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# existence — French to English

How French *existence* 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: existence (78 318), existences (83). By style: everyday 85 · literary 12 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 4 309 · legal and administrative 11 522 · UN documents 62 469.

## existence

Used about 24 325 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 850 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 144 · UN documents ≈ 16 268). Meaning: [existence in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/existence/).

- Je te remercie de ton **existence**.
  I thank you for your **existence**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aandrusiak and aandrusiak · checked, community translation · [\#493861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/493861) [\#493862](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/493862))

- Dans ce trouble où était sa conscience, il ne songeait plus guère à de certains côtés sérieux de l'**existence**.
  In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of certain serious sides of **existence**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14668)

- Pendant des années, on a tout simplement nié l' **existence** du problème.
  For years, the **existence** of a problem was simply denied.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 175638)

- **Existence** d'une aide d'État
  **Existence** of State aid
  ([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 788089)

- L &apos; **existence** de telles lignes directrices a été jugée nécessaire.
  The **existence** of such guidance was deemed necessary.
  ([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 29323297)

## lives

Used about 22 389 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 910 · UN documents ≈ 21 474).

- La masse des hommes vit une **existence** de désespoir tranquille.
  The mass of men lead **lives** of quiet desperation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#841875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/841875) [\#841880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/841880))

- J’ai vu tout cela pendant les jours de ma vanité. Il y a tel juste qui périt dans sa justice, et il y a tel méchant qui prolonge son **existence** dans sa méchanceté.
  All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who **lives** long in his evildoing.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 7:15)

- Avons-nous l’intention d’attendre que nos **existences** soient directement affectées pour agir?
  Do we want to wait until our **lives** are directly affected before we act?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 715341)

- Des vies sont perdues, des **existences** sont ruinées.
  **Lives** are being lost and livelihoods ruined.
  ([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 3722297)

- L’**existence** que mènent généralement les hommes, en est une de tranquille désespoir.
  The mass of men lead **lives** of quiet desperation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by halfb1t and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#841875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/841875) [\#2064534](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2064534))

## livelihoods

Used about 5 041 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 486 · UN documents ≈ 4 555).

- Je sais parfaitement que leurs **existences** mêmes sont en jeu.
  I am very much aware that **livelihoods** are at stake here.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 395493)

- Par conséquent, lorsque leurs moyens d &apos; **existence** sont détruits, les gens cherchent ailleurs.
  Therefore, if **livelihoods** are destroyed people start looking elsewhere.
  ([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 25563734)

- La catastrophe de l'Erika n'a pas coûté de vies humaines mais il se peut qu'elle ait ruiné de nombreuses **existences**, tout comme le Sea Empress et le Braer l'ont fait.
  The Erika cost no human lives but it may have ruined many human **livelihoods**. Just as the Sea Empress, just as the Braer did.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1998)

- Amélioration des moyens d &apos; **existence** des populations rurales dans les provinces de Kratie, Preah Vihear et Ratanakiri
  Rural **livelihoods** improvement project in Kratie, Preah Vihear and Ratanakiri
  ([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 18995112)

- Nombre d'**existences** ont été détruites en l'espace de quelques instants et en Autriche, par exemple, plus de 20 000 hectares de terres cultivées ont été submergées.
  It took no time at all for many **livelihoods** to be destroyed, with, for example, over 20 000 hectares of Austrian arable land inundated.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 354756)

## More sentences

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

- Vraiment, tu es la fleur de mon **existence**.
  Truly you are the flower of my life.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and blay\_paul · checked, community translation · [\#537819](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/537819) [\#549121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/549121))

- L'alcool a pris le contrôle de ton **existence**.
  Alcohol has taken over your life.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2210539](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2210539) [\#2219641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2219641))

- Sami avait une vie totalement secrète dont sa femme ignorait l'**existence**.
  Sami had a completely secret life that his wife didn't know about.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · [\#6372780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6372780) [\#6372796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6372796))

## 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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