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La **demande** est énorme. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Cronos87 · checked, community translation · [\#1526299](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1526299) [\#10090559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 1161021) - II. Meeting new **demands** II. Répondre à de nouvelles **demandes** ([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 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2313722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2313722) [\#11181293](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11181293)) - I don’t **demand** that. Je n'**exige** pas cela. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](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 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2888766](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2888766) [\#8463514](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#3291309](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3291309) [\#3446520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3446520)) - It was hard for me to turn down his **demand**. Il m'a été difficile de rejeter sa revendication. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#497486](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/497486) [\#496869](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/496869)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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