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# davantage — French to English

How French *davantage* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: davantage (131 603). By style: everyday 609 · literary 9 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 15 602 · legal and administrative 4 928 · UN documents 110 442.

## more

Used about 61 315 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 495 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 11 051 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 437 · UN documents ≈ 48 318). Meaning: [more in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/more/).

- J'en veux **davantage**.
  I want **more** than that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3374682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3374682) [\#962547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/962547))

- Cosette n'en demanda pas **davantage**, n'ayant sur la terre qu'un besoin, Marius.
  Cosette asked nothing **more**, since she had but one need on earth, Marius.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31260)

- Joseph eut un songe, et il le raconta à ses frères, qui le haïrent encore **davantage**.
  Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the **more**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 37:5)

- Mais combien **davantage** y a-t-il eu de viols?
  Yet, how many **more** rapes were there?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1963262)

- une installation a été scindée en deux installations ou **davantage**;
  an installation was split into two or **more** installations;
  ([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 2457247)

## further

Used about 28 999 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 300 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 361 · UN documents ≈ 25 310). Meaning: [further in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/further/).

- David s'est éloigné **davantage**.
  David moved **further** away.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11503377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11503377) [\#11504327](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11504327))

- Mais le bonhomme circonspect ne s'expliqua pas **davantage**.
  But the cautious old man would not explain **further**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 500)

- Mais, afin que la chose ne se répande pas **davantage** parmi le peuple, défendons-leur avec menaces de parler désormais à qui que ce soit en ce nom-là.
  But so that this spreads no **further** among the people, let’s threaten them, that from now on they don’t speak to anyone in this name.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 4:17)

- Je voudrais **davantage** d'explications à ce sujet.
  I would welcome **further** clarification on this matter.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 455409)

- Le régime de responsabilité est **davantage** précisé dans l’accord de niveau 2-niveau 3.
  The liability regime shall be **further** specified in the Level 2-Level 3 agreement.
  ([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 2062092)

## could

Used about 2 627 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 325 · UN documents ≈ 2 301).

- L’Éternel n’a pas pu le supporter **davantage**, à cause de la méchanceté de vos actions, à cause des abominations que vous avez commises; et votre pays est devenu une ruine, un désert, un objet de malédiction, comme on le voit aujourd’hui.
  Thus the LORD **could** no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which you have committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation, an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is today.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 44:22)

- Si pour vous, c'est de la codécision, je pense que d'autres mots peuvent convenir bien **davantage**.
  If you call this codecision then there are other better words that **could** be found for it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1758357)

- Cela étant, l &apos; Équipe n &apos; a pu **davantage** souscrire aux conclusions du groupe susmentionné, attribuant la responsabilité au &quot; système &quot; .
  In the circumstances, the team **could** not subscribe any longer to the conclusions of the panel referred to earlier, attributing the responsibility to a systemic problem.
  ([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 3293474)

## than

Used about 205 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 205). Meaning: [than in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/than/).

- Il ressort de ces deux constats que le capital mis à disposition s'apparentait **davantage** à un investissement dans le capital social qu'à un apport tacite.
  These two factors already suggest that the capital provided was similar to share capital rather **than** to a silent partnership.
  ([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 839707)

- Tout cela montre que le préjudice important subi par l’industrie communautaire résulte **davantage** de la chute de la valeur des ventes que du fléchissement de la consommation.
  This shows that the material injury suffered by the Community industry is rather a consequence of the decline in sales value **than** the fall in consumption.
  ([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 682373)

## More sentences

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

- Les industries furent toujours **davantage** préparées pour l'espace.
  Industries increasingly became geared for outer space.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and nonong · checked, community translation · [\#1592681](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1592681) [\#1594159](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1594159))

- Les couronnes de plantes persistantes sont typiques de Noël mais les cartes de crédit le sont **davantage**.
  Evergreen wreaths are Christmasy, but credit cards are Christmasier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and halfb1t · checked, community translation · [\#2114596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2114596) [\#2118716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2118716))

- Travaille avec **davantage** d'application, si tu veux réussir !
  Work harder if you plan to succeed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#522185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/522185) [\#4835469](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4835469))

## Grammar

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