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# calls — English to French

How English *calls* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: calls (98 304). By style: everyday 141 · literary 7 · biblical 32 · parliamentary 5 918 · legal and administrative 4 372 · UN documents 87 834.

## demande

Used about 23 459 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 863 · legal and administrative ≈ 638 · UN documents ≈ 21 959).

- The resolution **calls** on the Assembly to organise these meetings.
  La résolution **demande** à l’Assemblée d’organiser ces réunions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 656211)

- **calls** for an annual report on the progress made to be submitted to Parliament;
  **demande** que le Parlement soit tenu informé des progrès réalisés par le biais d’un rapport annuel;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2758336)

- 3. **Calls** upon all States:
  3. **Demande** à tous les États:
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 27190896)

- Your draft resolution **calls** for a range of actions from the different partners involved.
  Votre projet de résolution **demande** une série d'actions de la part des différents partenaires impliqués.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1852248)

- **calls** on the Centre to keep the discharge authority informed of the use of those contributions;
  **demande** au Centre d’informer l’autorité de décharge de l’utilisation de ces contributions;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2759949)

## appelle

Used about 22 321 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 1 726 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 186 · UN documents ≈ 18 299). Forms: appelle, appels.

- Her mother **calls** her.
  Sa mère l'**appelle**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by billt\_estates and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#4761366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4761366) [\#2734891](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2734891))

- All at once Blondeau **calls**, ‘Marius Pontmercy!’
  Tout à coup Blondeau **appelle** Marius Pontmercy.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14260)

- This persuasion is not from him who **calls** you.
  Cette influence ne vient pas de celui qui vous **appelle**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 5:8)

- The Commission **calls** this harmonization.
  La Commission **appelle** cela harmonisation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1842159)

- Calculation of margin **calls**
  Calcul des **appels** de marge
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2322554)

## invite

Used about 12 507 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 616 · legal and administrative ≈ 911 · UN documents ≈ 10 979).

- The report also **calls** for Member States to recognise national traditions in implementing employment policy.
  Ce rapport **invite** également les États membres à tenir compte des traditions nationales dans la mise en œuvre de leurs politiques de l'emploi.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1079566)

- **calls** on the Commission to endorse fully the Court of Auditors’ recommendations;
  **invite** la Commission à approuver en tous points les recommandations de la Cour des comptes;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2758512)

- 2. **Calls** upon African States that have not yet done so to sign and ratify the Treaty as soon as possible;
  2. **Invite** les États africains qui ne l &apos; ont pas encore fait à signer et à ratifier le Traité dès que possible;
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 21744536)

- The Commission **calls** on Russia to honour the commitments it has made, particularly at the time of its accession to the Council of Europe.
  La Commission **invite** la Russie à respecter les engagements pris, notamment lors de son adhésion au Conseil de l'Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1624375)

- **calls** on the Commission to communicate the outcome of those efforts to Parliament by the end of November 2013;
  **invite** la Commission à communiquer le résultat de ces efforts au Parlement avant la fin du mois de novembre 2013;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2759471)

## More sentences

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

- I've got to make some **calls**.
  Je dois passer quelques coups de fil.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2359762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2359762) [\#11082134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11082134))

- He can mask his feeling if the occasion **calls** for it.
  Il peut dissimuler ses sentiments si les circonstances le demandent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Nyans · checked, community translation · [\#318270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/318270) [\#134776](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134776))

- Nobody ever **calls** me.
  Jamais personne ne me téléphone.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#6132406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6132406) [\#6132409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6132409))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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