help — English to French

How English help is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: help in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: help (154 865), helps (9 493). By style: everyday 4 283 · literary 14 · biblical 123 · parliamentary 22 491 · legal and administrative 4 847 · UN documents 132 600.

aide

Used about 55 043 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 391 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 7 497 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 313 · UN documents ≈ 42 819). Forms: aide, aider.

• That helps a bit.

  Ça aide un peu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5158733 #5289395

• “Help!” cried old Fauchelevent.

  --À l'aide! criait le vieux Fauchelevent.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3811

• Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

  Que ta main me soit en aide! Car j’ai choisi tes ordonnances.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:173

• I believe that this may help the process.

  Et j'estime que cela peut aider ce processus.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1916229

• Help towards the cost of housing.

  Aide aux frais de logement.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 1472912

contribue

Used about 29 934 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 45 · parliamentary ≈ 6 326 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 464 · UN documents ≈ 22 100). Forms: contribue, contribuer.

• Education helps to mold character.

  L'éducation contribue à façonner le caractère.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by contour and lbdx · checked, community translation · #19116 #9919335

• It also helps to protect the landscape.

  Il contribue aussi à protéger les paysages.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1103501

• Helps to maintain good skin hydration

  Contribue à maintenir une bonne hydratation de la peau

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 3028866

• It helps in making the State accountable.

  Une telle démarche contribue à rendre l ' État comptable de ses actes.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 15819541

• This, too, helps to ensure road safety.

  Tout ceci contribue également à garantir la sécurité routière.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1252336

More sentences

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

• I heard a cry for help.

  J'ai entendu un appel au secours.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and subaya · checked, community translation · #267189 #6320

• Massages help me to feel relaxed.

  Les massages m'aident à me sentir détendu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #14036777 #14036778

• What can I help you with?

  Que puis-je pour votre service ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bluepie88 and Sisyphe · checked, community translation · #666040 #2287847

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