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# élargir — French to English

How French *élargir* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: élargir (30 467). By style: everyday 6 · literary 2 · parliamentary 1 616 · legal and administrative 621 · UN documents 28 222.

## expand

Used about 10 852 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 202 · legal and administrative ≈ 65 · UN documents ≈ 10 583). Forms: expand, expanding. Meaning: [expand in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/expand/).

- Le rayon de la raison doit à nouveau s'**élargir**.
  The ray of reason must **expand** again.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#4257301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4257301) [\#4257302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4257302))

- Je propose donc d'**élargir** un peu ce débat.
  I therefore suggest that we **expand** this debate a little further.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 951832)

- Actuellement, les entreprises de fret aérien sont en train d'**élargir** leurs capacités d'exploitation.
  Air freight carriers are **expanding** their operational capacities.
  ([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 1417049)

- Premièrement : Le PNUD entend contribuer à **élargir** et à renforcer le système national de suivi social.
  First: UNDP will help to **expand** and strengthen the national social monitoring system.
  ([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 11989817)

- Est-il nécessaire d'**élargir** la connaissance de l'Homme à travers l'exploration de l'espace ?
  Is it necessary to **expand** human knowledge with space exploration?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and doswans · checked, community translation · [\#330617](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/330617) [\#3963](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3963))

## widening

Used about 3 212 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 168 · legal and administrative ≈ 104 · UN documents ≈ 2 940). Meaning: [widening in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/widening/).

- Je pense qu'il s'agit d'une manière remarquable d'**élargir** l'espace européen.
  I believe it is a very important as a means of **widening** the European space.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1459279)

- PROPAGER L'EXCELLENCE ET **ÉLARGIR** LA PARTICIPATION
  SPREADING EXCELLENCE AND **WIDENING** 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 3061835)

- **Élargir** l &apos; accès au logement;
  **Widening** access to housing;
  ([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 9038864)

- Va-t-on **élargir** le champ d'examen pour tenir compte de cette sorte de produits ?
  Is there going to be a **widening** of the area of scrutiny which will take into account products of this sort?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 30462)

- **Élargir** et renforcer les partenariats
  **Widening** and strengthening partnerships
  ([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 23084762)

## extend

Used about 2 739 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 269 · legal and administrative ≈ 116 · UN documents ≈ 2 352). Meaning: [extend in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/extend/).

- Ne nous lassons pas de le répéter, songer, avant tout aux foules déshéritées et douloureuses, les soulager, les aérer, les éclairer, les aimer, leur **élargir** magnifiquement l'horizon, leur prodiguer sous toutes les formes l'éducation, leur offrir l'exemple du labeur, jamais l'exemple de l'oisiveté, amoindrir le poids du fardeau individuel en accroissant la notion du but universel, limiter la pauvreté sans limiter la richesse, créer de vastes champs d'activité publique et populaire, avoir comme Briarée cent mains à tendre de toutes parts aux accablés et aux faibles, employer la puissance collective à ce grand devoir d'ouvrir des ateliers à tous les bras, des écoles à toutes les aptitudes et des laboratoires à toutes les intelligences, augmenter le salaire, diminuer la peine, balancer le doit et l'avoir, c'est-à-dire proportionner la jouissance à l'effort et l'assouvissement au besoin, en un mot, faire dégager à l'appareil social, au profit de ceux qui souffrent et de ceux qui ignorent, plus de clarté et plus de bien-être, c'est là, que les âmes sympathiques ne l'oublient pas, la première des obligations fraternelles, c'est, que les coeurs égoïstes le sachent, la première des nécessités politiques.
  Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to **extend** in all directions to the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21641)

- (DE) Monsieur le Président en exercice du Conseil, je voudrais **élargir** un peu la question.
  (DE) Mr President-in-Office, I should like to **extend** the question a little.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 945004)

- Pour pouvoir **élargir** le RPMC aux maladies rares, des données supplémentaires seront collectées et analysées.
  In order to **extend** the PRCM to form a rare diseases registry, additional data will be collected and analysed.
  ([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 3778544)

- La République tchèque s &apos; efforce d &apos; **élargir** sa coopération avec le PNUE au Conseil d &apos; administration duquel elle a présenté sa candidature.
  The Czech Republic sought to **extend** its cooperation with UNEP, and was submitting its candidacy for the UNEP Governing Council.
  ([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 1729288)

- Il contient également des mesures pour **élargir** l'espace Schengen à la Roumanie et à la Bulgarie.
  There are also plans to **extend** the Schengen area to include Romania and Bulgaria.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1475260)

## broaden

Used about 2 632 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 202 · legal and administrative ≈ 78 · UN documents ≈ 2 352).

- Je veux juste **élargir** ma compréhension du monde.
  I just want to **broaden** my understanding of the world.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12255672](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12255672) [\#12254822](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12254822))

- La réflexion au Conseil européen doit donc s’**élargir**.
  The European Council must therefore **broaden** its thinking.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 688364)

- **Élargir** le dialogue avec les parties prenantes sur les questions de fond auxquelles l'OIAC est confrontée pendant une période de transition institutionnelle
  To **broaden** engagement with stakeholders on substantive issues facing the OPCW during a period of institutional transition
  ([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 4810351)

- ii) D &apos; **élargir** la gamme des utilisations des produits de base, en les soumettant à des opérations de transformation;
  (ii) **Broaden** the utilization spectrum of commodities through their transformation;
  ([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 540761)

- Mais le Parlement européen désire **élargir** cet objectif et partant rendre le programme plus équilibré.
  But the European Parliament wishes to **broaden** that objective and so make the programme more balanced.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1910456)

## scope

Used about 1 896 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 67 · legal and administrative ≈ 65 · UN documents ≈ 1 764). Meaning: [scope in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/scope/).

- Les conclusions de Tampere étaient que nous devions **élargir** le problème, en d' autres termes qu' il faut également reprendre d' autres crimes graves.
  The Tampere conclusions were in favour of broadening the **scope**, in other words for other, serious crimes to fall within its scope.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 249760)

- la possibilité d’**élargir** le champ d’application du présent règlement pour y inclure:
  the possible extension of the **scope** of this Regulation to include:
  ([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 3270353)

- Pour lutter contre les inégalités, il faut **élargir** la portée des partenariats mondiaux pour le développement.
  95. Addressing inequality requires broadening the **scope** of the global partnership for development.
  ([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 27065819)

- Il s'agit, ensuite, d'**élargir** les responsabilités à l'ensemble des intervenants de la chaîne des transports et, enfin, d'étendre les conventions aux substances nocives et dangereuses.
  Next, the **scope** of liability should be widened to include all those involved in the transport chain. Lastly, the conventions should be extended to include dangerous substances other than oil.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 205670)

- La Commission peut adapter les annexes I à IV sans **élargir** le champ d'application de la présente directive.
  The Commission may adapt Annexes I to IV without broadening the **scope** of this Directive.
  ([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 1815422)

## More sentences

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

- Des agents de renfort, tels que le sable, sont ajoutés à l'eau, pour **élargir** les fissures nouvellement créées.
  Proppants, such as sand, are added to the water to prop open the newly created cracks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and halfb1t · checked, community translation · [\#2125729](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2125729) [\#2126844](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2126844))

- La télévision nous aide à **élargir** notre savoir.
  Television helps us widen our knowledge.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#39231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/39231) [\#800516](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/800516))

- Comment réagir aux défis de l’époque actuelle ? Devons-nous continuer à **élargir** notre monde ou revenir aux conforts anciens : chauvinisme, racisme, sexisme, etc. ?
  How do we react to the challenges of the current time? Should we continue to enlarge our world or return to the old comforts: chauvinism, racism, sexism, etc.?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12255678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12255678) [\#12254799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12254799))

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