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# recognize — English to French

How English *recognize* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [recognize in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/recognize/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: recognize (37 997), recognizes (38 416). By style: everyday 182 · literary 23 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 1 031 · legal and administrative 159 · UN documents 75 009.

## reconnaître

Used about 40 511 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 494 · legal and administrative ≈ 135 · UN documents ≈ 39 849). Forms: reconnaissent, reconnaît, reconnaître.

- She didn't appear to **recognize** me.
  Elle n'a pas semblé me **reconnaître**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#314105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/314105) [\#1360799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1360799))

- “Because I think I **recognize** him.”
  --C'est que je crois le **reconnaître**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6558)

- The Commission **recognizes** that.
  La Commission le **reconnaît**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1740074)

- In this case, the CITL must **recognize** that the registry is fully operational.)
  Dans ce cas, le CITL doit **reconnaître** que le registre est pleinement opérationnel).
  ([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 1272443)

- **Recognize** the cultural values of forests
  **Reconnaître** la valeur culturelle des forêts
  ([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 6277463)

## More sentences

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

- I can't believe you didn't **recognize** your own brother.
  Je n'arrive pas à croire que vous n'ayez pas reconnu votre propre frère.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4235831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4235831) [\#4236552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4236552))

- I'm sorry, I didn't **recognize** you.
  Je suis désolée, je ne vous ai pas reconnu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2361913](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2361913) [\#2373377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2373377))

- I'm sorry, I don't **recognize** you.
  Je suis désolé, je ne vous remets pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2361916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2361916) [\#2373346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2373346))

## 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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