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# participate — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: participate (104 489), participates (6 560). By style: everyday 44 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 3 457 · legal and administrative 6 953 · UN documents 100 593.

## participe

Used about 89 576 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 377 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 432 · UN documents ≈ 81 732). Forms: participation, participe, participent, participer.

- Anybody can **participate**.
  Tout le monde peut **participer**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#533089](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/533089) [\#1152330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1152330))

- for he who welcomes him **participates** in his evil deeds.
  car celui qui lui dit: Salut! **Participe** à ses mauvaises œuvres.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2JO 1:11)

- Bulgaria actively **participates** in this network.
  La Bulgarie **participe** activement à ce réseau.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1300968)

- Opening of tenders and requests to **participate**
  Ouverture des offres et demandes de **participation**
  ([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 2747898)

- It **participates** in the TOXO programme.
  Il **participe** au programme TOXO.
  ([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 13433552)

## More sentences

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

- If you **participate** in a decathlon you'll be throwing a discus at some point.
  Si tu participes à un décathlon, tu lanceras un disque à un moment donné.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#733779](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/733779) [\#800739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/800739))

- She intends to **participate** in a beauty contest.
  Elle a l'intention de prendre part à un concours de beauté.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1224914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224914) [\#1224922](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224922))

- I'm going to **participate** in the marathon.
  Je participerai au marathon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and olivette · checked, community translation · [\#13487398](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13487398) [\#1821600](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1821600))

## 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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