demand — English to French

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

What it means: demand in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: demand (77 066), demands (31 075). By style: everyday 116 · literary 11 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 13 065 · legal and administrative 9 447 · UN documents 85 498.

demande

Used about 48 661 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 4 219 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 216 · UN documents ≈ 39 187). Forms: demande, demandes.

• The demand is huge.

  La demande est énorme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Cronos87 · checked, community translation · #1526299 #10090559

• The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands what wrong Clusium has done to them.

  Les Gaulois convoitent Cluse, Rome protège Cluse, et leur demande quel tort Cluse leur a fait.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23668

• The demand for substitution is a further issue.

  La demande de remplacement est une autre question.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 889387

• annual energy demands and CO2 emissions

  Demande énergétique annuelle et émissions de CO2

  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 1161021

• II. Meeting new demands

  II. Répondre à de nouvelles demandes

  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 9250958

exige

Used about 18 955 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 50 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 586 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 067 · UN documents ≈ 14 250). Forms: exige, exigences.

• I demand the truth.

  J'exige la vérité.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2313722 #11181293

• I don’t demand that.

  Je n'exige pas cela.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17560

• Let us not just sit here and make unrealistic demands.

  Évitons de lancer des exigences irréalistes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 977687

• the long-term retirement-related demands and needs of the PEPP saver.

  les exigences et besoins à long terme en matière de retraite de l’épargnant PEPP.

  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 4993383

• All this demands a major effort of coordination, and Switzerland will contribute to that.

  Cela exige un important effort de coordination, et la Suisse y contribuera.

  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 8742213

More sentences

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

• Englishmen will never be slaves. They will always be free to do what the government and public opinion demand from them.

  Les Anglais ne seront jamais des esclaves. Ils seront toujours libres de faire ce que le gouvernement et l'opinion publique leur demandent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2888766 #8463514

• Tom is a top-notch defence lawyer and his services are in demand.

  Tom est un excellent avocat de la défense et ses services sont très demandés.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and felix63 · checked, community translation · #3291309 #3446520

• It was hard for me to turn down his demand.

  Il m'a été difficile de rejeter sa revendication.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #497486 #496869

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