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Today I received an email from Amazon with some kind of a discount. I decided to make use of it and translate it, however I stumbled on a sentence that gives me problems:
Votre commande récente sur Amazon.fr vous donne droit à un code promotionnel que vous pourrez utiliser lors de votre prochain achat éligible.
I know what the sentence is about however I think that it is missing a verb between donne and droit since having a right to something should be avoir droit à qc.
"Donner droit à quelque chose" is actually a valid and commonly used construction roughly meaning "to be eligible for something".
I personally like Linguee to search for expressions and to get examples of translations. Googling "donner droit" (with quotes) also turns up examples:
Donne is the verb you're looking for:
Votre commande vous donne droit à un code promotionnel.
Your order entitles you (gives you the right) to a promotional code.
