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# donnant — French to English

How French *donnant* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: donnant (26 913). By style: everyday 10 · literary 9 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 1 150 · legal and administrative 3 079 · UN documents 22 646.

## giving

Used about 4 728 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 431 · legal and administrative ≈ 513 · UN documents ≈ 3 774).

- Sally gagne sa vie en **donnant** des cours de piano.
  Sally earns her living by **giving** piano lessons.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lulantis and CN · checked, community translation · [\#53955](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/53955) [\#11645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11645))

- On peut dire qu'elle a créé l'homme une deuxième fois, en lui **donnant** une seconde âme, le droit.
  It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by **giving** him a second soul, the right.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21608)

- Et Dieu, qui connaît les cœurs, leur a rendu témoignage, en leur **donnant** le Saint-Esprit comme à nous;
  God, who knows the heart, testified about them, **giving** them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 15:8)

- Ces vies sont précieuses, et aucune femme ne devrait mourir en **donnant** la vie.
  Those lives are precious and no woman should die **giving** life.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1126321)

- D'une brève description **donnant** les caractéristiques techniques des produits de marquages rétroréfléchissants;
  A brief description **giving** the technical specifications of the retro-reflective marking materials;
  ([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 5518427)

## More sentences

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

- Une petite vieille a déjoué le cambriolage en **donnant** un grand coup sur la tête du voleur avec sa canne.
  A little old woman foiled the robbery by whacking the thief on the head with her cane.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#715774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/715774) [\#801696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/801696))

- On peut offrir la vie en **donnant** son sang.
  You can give the gift of life by donating blood.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3475320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3475320) [\#3487340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3487340))

- Tom fut écroué dans une petite cellule **donnant** sur la rue.
  Tom was imprisoned in a tiny little cell that looked out on the street.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2665072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2665072) [\#1931333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1931333))

## 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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