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# giving — English to French

How English *giving* 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: giving (45 628), givings (1). By style: everyday 212 · literary 21 · biblical 38 · parliamentary 7 039 · legal and administrative 4 269 · UN documents 34 050.

## donnant

Used about 12 823 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 53 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 760 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 067 · UN documents ≈ 9 931). Forms: donnant, donne, donner.

- He is **giving** me a hard time.
  Il me **donne** du mal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#284805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/284805) [\#1067566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1067566))

- CHAPTER VI—MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF **GIVING** COSETTE HIS ADDRESS
  Marius redevient réel au point de **donner** son adresse à Cosette
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22186)

- God, who knows the heart, testified about them, **giving** them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
  Et Dieu, qui connaît les cœurs, leur a rendu témoignage, en leur **donnant** le Saint-Esprit comme à nous;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 15:8)

- It is just a question of actually **giving** it the resources.
  Reste à lui en **donner** véritablement les moyens.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1392948)

- Any other device **giving** equivalent results may be used.
  Tout autre dispositif **donnant** des résultats équivalents est acceptable.
  ([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 5431519)

## More sentences

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

- I can't believe you're **giving** up.
  Je n'arrive pas à croire que tu abandonnes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1950924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1950924) [\#1950996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1950996))

- I'm not **giving** an inch.
  Je ne céderai pas d'un pouce.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3151394](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3151394) [\#10623412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10623412))

- When is he **giving** it to us?
  Quand est-ce qu'il nous le donnera ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · [\#12247900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12247900) [\#12043415](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12043415))

## 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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