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# soutenir — French to English

How French *soutenir* 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: soutenir (74 657). By style: everyday 44 · literary 1 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 15 650 · legal and administrative 7 125 · UN documents 51 824.

## support

Used about 62 605 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 12 716 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 680 · UN documents ≈ 43 187). Forms: support, supporting. Meaning: [support in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/support/).

- Il va le **soutenir**.
  He's going to **support** him.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13520298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13520298) [\#13517748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13517748))

- Nous devons **soutenir** la responsabilité sociale des entreprises, et non la réglementer.
  We should **support** CSR, not regulate it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1573355)

- Le programme ISA2 a pour objet de **soutenir** et promouvoir:
  The ISA2 programme shall **support** and promote:
  ([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 3540964)

- Société civile : **soutenir** la participation communautaire
  Civil society. Will **support** community participation.
  ([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 15313690)

- Merci de me **soutenir**.
  Thanks for **supporting** me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4499724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4499724) [\#5367336](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5367336))

## More sentences

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

- Dès qu'ils eurent consommé leur union, elle n'osa plus **soutenir** son regard.
  Once they had consummated their marriage, she didn't dare look him in the eye anymore.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13362743](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362743) [\#13362694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362694))

- Il vaut bien mieux changer d'opinion que d'en **soutenir** une mauvaise.
  It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#7789184](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7789184) [\#7789190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7789190))

- Merci de me **soutenir** autant.
  Thank you for being so supportive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2883037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2883037) [\#11227976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11227976))

## 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

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