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# contribuer — French to English

How French *contribuer* 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: contribuaient (1 861), contribuait (1 807), contribue (29 942), contribuent (30 656), contribuer (109 299), contribues (1), contribuez (24), contribuons (310), contribué (49 373), contribuée (5), contribuées (9), contribués (18). By style: everyday 96 · literary 5 · biblical 7 · parliamentary 14 884 · legal and administrative 15 128 · UN documents 193 185.

## contribute

Used about 120 711 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 77 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 7 965 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 853 · UN documents ≈ 101 814). Forms: contribute, contributed, contributes, contributing, contribution. Meaning: [contribute in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/contribute/).

- Tom semble **contribuer**.
  Tom seems to be **contributing**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pititnatole and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2276382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2276382) [\#5490733](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5490733))

- 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)

- **Contribuons** à ces propositions.
  Let us **contribute** to these proposals.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1378473)

- **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)

- Ils doivent en outre **contribuer** à:
  In addition, they must **contribute** 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 18684380)

## help

Used about 13 596 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 2 240 · legal and administrative ≈ 384 · UN documents ≈ 10 965). Meaning: [help in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/help/).

- Il envoya de l'argent pour **contribuer** à prendre soin d'elle.
  He sent money to **help** care for her.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#803094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/803094) [\#1260997](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1260997))

- **Contribuons** à rendre l'air plus sain.
  Let us **help** to clean up the air.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 424683)

- Les données RAPEX **contribuent**:
  RAPEX data **help** to:
  ([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 1968417)

- 3. **Contribuer** à la promotion d &apos; une culture de paix de démocratie et de réconciliation nationale
  3. **Help** promote a culture of peace, democracy and national reconciliation
  ([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 21321577)

- Faire de l'exercice peut **contribuer** à stimuler votre libido.
  Exercise may **help** rev up your sex drive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and fekundulo · checked, community translation · [\#3898657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3898657) [\#9755528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9755528))

## More sentences

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

- Cette politique va certainement **contribuer** à stimuler les affaires.
  This policy is sure to go a long way towards stimulating business.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#58244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/58244) [\#1465687](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1465687))

- 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))

- 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))

## 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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