependent** on her husband.
  Elle **dépend** de son mari.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1671857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1671857) [\#1674648](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1674648))

- We are therefore absolutely **dependent** on the honey bee.
  Nous sommes tout à fait **dépendants** des abeilles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1168800)

- b\*d depth **dependent** error, i.e. the sum of all depth **dependent** errors
  b\*d erreur dépendante de la profondeur, c’est-à-dire la somme de toutes les erreurs **dépendantes** de la profondeur,
  ([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 2620087)

- The consolidation of the recent hard-won peace is **dependent** on this.
  La consolidation de la paix récemment obtenue au prix d &apos; âpres efforts en **dépend**.
  ([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 14620758)

- She's **dependent** on her husband.
  Elle **dépend** de son époux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1671857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1671857) [\#1674649](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1674649))

## personnes

Used about 869 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 108 · legal and administrative ≈ 35 · UN documents ≈ 726).

- Children and the elderly, in particular, are urgently **dependent** on our help.
  Notre aide doit surtout profiter aux enfants et aux **personnes** âgées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1920326)

- For the Netherlands, it should be noted that under the General Surviving **Dependents**’ Insurance Act (Algemene Nabestaandenwet), the following persons are also regarded as married or spouses: single persons of the same or different sex permanently sharing a household, unless they are blood relations of first degree.
  Pour les Pays-Bas, il est à noter que, conformément à la loi portant régime général des pensions de survie (Algemene Nabestaandenwet), les **personnes** suivantes sont également considérées comme «mariées» ou comme «conjoints»: les personnes célibataires, de même sexe ou non, qui cohabitent de façon durable, sauf si elles sont unies par les liens du sang au premier degré.
  ([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 821987)

- Average number of **dependents** per worker
  Nombre moyen de **personnes**
  ([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 9131657)

- There are many people, lonely people in particular, who are very **dependent** on the animals with which they share their lives.
  De nombreuses **personnes**, particulièrement des personnes seules, dépendent énormément des animaux avec lesquels elles partagent leur vie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 448512)

- 69. UNODC currently works with some 40,000 people previously **dependent** on coca bush cultivation.
  69. À l &apos; heure actuelle, l &apos; ONUDC travaille avec environ 40 000 **personnes** qui dépendaient précédemment de la culture du cocaïer.
  ([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 17434968)

## More sentences

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

- We're **dependent** on each other.
  Nous dépendons l'une de l'autre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#6874219](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6874219) [\#3598635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3598635))

- We're **dependent** on each other.
  Nous dépendons les uns des autres.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#6874219](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6874219) [\#3598640](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3598640))

- We are **dependent** on each other.
  Nous dépendons l'un de l'autre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CC and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#263002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/263002) [\#3598634](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3598634))

## 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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