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Forms: livelihood, livelihoods. - Beaucoup de familles dépendent de la pêche pour leur **subsistance**. Many families depend on these fisheries for their **livelihoods**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1348784) - la résilience des communautés, des moyens de **subsistance** et des écosystèmes. Resilience of communities, **livelihoods** and ecosystems. ([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 213965) - Microcentrales hydrauliques à l ' appui des moyens de **subsistance** durables Community Micro-Hydro for Sustainable **Livelihood** ([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 13949973) - Les systèmes de production d'animaux de l'Union sont importants pour la préservation des moyens de **subsistance**. EU livestock production systems are important for maintaining **livelihoods**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1433037) - Afin de garantir les moyens de **subsistance** des pêcheurs de l’Union, il importe que ces pêcheries soient ouvertes à compter du 1er janvier 2011, To ensure the **livelihood** of Union fishermen, it is important to open these fisheries on 1 January 2011, ([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 2204539) ## subsistence Used about 8 761 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 40 · legal and administrative ≈ 189 · UN documents ≈ 8 531). Meaning: [subsistence in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/subsistence/). - Plus de 90 % des retraités vivent avec un revenu inférieur au niveau de **subsistance**. More than 90% of pensioners are surviving on income which is below **subsistence** level. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1319198) - mise à disposition de moyens de **subsistance**, provision of **subsistence** funds, ([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 2756756) - b) Indemnité de **subsistance** (missions) (b) Daily **subsistence** allowance ([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 4721212) - 34 % des citoyens lettons vivent actuellement avec un revenu de **subsistance** et aux marges de la pauvreté. Thirty-four per cent of the population of Latvia currently survives on **subsistence** income and on the margins of poverty. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1451428) - assistance logistique et aide à la **subsistance**, logistics and **subsistence** support, ([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 3164107) ## food Used about 4 934 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 8 · UN documents ≈ 4 922). Meaning: [food in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/food/). - Il appela sur le pays la famine, Il coupa tout moyen de **subsistance**. He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the **food** supplies. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 105:16) - Ceux qui doivent encore chasser pour leur **subsistance** n'ont plus besoin de recourir à cette technique de mise à mort pénible et archaïque. People who may still need to hunt for **food** no longer need to use such painful and archaic killing technology. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1792363) - Les fonctionnaires chargés des **subsistances** enregistrent quotidiennement la température observée dans les congélateurs et les refroidisseurs. Daily records of temperatures of the freezers and chillers are kept by the **Food** Officers. ([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 16278923) - Partis de Madian, ils allèrent à Paran, prirent avec eux des hommes de Paran, et arrivèrent en Égypte auprès de Pharaon, roi d’Égypte, Pharaon donna une maison à Hadad, pourvut à sa **subsistance**, et lui accorda des terres. They arose out of Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him **food**, and gave him land. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 11:18) - En outre, les deux officiers responsables des **subsistances** n ' avaient aucune qualification particulière en matière d ' approvisionnement. In addition, the two staff officers for **food** had no specific qualifications for food supply. ([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 13097141) ## living Used about 761 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 48 · legal and administrative ≈ 56 · UN documents ≈ 656). Meaning: [living in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/living/). - Je fais ça comme moyen de **subsistance**. I do this for a **living**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2315145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2315145) [\#2420636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2420636)) - Pour la croissance, //la **subsistance** des uns ne doit pas se faire au détriment des autres//. For future growth, making a **living** must not equate to making a killing. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1235355) - Allocation de **subsistance** (pour la mobilité entrante en CZ) **Living** Allowance (for incoming mobility to CZ) ([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 4919501) - L ' Étatprovidence est tenu de pourvoir à la **subsistance** de ses citoyens et de leur assurer des conditions propices à l ' épanouissement de la liberté. The welfare state is responsible to its citizens for the securing both of their **living** conditions and of the preconditions for freedom to flourish. ([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 18594336) - Est-ce là le message durable à envoyer à un pays qui veut s'offrir des moyens de **subsistance** ? Is that going to be a sustainable message to give them when they want to make a **living** for themselves? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 294041) ## allowance Used about 11 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 11). Meaning: [allowance in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/allowance/). - L'allocation de **subsistance** (loi du 23 décembre 1999 sur les pensions et l'assurance invalidité). Maintenance **allowance** (Pension and Disability Insurance Act of 23 December 1999). ([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 669086) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il n'a maintenant plus de moyens de **subsistance**. Now he has nothing to live for. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#241931](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241931) [\#1351395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1351395)) - Tous les hommes qui jouissent des fruits de la terre doivent en donner une part à l'Église qui l'affectera à trois objets : la **subsistance** des pasteurs, l'entretien des bâtiments du culte, le soulagement des pauvres. All men who profit from the fruits of the earth must give back part of them to the Church, who will apply them to three uses: providing for pastors, the maintenance of religious buildings, help to the poor. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#407512](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/407512) [\#407507](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/407507)) - Si tu donnes ta propre **subsistance** à celui qui a faim, Si tu rassasies l’âme indigente, Ta lumière se lèvera sur l’obscurité, Et tes ténèbres seront comme le midi. and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 58:10) ## 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. 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