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# reply — English to French

How English *reply* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: replies (31 212), reply (40 854). By style: everyday 121 · literary 53 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 4 726 · legal and administrative 7 895 · UN documents 59 268.

## réponse

Used about 61 208 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 85 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 495 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 757 · UN documents ≈ 51 860). Forms: répondu, réponse, réponses.

- She didn't **reply**.
  Elle n'a pas **répondu**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#316909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/316909) [\#402643](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/402643))

- “And what **reply** did you receive?”
  --Et que vous a-t-on **répondu**?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4622)

- Joy comes to a man with the **reply** of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
  On éprouve de la joie à donner une **réponse** de sa bouche; Et combien est agréable une parole dite à propos!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 15:23)

- I thank the Commissioner for his **reply**.
  Je remercie M. le commissaire pour sa **réponse**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 37133)

- **REPLY** (within ten working days)
  **RÉPONSE** (dans les dix jours ouvrables)
  ([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 5342595)

## questions

Used about 1 726 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 246 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 480). Forms: questionnaire, questions.

- I am perfectly entitled to put questions to the Commissioner and he is perfectly entitled to **reply**.
  J'ai parfaitement le droit de poser des **questions** au commissaire et il a parfaitement le droit d'y répondre.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1678338)

- Only one user submitted a questionnaire **reply**.
  Seul l'un d'eux a répondu au **questionnaire**.
  ([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 3631003)

- . Mr President, I would like to **reply** to at least those Members who asked questions and who are still present.
  . - Monsieur le Président, je souhaiterais répondre, du moins aux députés qui ont posé des **questions** et sont encore présents.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 537127)

- This party did not submit a questionnaire **reply**.
  Cette partie n’a pas répondu au **questionnaire**.
  ([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 1711919)

- I would also remind you that the Council **replies** to all written and oral questions put to it by the honourable Members.
  Je voudrais également vous rappeler que le Conseil répond à toutes les **questions** écrites ou orales qui lui sont posées par les députés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 423783)

## More sentences

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

- I don't know how to **reply** to that question.
  Je ne sais pas comment répondre à cette question.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#24879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/24879) [\#9666](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9666))

- I didn't know how to **reply**.
  Je ne savais pas comment répondre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zarisi · checked, community translation · [\#6266664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6266664) [\#8393586](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8393586))

- Why does she no longer **reply** to me?
  Pourquoi ne me répond-elle plus ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and irakos5 · checked, community translation · [\#3466430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3466430) [\#3456386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3456386))

## 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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