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J'ai cédé à ses **exigences**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#261316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/261316) [\#14726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](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) ## 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10528661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10528661) [\#11147383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 4450116) - 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) - His **demands** are reasonable. Ses **demandes** sont raisonnables. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#4558941](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4558941) [\#1102091](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by samir\_t and samir\_t · checked, community translation · [\#12973143](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12973143) [\#12973144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12973144)) - The union was modest in its wage **demands**. Le syndicat fut modéré dans ses revendications salariales. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#45642](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/45642) [\#988406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/988406)) - You're in no position to make any **demands**. Vous n'êtes pas en position d'exiger quoi que ce soit. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3093708](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3093708) [\#10668890](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10668890)) ## 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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