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# consiste — French to English

How French *consiste* 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: consiste (47 746). By style: everyday 61 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 5 910 · legal and administrative 5 100 · UN documents 36 666.

## consists

Used about 5 907 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 246 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 063 · UN documents ≈ 4 583).

- Le vrai bonheur **consiste** à désirer peu.
  True happiness **consists** of desiring little.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Shiawase · checked, community translation · [\#269564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/269564) [\#920485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/920485))

- Or la politique actuelle, qui **consiste** à privatiser à tout va les secteurs publics, est exactement l'inverse.
  The current policy, however, which **consists** of privatising public sectors left, right and centre, is exactly the opposite.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 365513)

- La facilité de garantie de prêts **consiste** en:
  The LGF **consists** of:
  ([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 4476575)

- Le filet **consiste** en un seul muscle, intact, avec son tendon.
  The inner fillet **consists** of a single intact muscle with the embedded tendon.
  ([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 15493716)

- La foi **consiste** à croire ce que la raison ne croit pas.
  Faith **consists** in believing what reason cannot.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#2885620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2885620) [\#2885615](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2885615))

## most

Used about 3 425 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 369 · UN documents ≈ 3 056). Meaning: [most in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/most/).

- L'un des moyens les plus efficaces d'enrayer le terrorisme **consiste** à en éliminer les causes.
  One of the **most** effective ways of combating terrorism is to eliminate its causes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1133476)

- L &apos; assistance fournie **consiste** le plus souvent en courtes visites (d &apos; une ou deux journées) à l &apos; OFT de responsables étrangers.
  The assistance takes many forms, the **most** common being short (one— or two—day) visits to the OFT by overseas officials.
  ([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 5485057)

- L'une des tâches les plus importantes de l'UE **consiste** à veiller à l'égalité des conditions dans lesquelles s'inscrit la concurrence.
  One of the **most** important tasks of the EU is to defend competition on equal terms.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1729954)

- Comme l &apos; ont indiqué plusieurs autres intervenants, la tâche la plus urgente **consiste** à présent à préparer les élections de novembre 2008.
  42. As mentioned by several other speakers, the final preparations for the November 2008 elections were now the **most** urgent task.
  ([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 19489371)

- La méthode la plus efficace pour diminuer les émissions de dioxyde de carbone **consiste** à utiliser davantage les énergies nucléaire et hydro-électrique.
  The **most** obvious ways of reducing carbon dioxide emissions are the increased use of nuclear and hydro-electric power.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1769809)

## bat

Used about 744 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 744). Meaning: [bat in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/bat/).

- La MTD **consiste** à utiliser des systèmes d'enfournement produisant peu d'émissions pour le chargement des chambres du four à coke.
  **BAT** is to charge coke oven chambers with emission-reduced charging systems.
  ([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 2494301)

- Afin de réduire au minimum la consommation de calcaire, la MTD **consiste** à utiliser une ou plusieurs des techniques suivantes:
  In order to minimise limestone consumption, **BAT** is to use one or a combination of the following techniques:
  ([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 2784350)

- La MTD **consiste** à réduire les émissions de NOX du four de calcination du lubrifiant en contrôlant et/ou en modifiant la combustion.
  **BAT** is to reduce NOX emissions from the lubricant burn-off oven by applying combustion control and/or modifications
  ([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 2493474)

- Afin de réduire les émissions de NOx d'un four à chaux, la MTD **consiste** à appliquer une combinaison des techniques énumérées ci-dessous.
  In order to reduce NOx emissions from a lime kiln, **BAT** is to apply a combination of the techniques given below.
  ([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 3158428)

- Afin de réduire les émissions dues au traitement des écumes/crasses, la MTD **consiste** à appliquer une ou plusieurs des techniques suivantes.
  In order to reduce emissions from skimmings/dross treatment, **BAT** is to use one or a combination of the techniques given below.
  ([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 3831046)

## More sentences

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

- Son travail **consiste** à promouvoir les ventes.
  His job is to promote sales.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pierrephi and CK · checked, community translation · [\#286437](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286437) [\#339155](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/339155))

- L'éducation ne **consiste** pas à apprendre beaucoup de faits.
  Education doesn't consist of learning a lot of facts.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CK · checked, community translation · [\#19134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19134) [\#330175](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/330175))

- Son travail **consiste** à enseigner l'anglais.
  His job is to teach English.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#286424](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286424) [\#1460650](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1460650))

## Grammar

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