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# touchant — French to English

How French *touchant* 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: touchant (40 323), touchante (21), touchantes (12), touchants (26). By style: everyday 11 · literary 6 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 810 · legal and administrative 905 · UN documents 38 639.

## consacrée

Used about 7 155 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 7 155).

- La première journée du débat de haut niveau (5 juillet) sera consacrée à une concertation et à l’examen des faits nouveaux **touchants** l’économie mondiale et la coopération économique internationale avec les chefs de secrétariat des institutions finan-cières et commerciales multilatérales du système des Nations Unies.
  La première journée du débat de haut niveau (5 juillet) sera **consacrée** à une concertation et à l’examen des faits nouveaux touchants l’économie mondiale et la coopération économique internationale avec les chefs de secrétariat des institutions finan-cières et commerciales multilatérales du système des Nations Unies.
  ([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 6461104)

## affecting

Used about 3 602 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 75 · legal and administrative ≈ 189 · UN documents ≈ 3 339).

- Cette mesure supprimera la concurrence déloyale **touchant** le secteur européen du tourisme.
  This measure will eliminate the unfair competition **affecting** the European travel industry.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 484749)

- une épizootie **touchant** tout ou partie du cheptel de l'exploitant.
  an epizootic disease **affecting** all or part of the farmer's livestock.
  ([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 439975)

- Lois **touchant** le droit au logement
  Laws **affecting** the right to housing
  ([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 12079462)

- Nous sommes tous d'accord sur la nécessité de réduire le nombre excessif de réglementations **touchant** les entreprises.
  We are all agreed that the undue amount of regulations **affecting** enterprises should be reduced.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1086196)

- des maladies **touchant** l'être humain, y compris les réactions allergiques ou toxiques,
  disease **affecting** humans, including allergenic or toxic reactions,
  ([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 4560539)

## More sentences

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

- Un avantage certain des portes automatiques est que les gens ne peuvent pas propager leurs maladies contagieuses en **touchant** les poignées de porte.
  A definite advantage of automatic doors is that people can't spread their contagious diseases by touching door handles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#3004366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3004366) [\#8287694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8287694))

- Il est difficile de subvenir aux besoins d'une famille en **touchant** le SMIC.
  It's hard to support a family on minimum wage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2942996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2942996) [\#3290857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3290857))

- C’est très **touchant**.
  That's very touching.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Danquebec and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2251325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251325) [\#3013129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3013129))

## 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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