reply — English to French

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

What it means: reply in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: replies (31 212), reply (40 854). By style: everyday 121 · literary 53 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 4 726 · legal and administrative 7 895 · UN documents 59 268.

réponse

Used about 61 208 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 85 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 495 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 757 · UN documents ≈ 51 860). Forms: répondu, réponse, réponses.

• She didn't reply.

  Elle n'a pas répondu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · #316909 #402643

• “And what reply did you receive?”

  --Et que vous a-t-on répondu?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4622

• Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

  On éprouve de la joie à donner une réponse de sa bouche; Et combien est agréable une parole dite à propos!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 15:23

• I thank the Commissioner for his reply.

  Je remercie M. le commissaire pour sa réponse.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 37133

• REPLY (within ten working days)

  RÉPONSE (dans les dix jours ouvrables)

  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 5342595

questions

Used about 1 726 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 246 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 480). Forms: questionnaire, questions.

• I am perfectly entitled to put questions to the Commissioner and he is perfectly entitled to reply.

  J'ai parfaitement le droit de poser des questions au commissaire et il a parfaitement le droit d'y répondre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1678338

• Only one user submitted a questionnaire reply.

  Seul l'un d'eux a répondu au questionnaire.

  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 3631003

• . Mr President, I would like to reply to at least those Members who asked questions and who are still present.

  . - Monsieur le Président, je souhaiterais répondre, du moins aux députés qui ont posé des questions et sont encore présents.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 537127

• This party did not submit a questionnaire reply.

  Cette partie n’a pas répondu au questionnaire.

  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 1711919

• I would also remind you that the Council replies to all written and oral questions put to it by the honourable Members.

  Je voudrais également vous rappeler que le Conseil répond à toutes les questions écrites ou orales qui lui sont posées par les députés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 423783

More sentences

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

• I don't know how to reply to that question.

  Je ne sais pas comment répondre à cette question.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #24879 #9666

• I didn't know how to reply.

  Je ne savais pas comment répondre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zarisi · checked, community translation · #6266664 #8393586

• Why does she no longer reply to me?

  Pourquoi ne me répond-elle plus ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and irakos5 · checked, community translation · #3466430 #3456386

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