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# existing — English to French

How English *existing* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations 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: existing (211 010). By style: everyday 13 · literary 1 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 9 172 · legal and administrative 24 137 · UN documents 177 686.

## existant

Used about 86 547 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 6 688 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 617 · UN documents ≈ 59 229). Forms: existant, existante, existantes, existants.

- Scientists challenge **existing** ideas.
  Les scientifiques remettent en cause les idées **existantes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11569493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11569493) [\#11838211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11838211))

- The system of sewers **existing** at that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven leagues.
  Le système d'égouts **existant** à cette époque, mis bout à bout, eût donné une longueur de onze lieues.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27634)

- who, **existing** in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
  lequel, **existant** en forme de Dieu, n’a point regardé comme une proie à arracher d’être égal avec Dieu,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 2:6)

- On no account must **existing** rights be curtailed.
  Le texte ne peut en aucun cas aboutir à une réduction des droits **existants**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1218434)

- **Existing** registered geographical indications
  Indications géographiques enregistrées **existantes**
  ([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 4945976)

## vigueur

Used about 40 720 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 40 720).

- Central availability of monitoring data on non-compliance with **existing** standards (if any);
  h) Centralisation des données de surveillance sur le non-respect des normes en **vigueur** (s &apos; il y a lieu);
  ([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 20855224)

- The **existing** legislation on the promotion of Romansh and Italian has been incorporated in the new Languages Act.
  Les dispositions en **vigueur** visant à promouvoir le romanche et l &apos; italien sont intégrées dans la nouvelle loi sur les langues.
  ([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 20756727)

- The standards set forth in the Convention would be taken into account in any future amendment of **existing** laws.
  Les normes prescrites dans la Convention sur les travailleurs migrants seront prises en compte lors de la modification des lois en **vigueur**.
  ([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 26055464)

- Most of the elements for such an approach were already incorporated in **existing** ILO and United Nations Conventions.
  La plupart des éléments d &apos; un tel cadre sont déjà contenus dans les conventions internationales en **vigueur** de l &apos; OIT et de l &apos; Organisation des Nations Unies.
  ([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 10253346)

- 7. Please state what concrete measures have been taken by the State party to eliminate **existing** sexist female stereotypes.
  7. Veuillez dire quelles sont les mesures prises concrètement pour éliminer les stéréotypes sexistes en **vigueur** à l &apos; encontre des filles dans l &apos; 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 24358591)

## More sentences

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

- **Existing** legislation does not take diversity of races into account.
  La législation actuelle ne tient pas compte de la diversité des races.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Selenyt · checked, community translation · [\#239536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239536) [\#14968](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14968))

- As machines progressively outperform humans in nonphysical and even physical activities, humans will realize that just being or **existing** is the key to life.
  À mesure que les machines surpassent progressivement les humains dans les activités non physiques, voire physiques, les humains se rendront compte que le simple fait d’être ou d’exister est la clé de la vie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and nonong · checked, community translation · [\#12453074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12453074) [\#12453075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12453075))

- The previous criteria for support of these areas must be modified so that they reflect actually **existing** handicaps.
  Les critères de soutien à ces régions utilisés précédemment doivent être modifiés afin de refléter les handicaps réels.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1378387)

## Grammar

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