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# accroître — French to English

How French *accroître* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: accroître (92 846). By style: everyday 14 · literary 2 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 4 484 · legal and administrative 4 321 · UN documents 84 021.

## increase

Used about 55 621 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 270 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 331 · UN documents ≈ 49 012). Forms: increase, increased, increasing. Meaning: [increase in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/increase/).

- Si tu nourris ton chien correctement, tu peux **accroître** sa durée de vie.
  If you feed your dog properly, you can **increase** his lifespan.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#898553](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/898553) [\#1402966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1402966))

- Sa stupeur ne fit que s'en **accroître**.
  This only caused an **increase** of his stupor.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5044)

- Mme Ulvskog, de Suède, propose d'**accroître** les dépenses.
  Mrs Ulvskog from Sweden proposes **increased** spending.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1393306)

- **accroître** la sécurité de l’approvisionnement,
  **increasing** security of supply,
  ([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 5633621)

- Ces mesures semblent contribuer assez efficacement à **accroître** le recyclage.
  These policies appear to be fairly effective in **increasing** recycling.
  ([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 22868334)

## enhance

Used about 16 301 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 187 · legal and administrative ≈ 360 · UN documents ≈ 15 754). Meaning: [enhance in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/enhance/).

- Nous devons en outre **accroître** la productivité en investissant davantage dans la connaissance, l’innovation et le capital humain.
  We also have to **enhance** productivity through greater investment in knowledge, innovation and people.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 656823)

- Le projet d’investissement contribuera également à **accroître** le potentiel régional en capital humain.
  The investment project will also contribute to **enhance** the regional human capital potential.
  ([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 2523435)

- Ils peuvent contribuer à **accroître** l &apos; autorité du droit.
  The media can help to **enhance** the authority of the law.
  ([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 18056299)

- Au sein des institutions, nous devons commencer à faire preuve de la même flexibilité si nous voulons **accroître** la crédibilité de ces institutions.
  We in the institutions need to start showing similar flexibility if we are to **enhance** the credibility of our institutions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 428883)

- Des mesures sont prises pour **accroître** l'efficacité du système judiciaire et renforcer la lutte contre la corruption.
  Measures shall be taken to **enhance** the efficiency of the judicial system and to upgrade the fight against corruption.
  ([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 3811387)

## improve

Used about 5 431 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 180 · UN documents ≈ 5 251). Meaning: [improve in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/improve/).

- Améliorer la capacité d'adaptation des travailleurs et des entreprises et **accroître** la flexibilité du marché du travail
  **Improve** adaptability of workers and enterprises and the flexibility of the labour market
  ([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 835214)

- Mesures prévues pour **accroître** la rentabilité des activités commerciales
  Proposed measures to **improve** the profitability of the
  ([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 8509991)

- responsabiliser et associer les patients de manière à **accroître** la qualité et à renforcer la sécurité des soins reçus.
  empower and involve patients in order to **improve** the safety and good quality of the care they receive.
  ([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 3132603)

- Le Conseil prie le Secrétaire général d’étudier les moyens d’**accroître** les ressources logistiques disponibles pour les activités de maintien de la paix en Afrique.
  “The Council requests the Secretary-General to study ways to **improve** the availability of logistics for peacekeeping efforts in Africa.
  ([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 5684926)

- En 2005, on a créé le réseau national de centres pour la violence familiale afin de permettre une réaction intégrée à la violence familiale et d &apos; **accroître** les ressources existantes.
  In 2005 the National Network of Domestic Violence Centres was set up to provide an integrated response to cases of domestic violence and **improve** on existing resources.
  ([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 18751162)

## More sentences

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

- La consommation ostentatoire de biens de grande valeur est un moyen pour le gentilhomme oisif d'**accroître** sa bonne réputation.
  Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#425388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/425388) [\#425461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/425461))

- Si vous ne fumez pas, vous pouvez **accroître** votre espérance de vie.
  If you do not smoke, you can extend your life.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by maydoo and hoffmania · checked, community translation · [\#3378500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3378500) [\#3373230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3373230))

- Un aménagement des combles peut **accroître** considérablement la valeur d'une propriété.
  A loft conversion can add considerable value to a property.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Vanilla · checked, community translation · [\#3151942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3151942) [\#9854083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9854083))

## Grammar

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