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# request — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: request (241 393), requests (186 792). By style: everyday 96 · literary 8 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 10 534 · legal and administrative 50 570 · UN documents 366 947.

## demande

Used about 296 319 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 73 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 7 352 · legal and administrative ≈ 44 249 · UN documents ≈ 244 631). Forms: demande, demander, demandes.

- I have a **request**.
  J'ai une **demande**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#2358799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2358799) [\#5331932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5331932))

- “Well, I **request** one.”
  --Eh bien, j'en **demande** une.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26706)

- This **request** pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
  Cette **demande** de Salomon plut au Seigneur.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 3:10)

- The **request** is rejected.
  Le Parlement rejette la **demande**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1579682)

- **Requests** for enforcement measures
  **Demandes** de mesures d'exécution
  ([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 507587)

## More sentences

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

- In fact, I do have a **request**.
  J'ai effectivement une requête.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by karloelkebekio and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3717630](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3717630) [\#2399055](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2399055))

- She kindly listened to my **request**.
  Elle a gentiment écouté ma requête.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1344376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1344376) [\#11248827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11248827))

- I do have one **request**.
  J'ai effectivement une requête.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2315129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2315129) [\#2399055](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2399055))

## 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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