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# represent — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: represent (39 027), represents (35 482). By style: everyday 32 · literary 7 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 10 236 · legal and administrative 7 458 · UN documents 56 775.

## représente

Used about 31 079 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 5 118 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 827 · UN documents ≈ 20 108). Forms: représente, représentent, représenter.

- What does this painting **represent**?
  Que **représente** ce tableau ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2958878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2958878) [\#3655185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3655185))

- At two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris’ sewers of the present day **represent** forty-eight millions.
  À deux cents francs le mètre, les soixante lieues d'égouts du Paris actuel **représentent** quarante-huit millions.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27545)

- It **represents** an Austrian exception.
  Cela **représente** une exception autrichienne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 480360)

- The code ‘ZZ’ **represents** “other origins”.
  Le code “ZZ” **représente** “autres origines”.
  ([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 4361497)

- This figure **represents** 99 per cent of the target population.
  Ce chiffre **représente** 99 pour cent de la population cible.
  ([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 15232371)

## constitue

Used about 4 693 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 066 · legal and administrative ≈ 78 · UN documents ≈ 3 548).

- Understood in its totality, the spectacle is both the result and the goal of the dominant mode of production. It is not a mere decoration added to the real world. It is the very heart of this real society's unreality. In all of its particular manifestations — news, propaganda, advertising, entertainment — the spectacle **represents** the dominant model of life. It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choices that have already been made in the sphere of production and in the consumption implied by that production. In both form and content the spectacle serves as a total justification of the conditions and goals of the existing system. The spectacle also **represents** the constant presence of this justification since it monopolizes the majority of the time spent outside the production process.
  Le spectacle, compris dans sa totalité, est à la fois le résultat et le projet du mode de production existant. Il n'est pas un supplément au monde réel, sa décoration surajoutée. Il est le cœur de l'irréalisme de la société réelle. Sous toutes ses formes particulières, information ou propagande, publicité ou consommation directe de divertissements, le spectacle **constitue** le modèle présent de la vie socialement dominante. Il est l'affirmation omniprésente du choix déjà fait dans la production, et sa consommation corollaire. Forme et contenu du spectacle sont identiquement la justification totale des conditions et des fins du système existant. Le spectacle est aussi la présence permanente de cette justification, en tant qu'occupation de la part principale du temps vécu hors de la production moderne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6364117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6364117) [\#6364126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6364126))

- We feel that this resolution **represents** an abuse of procedure.
  Nous estimons que cette résolution **constitue** un abus de procédure.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 918182)

- The contract thus **represents** circumstantial evidence that the trader’s functions are similar to those of an agent working on a commission basis.
  Le contrat **constitue** donc une preuve indirecte qui permet de présumer que les fonctions du négociant sont assimilables à celles d’un agent travaillant sur la base de commissions.
  ([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 2739937)

- This Government initiative **represents** a real contribution to the war on poverty.
  Cette initiative du gouvernement **constitue** un véritable appoint dans la lutte contre la pauvreté .
  ([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 26233791)

- This new amending directive certainly **represents** great progress.
  Assurément, cette nouvelle directive modificatrice **constitue** un progrès important.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1805157)

## More sentences

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

- The red lines on the map **represent** a railway.
  Les lignes rouges sur la carte symbolisent une voie ferrée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by saasmath and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#470840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/470840) [\#561379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/561379))

- The blue lines on the map **represent** rivers.
  Les lignes bleues sur la carte désignent des fleuves.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#277229](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277229) [\#129314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129314))

- Whose firm do you **represent**?
  Quelle entreprise représentez-vous ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#2253073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2253073) [\#3718849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3718849))

## 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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