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J'ai vécu dans la **pauvreté**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#1979236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1979236) [\#1979217](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1979217)) - The grace of her age was still struggling against the hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and **poverty**. La grâce de l'âge luttait encore contre la hideuse vieillesse anticipée de la débauche et de la **pauvreté**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15926) - Let him drink, and forget his **poverty**, and remember his misery no more. Qu’il boive et oublie sa **pauvreté**, Et qu’il ne se souvienne plus de ses peines. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 31:7) - We need to abolish **poverty** in the world. Nous devons mettre fin à la **pauvreté** dans le monde. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 91125) - Promoting social inclusion and combating **poverty**. Promouvoir l'inclusion sociale et lutter contre la **pauvreté**. ([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 3265270) ## développement Used about 7 950 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 7 950). - **Poverty** also bred social disruption, as in the case of Somalia, and contributed to environmental degradation, further reducing the possibilities of economic development. sociaux, comme la situation en Somalie en offre la preuve, et contribue à la dégradation de l ' environnement, ce qui réduit encore les possibilités de **développement** économique. ([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 871648) - Exhibit entitled " What Meets the Eye: Images of Rural **Poverty** " , organized by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), until 29 September 2003. Exposition intitulée " What Meets the Eye: Images of Rural Poverty " , organisée par le Fonds international de **développement** agricole (FIDA), jusqu ' au 29 septembre 2003. ([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 10909247) ## lutte Used about 56 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 56). - where applicable, specific policy measures or individual actions targeting energy **poverty**. le cas échéant, mesures de politique publique particulières ou actions spécifiques de **lutte** contre la précarité énergétique. ([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 4751376) - In Slovenia, the project helped to trigger a nationwide scheme addressing energy **poverty** in households. En Slovénie, le projet a contribué à faire naître un régime national de **lutte** contre la précarité énergétique dans les ménages. ([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 4852431) ## contre Used about 28 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 28). - While several Member States' LTRSs already address energy **poverty**, the EPBD now requires that LTRSs outline ‘relevant national actions that contribute to the alleviation of energy **poverty**’. Alors que plusieurs États membres luttent déjà **contre** la précarité énergétique, la DPEB exige désormais que les SRLT définissent des «actions nationales pertinentes qui contribuent à atténuer la précarité énergétique». ([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 4851996) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Poverty** is no disgrace. Être pauvre n'est pas déshonorant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Nylez and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#9266788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9266788) [\#844182](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/844182)) - About a billion people suffer from hunger and **poverty**. Environ un milliard de gens souffre de la faim et de la misère. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3699507](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3699507) [\#1614406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1614406)) - He pulled her out of **poverty**. Il l'a sortie de la misère. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Aghanim · checked, community translation · [\#13559856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13559856) [\#13555651](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13555651)) ## 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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