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# développement — French to English

How French *développement* 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: développement (1 455 235), développemente (6), développementes (1), développements (7 405). By style: everyday 56 · literary 3 · parliamentary 53 657 · legal and administrative 46 864 · UN documents 1 362 067.

## development

Used about 1 187 257 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 44 714 · legal and administrative ≈ 44 911 · UN documents ≈ 1 097 588). Forms: development, developments. Meaning: [development in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/development/).

- Son **développement** mental a été lent.
  Her mental **development** was slow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by emitxab111 and emitxab111 · checked, community translation · [\#11175396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11175396) [\#11175398](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11175398))

- La première, c'est qu'il avait horreur maintenant de cette maison où il avait vu, de si près et dans tout son **développement** le plus repoussant et le plus féroce, une laideur sociale plus affreuse peut-être encore que le mauvais riche, le mauvais pauvre.
  The first was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious **development**, a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked rich man, the wicked poor man.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18731)

- Certains **développements** sont fort troublants.
  There are some very disturbing **developments**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 678755)

- Agence de **développement** industriel
  Industrial **Development** Agency (ARP)
  ([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 1985555)

- CONSEIL DU COMMERCE ET DU **DÉVELOPPEMENT**
  TRADE AND **DEVELOPMENT** BOARD
  ([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 3089292)

## developing

Used about 97 046 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 4 471 · UN documents ≈ 92 568).

- L'Algérie est un marché en **développement**.
  Algeria is a **developing** market.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10105335](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10105335) [\#11837485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837485))

- Souvent les pays en **développement** ne disposent pas d’un cadre juridique satisfaisant.
  In addition, **developing** countries often lack an adequate legal framework.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 845713)

- VI. Placements dans les pays en **développement**
  VI. Investments in **developing** countries
  ([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 14914410)

- L'Algérie est une économie en **développement**.
  Algeria is a **developing** economy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10096351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10096351) [\#10925509](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10925509))

- Ses performances sont médiocres, aussi bien par rapport aux pays hautement industrialisés qu'aux pays en **développement**.
  It does badly against both highly industrialised and **developing** countries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 888161)

## economic

Used about 13 224 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 13 224). Meaning: [economic in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/economic/).

- 5. La littérature économique ne paraît guère consacrer de **développements** à la signification exacte de l &apos; inflation.
  5. In **economic** literature, there seems to be little discussion of the exact meaning of inflation.
  ([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 3775079)

## More sentences

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

- Il n'existe pas de véritable sécurité par le biais d'une alliance ou d'une coopération avec les États-Unis, mais uniquement par le **développement** d'armes nucléaires.
  There is no meaningful safety through alliance or collaboration with the United States, only through the pursuit of nuclear weapons.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13783567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13783567) [\#13783622](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13783622))

- Il existait des machines à calculer primitives longtemps avant le **développement** des ordinateurs.
  Primitive calculating machines existed long before computers were developed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CM · checked, community translation · [\#239461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239461) [\#136153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136153))

- Les livres de **développement** personnel sont très populaires en Amérique.
  Self-help books are very popular in America.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5592937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5592937) [\#11930533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11930533))

## Grammar

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