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# contribué — French to English

How French *contribué* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: contribué (49 373), contribuée (5), contribuées (9), contribués (18). By style: everyday 15 · literary 3 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 3 142 · legal and administrative 1 627 · UN documents 44 615.

## contributed

Used about 25 682 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 860 · legal and administrative ≈ 930 · UN documents ≈ 22 879). Forms: contributed, contribution.

- Tom y a beaucoup **contribué**.
  Tom has **contributed** a lot to this.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#11042930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11042930) [\#11042898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11042898))

- Au milieu de cette méditation qui n'eût pas peu **contribué** à rendre ses haillons effrayants pour quelqu'un qui l'eût rencontré, il entendit un bruit joyeux.
  In the middle of this meditation, which would have **contributed** not a little to render his rags terrifying to any one who might have encountered him, a joyous sound became audible.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2419)

- L'attitude globale du PPE sur cette question y a **contribué**.
  Our group's coordinated stance has **contributed** towards this acceptable result.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1888975)

- Seul l'État, en tant qu'actionnaire principal, a **contribué** à ces augmentations de capital.
  Only the State, as main shareholder, **contributed** to those capital increases.
  ([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 4500212)

- Plusieurs facteurs ont **contribué** à cette situation.
  Several factors have **contributed** to this situation.
  ([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 22868545)

## helped

Used about 8 145 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 641 · legal and administrative ≈ 66 · UN documents ≈ 7 436).

- Son point de vue unique a **contribué** à éclairer la situation.
  His unique perspective **helped** shed light on the situation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#522309](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/522309) [\#545253](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/545253))

- Assurément, cela a **contribué** à maintenir la stabilité sur l'île.
  This certainly **helped** the island's stability.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1985283)

- Ce dispositif a **contribué** à répondre à certaines des préoccupations les plus importantes des citoyens et des entreprises de l’Union en matière d’environnement.
  This has **helped** to address some of the most serious environmental concerns of citizens and businesses in the Union.
  ([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 2838249)

- Dans bien des cas, cette modalité d &apos; exécution a **contribué** à mobiliser des ressources supplémentaires.
  In many cases, this modality of execution **helped** mobilize additional 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 3882936)

- Une plus grande demande pour du café de haute qualité a **contribué** à tirer les prix vers le haut.
  Greater demand for high-quality coffee has **helped** drive coffee prices higher.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#1141306](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1141306) [\#1141371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1141371))

## More sentences

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

- Alors pourquoi ne pas simplement dire « Si vous pensez avoir **contribué** suffisamment à Tatoeba pour en devenir un utilisateur de confiance, écrivez un message à un tel utilisateur ou un modérateur qui parle votre langue, et informez-l'en. Il passera en revue vos contributions afin de déterminer si vous avez bien compris le principe. Si c'est le cas, on vous garde » ?
  So why not just say "If you think you've done enough for Tatoeba to become a trusted\_user, write a message to a trusted\_user or moderator that speaks your languages and tell them. They will look over your work to check whether you've understood the system or not. If you have, you're in."?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and BraveSentry · checked, community translation · [\#773031](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/773031) [\#774627](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/774627))

- Tout le monde a **contribué**.
  Everybody made contributions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CM · checked, community translation · [\#5736008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5736008) [\#8442832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8442832))

- et je suis saisi d’une grande irritation contre les nations orgueilleuses; car je n’étais que peu irrité, mais elles ont **contribué** au mal.
  I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 1:15)

## Grammar

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