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# contribue — French to English

How French *contribue* 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: contribue (29 942), contribues (1). By style: everyday 27 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 578 · legal and administrative 3 121 · UN documents 24 216.

## contributes

Used about 14 104 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 967 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 016 · UN documents ≈ 11 099). Forms: contribute, contributes, contributing, contribution.

- Ne **contribue** pas à Tatoeba.
  Don't **contribute** to Tatoeba.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AutoBot and AutoBot · checked, community translation · [\#10686614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10686614) [\#10686619](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10686619))

- Le tourisme **contribue** au PIB à raison de 5 %.
  Tourism **contributes** 5% of the EU's GDP.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 320300)

- **Contribue** au maintien d'une glycémie normale.
  **Contributes** to the maintenance of normal blood glucose levels.
  ([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 4686524)

- Dans le cadre de la DDTS, la meilleure pratique **contribue** directement à la :
  With respect to DLDD, the best practice directly **contributes** to:
  ([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 23019874)

- Ne **contribue** pas à Tatoeba.
  Do not **contribute** to Tatoeba.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AutoBot and AutoBot · checked, community translation · [\#10686611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10686611) [\#10686619](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10686619))

## helps

Used about 3 849 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 430 · legal and administrative ≈ 390 · UN documents ≈ 3 027).

- L'éducation **contribue** à façonner le caractère.
  Education **helps** to mold character.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and contour · checked, community translation · [\#19116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19116) [\#9919335](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9919335))

- Il **contribue** également à accélérer le développement.
  In addition, it **helps** to accelerate development.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1129030)

- en outre, le développement de ces aéroports **contribue** à celui des économies régionales concernées.
  developing these airports also **helps** develop the regional economies concerned.
  ([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 5624749)

- La mondialisation **contribue** également à perpétuer le système patriarcal dominant.
  Globalization also **helps** perpetuate a dominant patriarchal system.
  ([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 25779773)

- Le réserviste citoyen, bien que non engagé sur le terrain, **contribue** à renforcer le lien entre la nation et son armée.
  The citizen reservist, although not deployed in the field, **helps** strengthen the bond between the nation and its army.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362868](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362868) [\#13362865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362865))

## makes

Used about 880 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 376 · UN documents ≈ 505).

- Elle est disponible, elle est abordable et elle **contribue** largement à la sécurité d'approvisionnement.
  It is there, it is affordable, and it **makes** a major contribution to security of supply.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 977837)

- Gaza ne dispose d &apos; aucune usine de traitement des eaux usées et cela **contribue** à l &apos; insalubrité de l &apos; eau destinée à la consommation humaine.
  There is no waste water treatment plant in Gaza which **makes** for unsafe drinking water.
  ([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 16387660)

- Un service d'entretien éprouvé **contribue** grandement à la garantie de hautes normes de sécurité.
  A qualified groundhandler **makes** an essential contribution to maintaining the highest standards of safety.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1616243)

- La demande 16 est quant à elle acceptable, car elle **contribue** en définitive à la clarté du texte proposé.
  I am, however, able to accept Amendment No 16. In the final analysis, it **makes** the proposed text clearer.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1725751)

- Nous avons l’obligation de corriger le tir et je pense que ce rapport y **contribue** efficacement.
  We have the obligation to correct the situation and I believe that this report **makes** a good contribution in this regard.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 684456)

## More sentences

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

- Des études montrent qu'une fois les besoins primaires de gîte et de nourriture satisfaits, la richesse additionnelle ne **contribue** que peu au bonheur.
  Studies show that once the basic needs of shelter and food are met, additional wealth adds very little to happiness.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and eastasiastudent · checked, community translation · [\#743117](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/743117) [\#1038183](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1038183))

- La pauvreté **contribue**, plus que toute autre chose au monde, à faire ressortir le pire des gens et à dissimuler le meilleur.
  Poverty does more to bring out the worst in people and conceal the best than anything else in the world.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_Benedict\_1921 · checked, community translation · [\#847258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/847258) [\#1036441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1036441))

- Comme sa divine puissance nous a donné tout ce qui **contribue** à la vie et à la piété, au moyen de la connaissance de celui qui nous a appelés par sa propre gloire et par sa vertu,
  seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2PE 1:3)

## 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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