respond — English to French

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

What it means: respond in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: respond (54 858), responds (4 178). By style: everyday 74 · literary 2 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 5 563 · legal and administrative 2 149 · UN documents 51 247.

répondre

Used about 21 522 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 129 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 276 · UN documents ≈ 17 082). Forms: répond, répondre.

• I didn't want to respond.

  Je ne voulais pas répondre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · #11613610 #11596116

• She, no less pale, no less like a statue, had hardly noticed that they had placed in her hand a heavy, lighted candle of yellow wax; she had not heard the yelping voice of the clerk reading the fatal contents of the apology; when they told her to respond with Amen, she responded Amen.

  Elle, non moins pâle et non moins statue, elle s'était à peine aperçue qu'on lui avait mis en main un lourd cierge de cire jaune allumé; elle n'avait pas écouté la voix glapissante du greffier lisant la fatale teneur de l'amende honorable; quand on lui avait dit de répondre Amen, elle avait répondu Amen.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5743

• The EU must respond to this demand.

  L'UE doit répondre à cette demande.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1553589

• Is sensitive to verbal and non-verbal cues, and responds to them appropriately.

  Saisit les indices verbaux et non verbaux et y répond adéquatement.

  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 885873

• How to respond to this global call?

  Comment répondre à cet appel mondial ?

  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 3715731

demande

Used about 3 853 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 116 · UN documents ≈ 3 737).

• It responds to a social need and to long-standing requests by patients' groups.

  C'était une nécessité pour la société et une demande des associations de malades depuis bien longtemps.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1964457

• This report responds to that request.

  Le présent rapport fait suite à cette demande.

  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 11391219

• I wonder why it took so long before they were given a proposal to which to respond.

  Je me demande d'abord pour quelle raison on a attendu si longtemps avant de demander aux États membres leur réaction à une proposition.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1895066

• The present report responds to that request.

  Le présent rapport fait suite à cette demande.

  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 1916820

• The present report responds to that mandate.

  Le présent rapport est établi en application de cette demande.

  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 15997395

réagir

Used about 2 779 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 464 · legal and administrative ≈ 179 · UN documents ≈ 2 135).

• It is important to respond with caution.

  Il est important de réagir avec prudence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and madjidoumnia · checked, community translation · #13827783 #13128246

• I would like to ask Mr Prodi again to respond to this.

  Je voudrais encore une fois demander à M. Prodi de réagir.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2006021

• Describe how the organisation responds to accidents;

  décrire la manière dont l'organisation doit réagir en cas d'accident,

  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 4213460

• The United Nations must be prepared to respond — not only by setting standards but by implementing them.

  L ' ONU doit être prête à réagir, non seulement en fixant des normes mais en les appliquant.

  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 3520122

• How do the Council and the Commission intend to respond to that?

  Comment le Conseil et la Commission ont-ils l’intention d’y réagir?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 668215

besoins

Used about 2 238 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 58 · legal and administrative ≈ 45 · UN documents ≈ 2 135).

• We hope to provide a coherent plan which responds to the needs of that region.

  Nous espérons pouvoir fournir un plan cohérent répondant aux besoins de la région.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1720574

• Ultimately, the success of this renewed partnership will be measured by the extent to which it responds to the needs of Lebanon and the EU.

  Enfin, le succès de ce partenariat renouvelé se mesurera à l'aune des réponses apportées aux besoins du Liban et de l'UE.

  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 248427

• There is a need for legislation to criminalize violence against women and for mechanisms to respond to the needs of survivors and vulnerable women.

  Il faut que la législation incrimine la violence envers les femmes et que des mécanismes répondent aux besoins des survivantes et des femmes vulnérables.

  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 27874234

• are additional, clearly respond to replacement and modernisation needs and do not supply a market-driven increase in energy demand;

  soient complémentaires, répondent clairement aux besoins de remplacement et de modernisation et n'engendrent pas d'augmentation de la demande énergétique induite par le marché;

  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 4561052

• 6. In order to ensure that the Register responds to evolving security needs, it is important that its operation be regularly reviewed.

  6. Pour s ' assurer que le Registre tient compte de l ' évolution des besoins en matière de sécurité, il importe d ' en évaluer régulièrement la tenue.

  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 3366929

More sentences

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

• Scents, colors, and sounds respond to one another.

  Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #2995609 #2995601

• I receive a lot of letters and I always respond to them.

  Je reçois beaucoup de lettres et j'y réponds toujours.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6948404 #1180688

• How did he respond to the news?

  Comment a-t-il réagi à la nouvelle ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · #290517 #12457174

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