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# encouraging — English to French

How English *encouraging* 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: encouraging (41 463). By style: everyday 13 · parliamentary 3 312 · legal and administrative 1 148 · UN documents 36 990.

## encourageant

Used about 31 448 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 2 208 · legal and administrative ≈ 717 · UN documents ≈ 28 513). Forms: encourage, encourageant, encourageantes, encourager.

- That's very **encouraging**.
  C'est très **encourageant**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and LoveWindPower · checked, community translation · [\#2251308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251308) [\#4591434](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4591434))

- On the whole, this is a very **encouraging** report.
  Dans l'ensemble, il s'agit d'un rapport très **encourageant**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 944160)

- **encouraging** the development of tourism.
  **encourager** le développement du tourisme.
  ([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 779932)

- Another suggestion consists in **encouraging** and guiding research.
  Autre mesure suggerée, structurer et **encourager** la recherche.
  ([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 19147476)

- Dad's always **encouraging** him.
  Papa l'**encourage** toujours.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#510166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/510166) [\#590224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/590224))

## More sentences

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

- I want to draw your attention toward last quarter's results which are very **encouraging**.
  Je tiens à attirer votre attention sur les résultats du dernier trimestre qui sont très encourageants.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#567053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/567053) [\#566596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/566596))

- After the **encouraging** preliminary results, the mood at campaign headquarters was one of cautious optimism.
  Après les résultats préliminaires encourageants, l'ambiance au siège de la campagne était empreinte d'un optimisme prudent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6990753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6990753) [\#8571912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8571912))

- Everyone knows that he's no saint. By defending him, we'd be accepting and **encouraging** his views.
  Chacun sait que ce n'est pas un saint. En le défendant, nous accepterions et encouragerions ses points de vue.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1239272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1239272) [\#1240701](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1240701))

## Grammar

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