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Forms: encourage, encourager. - I **encourage** you to do so. Je t'**encourage** à le faire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5187463](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5187463) [\#7849329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7849329)) - So the carpenter **encourages** the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer **encourages** him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter. Le sculpteur **encourage** le fondeur; Celui qui polit au marteau encourage celui qui frappe sur l’enclume; Il dit de la soudure: Elle est bonne! Et il fixe l’idole avec des clous, pour qu’elle ne branle pas. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 41:7) - Finally, the Council **encourages** the Commission to Enfin, le Conseil **encourage** la Commission à: ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 466405) - Chapter VIII **encourages** financial and fiscal support to these priority themes. Le chapitre VIII **encourage** le soutien financier et fiscal à ces thèmes prioritaires. ([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 4720707) - 35. The Committee **encourages** the State party: 35. Le Comité **encourage** l ' État partie: ([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 10477084) ## état Used about 4 386 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 79 · legal and administrative ≈ 41 · UN documents ≈ 4 265). - The Van Lancker proposal does not impose anything on any Member States, but merely **encourages** us to learn from each other in order to develop the best possible practice. La proposition Van Lancker n'impose rien à aucun **État** membre ; elle essaie simplement de stimuler l'échange en vue de développer les meilleures pratiques. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 348165) - This might reduce the incentives for private investors to provide funding to eligible undertakings and **encourage** them to wait until the State provides aid for such investments. Ces derniers peuvent, de ce fait, être moins enclins à financer les entreprises admissibles et être incités à attendre que l'**État** octroie des aides pour de tels investissements. ([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 5661604) - The aim of the Plan is to **encourage** the mainstreaming of a gender focus in the public policies of the State. Ce plan a pour objectif de promouvoir l ' égalité des sexes dans l ' ensemble des politiques menées par l ' **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 27730073) - The Committee **encourages** the State party to take account of its general comment No. 1 (2010) on migrant domestic workers. Le Comité engage l ' **État** partie à tenir compte de son Observation générale no 1 (2010) sur les travailleurs migrants domestiques. ([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 29491558) - The Committee **encourages** the State party to bring its legislation in conformity with the Convention, and promptly adopt a new Migration Code. 13. Le Comité invite l ' **État** partie à mettre sa législation en conformité avec la Convention et à adopter un nouveau Code des migrations dans les meilleurs délais. ([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 20578296) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - And you **encourage** him? Et vous l'encouragez ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#434220](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/434220) [\#1516448](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1516448)) - **Encourage** religious tolerance in India. Encouragez la tolérance religieuse en Inde. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#11391076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11391076) [\#12494031](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12494031)) - Researchers in AI, artificial intelligence, must take care to **encourage** "friendly" AI, not "unfriendly" AI. Les chercheurs en IA (intelligence artificielle) doivent veiller à favoriser une IA « amicale » et non une IA « hostile ». ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10559331](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10559331) [\#10560171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10560171)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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