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# contribution — French to English

How French *contribution* 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: contribution (129 174), contributions (195 872). By style: everyday 21 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 10 060 · legal and administrative 23 953 · UN documents 291 009.

## contributions

Used about 213 801 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 8 698 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 204 · UN documents ≈ 181 881). Forms: contribution, contributions.

- Merci de ta **contribution**.
  Thanks for your **contribution**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2994101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2994101) [\#5920379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5920379))

- Car la Macédoine et l’Achaïe ont bien voulu s’imposer une **contribution** en faveur des pauvres parmi les saints de Jérusalem.
  For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain **contribution** for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 15:26)

- Je vous félicite pour votre **contribution**.
  I congratulate you on your **contributions**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1875233)

- Ces **contributions** sont utilisées:
  Those **contributions** shall be used to make:
  ([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 5348177)

- autonome **Contributions** non budgétisées
  Value of non-budgeted **contributions**
  ([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 25534702)

## member

Used about 9 408 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 314 · UN documents ≈ 9 094). Meaning: [member in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/member/).

- Détermination des **contributions** financières des États membres à la ressource propre fondée sur la TVA
  Determination of **Member** States' payments to the VAT-based own resource
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 177508)

- Je demande instamment à tous les États Membres d &apos; acquitter ponctuellement et intégralement leur **contribution** et de régler tous leurs arriérés.
  I appeal to all **Member** States to pay their assessments promptly and in full and to clear all remaining arrears.
  ([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 5400598)

- Le montage financier final devra garantir que les nouveaux États membres n'apporteront pas de **contributions** nettes avant 2007.
  The final package must guarantee that new **Member** States will not be net contributors before 2007.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 378215)

- Cela rendrait le barème plus précis et plus juste, en particulier pour les États Membres auxquels s &apos; applique un faible taux de **contribution**.
  This should make the scale more precise as well as fairer, especially for **Member** States with smaller assessment rates.
  ([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 2266188)

- En 2009, 500 millions d'euros devraient être affectés à ce programme, un montant auquel s'ajouteraient les **contributions** supplémentaires des États membres participant au cofinancement.
  In 2009 this scheme should include a sum of EUR 500 million, with additional resources from the **Member** States designated for cofinancing.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1242420)

## made

Used about 3 031 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 031).

- Certains participants ont proposé que les **contributions** régionales fassent l &apos; objet de directives.
  Some participants **made** a proposal to develop guidelines for regional input.
  ([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 17416289)

## More sentences

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

- Merci pour ta **contribution**.
  Thanks for your input.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5059276](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5059276) [\#7527468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7527468))

- Les optimistes tout comme les pessimistes apportent leur **contribution** à la société. L'optimiste invente l'aéroplane, le pessimiste le parachute.
  Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#6959977](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6959977) [\#8943587](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8943587))

- Il a apporté sa **contribution**.
  He contributed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CH · checked, community translation · [\#8477694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8477694) [\#10868087](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10868087))

## Grammar

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