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# existence — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: existence (51 364), existences (22). By style: everyday 67 · literary 13 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 3 180 · legal and administrative 7 860 · UN documents 40 265.

## existence

Used about 30 864 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 740 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 041 · UN documents ≈ 22 020).

- I thank you for your **existence**.
  Je te remercie de ton **existence**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aandrusiak and aandrusiak · checked, community translation · [\#493861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/493861) [\#493862](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/493862))

- In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of certain serious sides of **existence**.
  Dans ce trouble où était sa conscience, il ne songeait plus guère à de certains côtés sérieux de l'**existence**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14668)

- For years, the **existence** of a problem was simply denied.
  Pendant des années, on a tout simplement nié l' **existence** du problème.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 175638)

- **Existence** of State aid
  **Existence** d'une aide d'État
  ([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 788089)

- Its very **existence** is threatened by unilateralism.
  L &apos; unilatéralisme menace son **existence** même.
  ([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 8733690)

## More sentences

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

- The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-**existence** and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars.
  La relation entre l'Islam et l'Occident comprend des siècles de coexistence et de coopération, mais aussi de conflit et de guerres de religion.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by saeb and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#376849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/376849) [\#481572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/481572))

- It is the oldest wooden building in **existence**.
  C'est le plus ancien bâtiment en bois qui existe.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CC and jihaire · checked, community translation · [\#42468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42468) [\#429161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/429161))

- Sometimes I wonder if this world is just in someone's head, and he dreams us all into **existence**. Perhaps it's even me.
  Parfois, je me demande si ce monde est seulement dans la tête de quelqu'un et il nous invoque tous dans son rêve. Peut-être même est-ce moi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by saeb and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#497863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/497863) [\#929623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/929623))

## 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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