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# augmenter — French to English

How French *augmenter* 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: augmentaient (644), augmentait (1 130), augmente (11 317), augmentent (5 289), augmenter (44 975), augmentes (1), augmentez (15), augmentons (119), augmenté (51 771), augmentée (2 453), augmentées (963), augmentés (1 138). By style: everyday 226 · literary 8 · biblical 27 · parliamentary 9 875 · legal and administrative 13 952 · UN documents 95 727.

## increase

Used about 79 756 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 63 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 6 621 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 464 · UN documents ≈ 62 599). Forms: increase, increased, increasing. Meaning: [increase in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/increase/).

- Ô Seigneur, **augmente** mon savoir.
  My Lord, **increase** my knowledge.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13938599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13938599) [\#13939148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13939148))

- Ne pouvait-il attendre la belle saison pour **augmenter** ses chances?»
  Couldn’t he have waited for the good season to **increase** his chances?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2281)

- Les apôtres dirent au Seigneur: **Augmente**-nous la foi.
  The apostles said to the Lord, “**Increase** our faith.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 17:5)

- N'**augmentez** pas la bureaucratie.
  Do not **increase** the amount of bureaucracy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1681979)

- La portée sera-t-elle **augmentée**?
  Will the scope be **increased**?
  ([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 5636422)

## per

Used about 4 402 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 68 · legal and administrative ≈ 65 · UN documents ≈ 4 268). Meaning: [per in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/per/).

- Durant les 10 dernières années, les prix ont **augmenté** de 50 pour cent.
  Prices in the last ten years have risen by fifty **per** cent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kjh and CM · checked, community translation · [\#8836910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8836910) [\#772471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/772471))

- Il faut **augmenter** le nombre de PC par étudiant dans les écoles.
  We must have more PCs at school **per** student.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 286923)

- Le contingent tarifaire pour le Chili **augmente** de 200 t par an.
  Tariff quota for Chile increases by 200 t **per** annum.
  ([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 4920271)

- Indemnités de fin de service **augmentées** du pourcentage discrétionnaire (50 %)
  - Termination indemnities plus the discretionary percentage (50 **per** cent)
  ([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 21223261)

- L'obésité infantile **augmente** de 2 % par an sur notre continent!
  Childhood obesity in Europe is growing by 2% **per** year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1162046)

## number

Used about 2 251 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 182 · legal and administrative ≈ 32 · UN documents ≈ 2 032). Meaning: [number in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/number/).

- Le nombre d'étudiants qui vont Outre-mer a **augmenté**.
  The **number** of students going overseas is growing.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and ariarin · checked, community translation · [\#9726795](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9726795) [\#1104048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1104048))

- Le nombre de victimes de cet esclavage moderne **augmente** chaque année.
  The **number** of victims of this modern form of slavery rises from year to year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1340538)

- tout cul de chalut dont le nombre de mailles de même dimension sur toute circonférence du cul **augmente** de l'avant vers l'arrière;
  any codend in which the **number** of equal sized meshes around any circumference of the codend increases from the front end to the rear end;
  ([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 769428)

- À l &apos; université de Malte, le nombre d &apos; étudiantes **augmente** depuis 1988.
  The **number** of female students at the University of Malta has been on the rise since 1988.
  ([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 10567638)

- Un temps chaud et humide **augmente** le nombre de crimes.
  Warm and humid weather increases the **number** of crimes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jio15 and CM · checked, community translation · [\#276792](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/276792) [\#746277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/746277))

## More sentences

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

- Le coût du carburant ne cesse d'**augmenter**.
  The cost of petrol keeps on going up.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Erwan29200 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#711597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/711597) [\#749471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749471))

- Le prix va bientôt **augmenter**.
  The price goes up soon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8973550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8973550) [\#8965527](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8965527))

- Le prix de l'essence ne cesse d'**augmenter**.
  The price of gas keeps going up.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#13812934](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13812934) [\#8628333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8628333))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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