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By style: everyday 101 · literary 5 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 27 449 · legal and administrative 44 858 · UN documents 270 172. ## constitute Used about 34 044 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 442 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 786 · UN documents ≈ 23 808). Forms: constitute, constituted. Meaning: [constitute in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/constitute/). - Ces choses **constituent** un repas équilibré. These things **constitute** a balanced meal. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#55277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/55277) [\#7411300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7411300)) - Les éléments qui **constituent** la considération des gamins entre eux sont très variés. The elements which **constitute** the consideration of the gamins for each other are very various. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12715) - Que reste-t-il encore de la souveraineté de l'Union européenne avant même qu'elle ait été **constituée**? What is left of the European Union sovereignty, before it has even been **constituted**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1748658) - Ces prêts **constituent** donc des aides d’État. These loans therefore **constitute** State aid. ([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 2516616) - Les femmes et les enfants **constituaient** 28 % des victimes. Women and children **constituted** 28 per cent of casualties. ([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 28925963) ## up Used about 17 656 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 575 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 171 · UN documents ≈ 11 904). Meaning: [up in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/up/). - Le Japon est **constitué** d'îles volcaniques. Japan is made **up** of volcanic islands. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Barbiche0 and CM · checked, community translation · [\#281508](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281508) [\#129728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129728)) - Car, si je rebâtis les choses que j’ai détruites, je me **constitue** moi-même un transgresseur, For if I build **up** again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 2:18) - Comment le fonds va-t-il être **constitué**? How is the fund to be made **up**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1529467) - OCR et P2G: à **constituer** avec des fonds propres CET1 OCR and P2G: to be made **up** of CET1 capital ([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 5385820) - Ensemble nous **constituons** le G-0,7. Together we make **up** the G-0.7. ([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 7732858) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les Verts ne veulent pas **constituer** une coalition avec ce parti. The Greens don't want to form a coalition with this party. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13917809](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13917809) [\#13917810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13917810)) - Ces vêtements sales pourraient **constituer** une nouvelle preuve de son innocence. These dirty clothes could be a new piece of evidence to prove his innocence. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#285976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/285976) [\#1223841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1223841)) - L'argent ne peut **constituer** une compensation à la vie. Money cannot compensate for life. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#18620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18620) [\#4426299](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4426299)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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