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# participating — English to French

How English *participating* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: participating (58 884), participatings (1). By style: everyday 11 · parliamentary 1 340 · legal and administrative 8 420 · UN documents 49 114.

## participant

Used about 31 933 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 670 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 702 · UN documents ≈ 24 557). Forms: participant, participants, participer.

- I tried to dissuade him from **participating** in the project.
  J'ai essayé de le dissuader de **participer** au projet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Ceriz · checked, community translation · [\#5155129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5155129) [\#5156462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5156462))

- The stronger the position of the **participating** countries, the stronger the euro will be.
  Plus la position des pays **participants** devient forte, plus l'euro sera fort.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 14999)

- Number of holdings **participating** in the actions
  Nombre d’exploitations **participant** aux actions
  ([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 2392238)

- Payable to other funds **participating** in the cash pool
  Dû aux autres fonds **participant** à la trésorerie commune
  ([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 25252422)

- What counts the most in war isn't winning, it's not **participating**.
  Ce qui importe le plus, dans les guerres, ce n'est pas de gagner, mais de ne pas **participer**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#11612657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11612657) [\#4434667](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4434667))

## participent

Used about 5 428 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 140 · legal and administrative ≈ 172 · UN documents ≈ 5 116).

- “We're anticipating that fantasy football is going to cost employers this year around $9 billion in lost wages being paid to workers that are otherwise being unproductive **participating** in fantasy football activities in the office when normally they would be working,” says Andrew Challenger, vice president of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
  « Nous estimons que le fantasy football entraînera cette année un manque à gagner d'environ 9 milliards de dollars en salaires versés à des employés qui, autrement, sont improductifs quand ils **participent** à des parties de fantasy football au bureau au lieu de travailler, » déclare Andrew Challenger, vice-président du cabinet de réinsertion professionnelle Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#8181742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8181742) [\#8986334](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8986334))

- In addition, the following third countries are **participating**: Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Moldova and Ukraine.
  En outre, les pays tiers suivants y **participent**: Croatie, Serbie, Bosnie-et-Herzégovine, Monténégro, Moldavie et Ukraine.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1331230)

- When **participating** in the activities of the Investment Committee, its members shall perform their duties impartially and in the sole interest of the InvestEU Fund.
  Lorsqu'ils **participent** aux activités du comité d'investissement, ses membres s'acquittent de leurs tâches d'une manière impartiale et dans le seul intérêt du Fonds InvestEU.
  ([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 5402265)

- There are now 31 university chairs **participating** in this initiative.
  Aujourd &apos; hui, 31 titulaires de chaires universitaires **participent** à cette initiative.
  ([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 21579949)

- Our latest data on SME participation in FP7 indicates that a total of 2 431 SMEs are now **participating** in FP7 signed grant agreements.
  Nos dernières données relatives à la participation des PME au PC7 indiquent qu'un total de 2 431 PME **participent** actuellement à des accords de subvention signés du PC7.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1253108)

## More sentences

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

- I'm **participating** in a sports competition.
  Je participe à une compétition sportive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#12197370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12197370) [\#1084939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1084939))

- Why are you not **participating** yet?
  Pourquoi ne participez-vous pas encore ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by josivangoncalves and josivangoncalves · checked, community translation · [\#8222043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8222043) [\#8222302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8222302))

- Anna is **participating** in the charity marathon.
  Anne participe au marathon caritable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13908015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13908015) [\#13908014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13908014))

## 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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