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Forms: encourage, encourages. - Et tu l'**encourages** ? And you **encourage** him? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and lukaszpp · checked, community translation · [\#434220](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/434220) [\#1516447](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1516447)) - Le sculpteur **encourage** le fondeur; Celui qui polit au marteau **encourage** celui qui frappe sur l’enclume; Il dit de la soudure: Elle est bonne! Et il fixe l’idole avec des clous, pour qu’elle ne branle pas. So the carpenter **encourages** the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer encourages him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good;” and he fastens it with nails, that it might not totter. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 41:7) - Elle **encourage** les institutions à aller aussi loin que possible dans le sens de la transparence. It **encourages** the institutes to be as open as possible. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1737777) - **encourage** la coopération et l’harmonisation; **encourage** cooperation and harmonisation; ([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 2824452) - This project **encourages** the use of biomass wastes This project **encourages** the use of biomass wastes ([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 22941063) ## continue Used about 706 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 706). Meaning: [continue in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/continue/). - Mme Shum **encourage** le BSCI et le Comité de gestion à continuer à coopérer pour assurer la mise en œuvre intégrale des recommandations du BSCI, dans les meilleurs délais. She encouraged OIOS and the Management Committee to **continue** to cooperate to ensure the full and expeditious implementation of OIOS recommendations. ([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 25644529) ## government Used about 38 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 38). Meaning: [government in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/government/). - J'**encourage** surtout le gouvernement irlandais à contacter la Commission de toute urgence en vue de l'introduction d'une demande. In particular, I call on the Irish **Government** to contact the Commission urgently with a view to submitting an application. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1301934) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - On nous **encourage** à utiliser notre imagination. We are encouraged to use our imagination. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CK · checked, community translation · [\#249003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249003) [\#1006065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1006065)) - Le discours de haine **encourage** les lynchages. Hate speech incites lynchings. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12189610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12189610) [\#13385461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13385461)) - Papa l'**encourage** toujours. Dad's always encouraging him. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · [\#510166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/510166) [\#590224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/590224)) ## 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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