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Ça **aide** un peu. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5158733](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5158733) [\#5289395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5289395)) - “**Help**!” cried old Fauchelevent. --À l'**aide**! criait le vieux Fauchelevent. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3811) - Let your hand be ready to **help** me, for I have chosen your precepts. Que ta main me soit en **aide**! Car j’ai choisi tes ordonnances. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:173) - I believe that this may **help** the process. Et j'estime que cela peut **aider** ce processus. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1916229) - **Help** towards the cost of housing. **Aide** aux frais de logement. ([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 1472912) ## contribue Used about 29 934 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 45 · parliamentary ≈ 6 326 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 464 · UN documents ≈ 22 100). Forms: contribue, contribuer. - Education **helps** to mold character. L'éducation **contribue** à façonner le caractère. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by contour and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#19116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19116) [\#9919335](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9919335)) - It also **helps** to protect the landscape. Il **contribue** aussi à protéger les paysages. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1103501) - **Helps** to maintain good skin hydration **Contribue** à maintenir une bonne hydratation de la peau ([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 3028866) - It **helps** in making the State accountable. Une telle démarche **contribue** à rendre l ' État comptable de ses actes. ([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 15819541) - This, too, **helps** to ensure road safety. Tout ceci **contribue** également à garantir la sécurité routière. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1252336) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I heard a cry for **help**. J'ai entendu un appel au secours. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and subaya · checked, community translation · [\#267189](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/267189) [\#6320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6320)) - Massages **help** me to feel relaxed. Les massages m'aident à me sentir détendu. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#14036777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14036777) [\#14036778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14036778)) - What can I **help** you with? Que puis-je pour votre service ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bluepie88 and Sisyphe · checked, community translation · [\#666040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/666040) [\#2287847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2287847)) ## 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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