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# encouraged — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: encouraged (75 746), encourageds (4). By style: everyday 30 · literary 3 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 1 943 · legal and administrative 2 041 · UN documents 71 725.

## encouragé

Used about 47 157 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 295 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 701 · UN documents ≈ 44 138). Forms: encourager, encouragé, encouragée, encouragées, encouragés.

- Tom **encouraged** Mary.
  Tom a **encouragé** Mary.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#2236245](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2236245) [\#6472025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6472025))

- The senator was **encouraged**, and went on:—
  Le sénateur, **encouragé**, reprit:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 501)

- that is, that I with you may be **encouraged** in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
  ou plutôt, afin que nous soyons **encouragés** ensemble au milieu de vous par la foi qui nous est commune, à vous et à moi.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 1:12)

- Their efforts should be **encouraged** and supported.
  Leurs efforts doivent être **encouragés** et soutenus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 880581)

- Earlier application is **encouraged**.
  Une application anticipée est **encouragée**.
  ([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 745666)

## More sentences

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

- We are **encouraged** to use our imagination.
  On nous encourage à utiliser notre imagination.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#249003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249003) [\#1006065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1006065))

- The officer **encouraged** his men.
  L'officier encouragea ses hommes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by makarov and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#1008569](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1008569) [\#1008584](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1008584))

- My father **encouraged** me to study the piano.
  Mon père m'encourageait à apprendre le piano.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#319192](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/319192) [\#590636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/590636))

## 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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