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# encourager — French to English

How French *encourager* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: encouragaient (1), encourage (69 209), encouragent (10 071), encourager (103 837), encourages (1 328), encouragez (48), encouragé (28 177), encouragée (6 035), encouragées (6 131), encouragés (15 487). By style: everyday 59 · literary 3 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 10 998 · legal and administrative 7 857 · UN documents 221 402.

## encouraged

Used about 174 515 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 5 961 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 963 · UN documents ≈ 162 548). Forms: encourage, encouraged, 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 sénateur, **encouragé**, reprit:
  The senator was **encouraged**, and went on:—
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 501)

- ou plutôt, afin que nous soyons **encouragés** ensemble au milieu de vous par la foi qui nous est commune, à vous et à moi.
  that is, that I with you may be **encouraged** in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 1:12)

- Ces efforts doivent être **encouragés**.
  These efforts must be **encouraged**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1765316)

- Les Parties sont **encouragées** à:
  Parties are **encouraged** to:
  ([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 4174840)

## promoted

Used about 22 751 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 192 · legal and administrative ≈ 818 · UN documents ≈ 20 739). Forms: promote, promoted.

- Il a **encouragé** l'idée d'un gouvernement mondial.
  He **promoted** the idea of world government.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · [\#300275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/300275) [\#856933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/856933))

- J'aimerais que cette méthode soit **encouragée**.
  I should like to see this method **promoted**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 466872)

- **encouragent** les processus de compréhension mutuelle, et
  **promote** mutual understanding processes;
  ([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 1078733)

- L &apos; utilisation de pesticides présentant des risques réduits est **encouragée** dans tous les pays.
  Use of reduced-risk pesticides is **promoted** in all 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 16177958)

- Elle est à présent **encouragée** par des États démocratiques.
  Now it is being **promoted** by democratic states.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 839248)

## More sentences

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

- Tom sourit à Mary pour l'**encourager**.
  Tom smiled at Mary in encouragement.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pik0fr and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#8143420](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8143420) [\#13049659](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13049659))

- Veuillez ne pas **encourager** la délinquance en laissant sans surveillance sur votre siège vos sacs à main et objets de valeur.
  Please do not invite crime by leaving handbags and valuables on your seat unattended.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and marafon · checked, community translation · [\#3078186](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3078186) [\#3515159](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3515159))

- Assister et **encourager** l'ennemi est considéré comme de la trahison.
  Aiding and abetting the enemy is considered treason.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#669567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/669567) [\#809521](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809521))

## 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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