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By style: everyday 9 · literary 5 · parliamentary 1 915 · legal and administrative 1 989 · UN documents 40 585. ## engager Used about 3 383 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 339 · legal and administrative ≈ 83 · UN documents ≈ 2 959). - Intelligence is the ability to understand complex ideas, to adapt effectively to the environment, to learn from experience, to **engage** in various forms of reasoning, and to overcome obstacles. L'intelligence est la capacité de comprendre des idées complexes, de s'adapter efficacement à l'environnement, d'apprendre de l'expérience, de s'**engager** dans diverses formes de raisonnement et de surmonter les obstacles. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10464606](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10464606) [\#10464611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10464611)) - We must **engage** in a wholehearted and unrelenting attack on these threats to our society. Nous devons **engager** un combat sans pitié contre ces fléaux qui menacent notre société. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1619640) - Written assessments on how best to **engage** with potential international Code of Conduct stakeholders. Évaluations écrites sur la manière la plus efficace d’**engager** le dialogue avec des parties prenantes potentielles au code de conduite international; ([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 2506484) - He was unwilling to **engage** in any further discussion of the matter. Il ne souhaite s ' **engager** dans aucune nouvelle discussion sur cette affaire. ([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 16691867) - The attacks of September 11th, 2001 and the continued efforts of these extremists to **engage** in violence against civilians has led some in my country to view Islam as inevitably hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human rights. Les attaques du 11 septembre 2001 et les efforts continus de ces extrémistes pour **engager** la violence contre les civils, a conduit certains, dans mon pays, à considérer l'Islam comme irrémédiablement hostile, non seulement à l'Amérique et aux pays occidentaux, mais aussi aux droits de l'homme. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by saeb and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#376857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/376857) [\#481592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/481592)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - She wants to **engage** in teaching. Elle veut se lancer dans l'enseignement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#313261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/313261) [\#13389827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13389827)) - I don't **engage** in idle speculation. Je ne m'implique pas dans de vaines spéculations. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2361154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2361154) [\#10346628](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10346628)) - I have no time to **engage** in gossip. Je n'ai pas le temps de m'occuper des ragots. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and franzmimm · checked, community translation · [\#26633](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/26633) [\#442073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/442073)) ## 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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