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# encourageant — French to English

How French *encourageant* 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: encourageant (23 078), encourageante (2 764), encourageantes (2 190), encourageants (4 886). By style: everyday 13 · parliamentary 1 936 · legal and administrative 762 · UN documents 30 207.

## encouraging

Used about 24 440 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 1 613 · legal and administrative ≈ 477 · UN documents ≈ 22 341). Forms: encouraged, encouraging.

- C'est très **encourageant**.
  That's very **encouraging**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LoveWindPower and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2251308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251308) [\#4591434](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4591434))

- Les signes sont **encourageants**.
  The signs are **encouraging**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1139196)

- Les résultats obtenus à ce jour sont très **encourageants**.
  The results so far have been very **encouraging**.
  ([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 1468100)

- Il existe des signes **encourageants**.
  There are some **encouraging** signs.
  ([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 11798975)

- Je trouve cela très **encourageant**.
  I find it very **encouraging**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#5738307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5738307) [\#11966589](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11966589))

## positive

Used about 1 327 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 50 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 · UN documents ≈ 1 259). Meaning: [positive in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/positive/).

- J'estime la réduction de l'inflation **encourageante**, mais dans le même temps, le chômage augmente.
  Reduced inflation is a **positive** development, in my opinion, but, at the same time, there is rising unemployment.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1540540)

- augmenter la capacité d'adaptation des travailleurs, des entreprises et des chefs d'entreprise, afin d'améliorer l'anticipation et la gestion positive des changements économiques, en particulier en **encourageant**:
  increasing adaptability of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs with a view to improving the anticipation and **positive** management of economic change, in particular by promoting:
  ([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 1006219)

- Les statistiques mensuelles ne sont cependant pas foncièrement **encourageantes**.
  In a monthly context, however, the trends are not entirely **positive**.
  ([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 14188091)

- (SV) Madame la Présidente, à de nombreux égards, il est **encourageant** de constater que le travail sur les nouvelles normes d'adéquation des fonds propres progresse.
  (SV) Madam President, it is, in many respects, a **positive** sign that work on the new capital adequacy rules is progressing.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1408608)

- Un autre aspect important qui a été étudié est la possibilité d'utiliser les produits porteurs du label écologique lors de manifestations à grande échelle telles que les championnats du monde, les jeux olympiques, les festivals, etc. Des résultats très **encourageants** ont été obtenus, notamment lors des jeux olympiques d’Athènes en 2004 et dans la préparation des jeux olympiques d’hiver de Turin en 2006.
  Another important aspect that has been explored is the possibility of using eco-labelled products at ‘mega-events’ such as world championships, the Olympic Games or festivals, etc. Results have been very **positive**, as for example during the Athens Olympic Games 2004 and the Winter Olympic Games 2006 in Turin.
  ([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 809529)

## signs

Used about 196 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 20 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 · UN documents ≈ 157).

- Il y avait certes des signes **encourageants**, mais malheureusement, ce moment s'est rapidement évanoui.
  There have been positive **signs**, but unfortunately the opportunity passed all too quickly.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1897185)

- Bien que celle-ci ait montré des signes **encourageants** de rétablissement à la suite des pratiques de dumping antérieures, tels qu'une hausse des volumes de production et de ventes, les prix du biodiesel sur le marché de l'Union ont baissé de manière significative et la rentabilité est restée très faible, laissant ainsi l'industrie dans une situation économique fragile et vulnérable.
  While the Union industry has shown positive **signs** of recovery from past dumping, such as increased production and sales volume, biodiesel prices on the Union market have decreased significantly and the profitability has remained very low, thus leaving the industry in a fragile and vulnerable economic situation.
  ([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 3675415)

- Pour l &apos; année 2002, l &apos; industrie du tourisme semble montrer quelques signes **encourageants**.
  For the year 2002, some positive **signs** are seen by Guam &apos; s tourism industry.
  ([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 8775318)

- Toutefois ces circonstances prometteuses et **encourageantes** se sont fortement détériorées à partir du 15 mars.
  However, this promising situation, which showed **signs** of encouragement has since 15 March of this year begun to deteriorate significantly.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1598232)

- Bien que celle-ci ait montré des signes **encourageants** de rétablissement à la suite des pratiques de subvention antérieures, tels qu'une hausse des volumes de production et de ventes, les prix du biodiesel sur le marché de l'Union ont baissé de manière significative et la rentabilité est restée très faible, laissant ainsi l'industrie dans une situation économique fragile et vulnérable.
  While the Union industry has shown positive **signs** of recovery from past subsidisation, such as increased production and sales volume, biodiesel prices on the Union market have decreased significantly and the profitability has remained very low, thus leaving the industry in a fragile and vulnerable economic situation.
  ([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 3676146)

## More sentences

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

- Ziri était dans un environnement **encourageant**.
  Ziri was in a supportive environment.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10822169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10822169) [\#11756650](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11756650))

- Elle fit un signe de tête **encourageant**.
  She nodded encouragingly.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2237845](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2237845) [\#10959856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10959856))

- Il opina de manière **encourageante**.
  He nodded encouragingly.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2237843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2237843) [\#2343721](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2343721))

## Grammar

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