asked — English to French

How English asked is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: asked (91 898). By style: everyday 1 582 · literary 138 · biblical 200 · parliamentary 8 503 · legal and administrative 2 842 · UN documents 78 633.

demandé

Used about 49 571 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 989 · biblical ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 4 074 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 895 · UN documents ≈ 42 593). Forms: demande, demandé.

• I asked for something else.

  J'ai demandé autre chose.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jaydenms and mela · checked, community translation · #9011895 #2851057

• “Two things I have asked of you. Don’t deny me before I die.

  Je te demande deux choses: Ne me les refuse pas, avant que je meure!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 30:7

• We are not being asked to delay the vote.

  Un report du vote ne nous est pas demandé.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 617215

• Third user asked to remain unknown

  Le troisième utilisateur a demandé à rester anonyme.

  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 2440631

• They asked for money, and looted her goods.

  Ils ont demandé de l ' argent et ont pillé la maison.

  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 11029553

m

Used about 5 993 times in the texts (literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 063 · UN documents ≈ 4 915).

• “The address that you asked me to get!”

  --L'adresse que vous m'avez demandée!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19072

• As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he asked the commanding officer, “May I speak to you?” He said, “Do you know Greek?

  Au moment d’être introduit dans la forteresse, Paul dit au tribun: M’est-il permis de te dire quelque chose? Le tribun répondit: Tu sais le grec?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 21:37

• Mr Hughes has asked me to make this request.

  M. Hughes m'a prié de vous présenter cette question.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1638662

• Asked whether he had been subjected to any abuse, Mr. A. made no such claim.

  En réponse à la question de savoir s ' il avait subi des sévices, M. A. n ' a fait aucune allégation en ce sens.

  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 11477380

• “Who is the agent?” asked M. Madeleine.

  --Quel est cet agent? demanda M. Madeleine.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4578

lui

Used about 2 080 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 165 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 92 · parliamentary ≈ 177 · UN documents ≈ 1 638).

• He asked her questions.

  Il lui posa des questions.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by wma and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #510851 #6568972

• When they had finished, when they had told each other everything, she laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:—

  Quand ils eurent fini, quand ils se furent tout dit, elle posa sa tête sur son épaule et lui demanda:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20407

• He called one of the servants to him and asked what was going on.

  Il appela un des serviteurs, et lui demanda ce que c’était.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 15:26

• During the hearing conducted in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Mr Draghi gave full answers to all the questions the MEPs asked him.

  Lors de son audition par la commission des affaires économiques et monétaires, M. Draghi a répondu à toutes les questions que les députés européens lui ont posées.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1584918

• 2. The CHAIRPERSON invited the Icelandic delegation to respond to questions asked by members of the Committee.

  2. La PRÉSIDENTE invite la délégation islandaise à répondre aux questions que lui ont posées les membres du Comité.

  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 6241679

si

Used about 37 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · biblical ≈ 4).

• Would you have asked me this question if I had been a man?

  Est-ce que vous m'auriez posé cette question si j'avais été un homme ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jerom and Clavain · checked, community translation · #445729 #444004

• and called and asked whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was lodging there.

  et demandèrent à haute voix si c’était là que logeait Simon, surnommé Pierre.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 10:18

More sentences

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

• The boy asked his mother a question.

  Le fils posa une question à sa mère.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and fs · checked, community translation · #759447 #659067

• I've got the documents you asked for.

  J'ai les documents que vous avez demandés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2359702 #9077976

• Every student was asked one question.

  On posa à chaque élève une question.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1449853 #1450074

Grammar

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