demands — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: demands (31 075). By style: everyday 44 · literary 4 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 5 362 · legal and administrative 557 · UN documents 25 107.

exigences

Used about 9 597 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 29 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 011 · legal and administrative ≈ 232 · UN documents ≈ 7 323). Forms: exige, exigences.

• I gave in to her demands.

  J'ai cédé à ses exigences.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #261316 #14726

• “The baker demands a settlement, and says, ‘no money, no bread.’”

  --Le boulanger exige un acompte, et dit que pas d'argent, pas de pain.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19830

• 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

demandes

Used about 4 017 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 782 · legal and administrative ≈ 93 · UN documents ≈ 3 138).

• I gave in to their demands.

  J'ai cédé à leurs demandes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10528661 #11147383

• We therefore reject, among other things, the following demands by the Committee on Transport and Tourism.

  C'est pourquoi, nous refusons les demandes suivantes de la commission des transports et du tourisme.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1659099

• Frequency to which the worker has to face unforeseen demands for changed working time in the main job

  Fréquence à laquelle le travailleur doit faire face à des demandes imprévues de modification du temps de travail dans l'emploi principal

  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 4450116

• 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

• His demands are reasonable.

  Ses demandes sont raisonnables.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and sysko · checked, community translation · #4558941 #1102091

More sentences

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

• It’s a job that few young people still dare to dream of, as it demands both patience and solitude.

  C’est un métier dont peu de jeunes osent encore rêver, tant il demande de patience et de solitude.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by samir_t and samir_t · checked, community translation · #12973143 #12973144

• The union was modest in its wage demands.

  Le syndicat fut modéré dans ses revendications salariales.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #45642 #988406

• You're in no position to make any demands.

  Vous n'êtes pas en position d'exiger quoi que ce soit.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3093708 #10668890

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