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# cohérence — French to English

How French *cohérence* 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: cohérence (40 796), cohérences (12). By style: everyday 2 · parliamentary 3 196 · legal and administrative 5 266 · UN documents 32 344.

## consistency

Used about 20 938 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 721 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 620 · UN documents ≈ 15 594). Forms: consistency, consistent. Meaning: [consistency in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/consistency/).

- Ton discours manquait un peu de **cohérence**.
  Your speech lacked some **consistency**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#1224240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224240) [\#1224247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224247))

- Nous devons faire preuve de **cohérence**.
  We have to act in a **consistent** way.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1674509)

- Les États membres assurent la **cohérence** entre:
  Member States shall ensure **consistency** between:
  ([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 3333324)

- iii) **Cohérence** et continuité des politiques minières;
  (iii) **Consistency** and constancy of mineral policies;
  ([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 1121105)

- Votre discours manquait un peu de **cohérence**.
  Your speech lacked some **consistency**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#1224240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224240) [\#1224248](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224248))

## coherence

Used about 15 584 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 983 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 317 · UN documents ≈ 13 284).

- Revenons sur la **cohérence**.
  Let us return to the subject of **coherence**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 726245)

- Faisabilité et **cohérence** interne du programme de travail.
  Feasibility and internal **coherence** of the work programme
  ([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 3123701)

- B. **Cohérence** au niveau régional
  B. **Coherence** at the regional level
  ([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 29599107)

- Nous avons également besoin de **cohérence** dans les États membres.
  We also need **coherence** in Member States.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1409918)

- **Cohérence** et qualité techniques de la proposition en relation avec le besoin spécifique concerné
  Technical **coherence** and quality of the proposal in relation to the specific need addressed
  ([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 4488872)

## ensure

Used about 110 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 110). Meaning: [ensure in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ensure/).

- La Commission et les États membres veillent à la **cohérence** de l'intervention du Fonds et de celle des États membres avec les actions, politiques et priorités de la Communauté.
  The Commission and the Member States shall **ensure** that assistance from the Fund and the Member States is consistent with the activities, policies and priorities of the Community.
  ([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 1148424)

## More sentences

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

- En conclusion, il convenait certes de surmonter les exemptions actuelles, mais on eût pu l'obtenir avec davantage de bon sens et, surtout, davantage de **cohérence**.
  In conclusion, we certainly needed to move on from the current derogations, but that could have been achieved with more meaningful and, above all, more coherent provisions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 474839)

- Alors, soit nous revoyons nos objectifs, soit nous nous efforçons, avec **cohérence**, de les atteindre.
  Therefore, either we change the goals or we must endeavour to pursue them consistently.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 422071)

- Ces réductions semblent radicales, mais nous pouvons y parvenir progressivement si nous agissons avec **cohérence**.
  This sounds drastic, but we can manage with a gradual change if we act consistently.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 620378)

## Grammar

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