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By style: everyday 52 · literary 7 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 3 980 · legal and administrative 1 692 · UN documents 53 904. ## increasing Used about 27 030 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 762 · legal and administrative ≈ 828 · UN documents ≈ 24 425). Forms: increased, increasing, increasingly. - La fonction exponentielle est strictement **croissante**. The exponential function is strictly **increasing**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12269584](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12269584) [\#5370554](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5370554)) - Sa confiance **croissant**, il ajouta: His confidence having **increased**, he added:— ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25153) - Pendant que Saül parlait au sacrificateur, le tumulte dans le camp des Philistins allait toujours **croissant**; et Saül dit au sacrificateur: Retire ta main! While Saul talked to the priest, the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and **increased**; and Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand!” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 14:19) - D'autre part, ce sont des activités à rendement **croissant**. On the other hand, these activities have an **increasing** return. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 409849) - On constate des différences **croissantes** entre les règles nationales à cet égard. There are **increasing** differences between such national rules. ([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 4558733) ## growing Used about 21 504 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 410 · legal and administrative ≈ 423 · UN documents ≈ 19 653). Meaning: [growing in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/growing/). - La dette du pays va **croissant**. The national debt is **growing**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#680641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/680641) [\#2022374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2022374)) - «Djali, reprit la jeune fille enhardie par le succès **croissant**, comment prêche maître Jacques Charmolue, procureur du roi en cour d'église?» “Djali,” resumed the young girl, emboldened by her **growing** success, “how preaches Master Jacques Charmolue, procurator to the king in the ecclesiastical court?” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 916) - Je vois les écarts **croissants** entre continents. I can see the **growing** divide between continents. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2016009) - La pauvreté énergétique est un problème **croissant** au sein de la Communauté. Energy poverty is a **growing** problem in the Community. ([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 1759646) - L ' enfance fait désormais partie des préoccupations **croissantes** du Sultanat. 77. Concern for childhood is **growing** in the Sultanate. ([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 19509738) ## concern Used about 893 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 41 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 · UN documents ≈ 842). Meaning: [concern in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/concern/). - Ce sont en effet d'une part le besoin sans cesse **croissant** d'énergie et d'autre part l'augmentation des émissions de CO2 qui nous causent le plus de soucis. For our major **concern** is, on the one hand, the rising need for energy and, on the other, the rise in CO2 emissions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1654791) - Ces évolutions sont particulièrement préoccupantes étant donné la participation **croissante** des clients de détail dans ce secteur du marché. These developments are of particular **concern** given the increase in retail clients participating in this sector of the market. ([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 4762671) - 85. Le déséquilibre **croissant** du rapport de masculinité est une source de préoccupation. 85. Declining Child Sex Ratio is a matter of **concern**. ([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 25789654) - Nous prenons connaissance avec préoccupation, nous aussi, du vieillissement exagéré de la population, des coûts **croissants** des systèmes de sécurité sociale et des changements qui interviennent dans la vie familiale. We too note with **concern** the ageing of the population, the rising costs of social security schemes and the changes in family life. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1698924) - La sécurité et la protection du personnel humanitaire travaillant dans la sous-région ont suscité des préoccupations **croissantes** ces dernières années. 131. **Concern** over the security and protection of humanitarian workers operating in the subregion has risen in recent years. ([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 8028956) ## needs Used about 612 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 41 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 · UN documents ≈ 562). - L’UE veut répondre à tous ses besoins énergétiques **croissants** par l’utilisation du gaz. The EU wants to satisfy all of the growth in its energy **needs** by using gas. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 792646) - Toutefois, afin de suivre les recommandations nutritionnelles en matière d'absorption de calcium et de promouvoir la consommation de produits spécifiques ou de répondre à des besoins nutritionnels particuliers d'enfants vivant sur leur territoire, et en raison de problèmes **croissants** liés à l'intolérance au lactose dans le lait, les États membres devraient être autorisés, à condition qu'ils distribuent déjà du lait de consommation ou des variantes sans lactose, à distribuer d'autres produits laitiers sans addition d'aromatisants, de fruits, de fruits à coque ou de cacao, comme le yaourt et le fromage, qui ont des effets bénéfiques sur la santé des enfants. However, in order to follow nutritional recommendations on calcium absorption and to promote the consumption of specific products or to respond to particular nutritional **needs** of children in their territory, and given the increase in problems associated with intolerance to lactose in milk, Member States should be allowed, provided that they already distribute drinking milk or lactose-free versions thereof, to distribute other milk products without added flavouring, fruit, nuts or cocoa, such as yoghurt and cheese, which have beneficial effects on children's health. ([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 3984484) - Il faut donc renforcer la banque de données pour répondre aux besoins **croissants** en matière d’informations traitées. As a result, the existing database **needs** to be further developed to accommodate increased information-handling requirements. ([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 4080805) - Sans parler des conséquences qui résulteraient d'une couverture des besoins énergétiques **croissants** au niveau mondial sans augmentation correspondante de la part du nucléaire. We will not mention what sort of effects there would be if the world' s additional **needs** for energy were fully met without building more nuclear power plants. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2046538) - C ' est le manque de sécurité, réel ou perçu comme tel, ainsi que les besoins énergétiques **croissants** qui sont à l ' origine des préoccupations concernant la prolifération. Lack of security, real or perceived, and expanded energy **needs** are the root cause of concerns about proliferation. ([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 1819609) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - On considère que le **Croissant** Fertile est le berceau de la civilisation. The Fertile Crescent is considered to be the cradle of civilization. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3393826](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3393826) [\#3399294](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3399294)) - Thomas trempa son **croissant** dans son café. Tom dipped his croissant into his coffee. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Blabla and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10466983](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10466983) [\#6096588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6096588)) - Pardonnez-moi, mais vous n'avez pas la clé pour la machine là-bas ? Il est coincé, mon **croissant**. I'm sorry, but do you happen to have the key to that machine over there? My croissant is stuck. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · [\#503434](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/503434) [\#503433](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/503433)) ## 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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