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# requests — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: requests (186 792). By style: everyday 10 · literary 1 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 2 253 · legal and administrative 7 883 · UN documents 176 640.

## demandes

Used about 104 603 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 690 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 226 · UN documents ≈ 95 680). Forms: demande, demandes.

- Do you have any special **requests**?
  Avez-vous des **demandes** particulières ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#9014416](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9014416) [\#12216131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12216131))

- I know there were legitimate **requests** to speak.
  Je sais que les **demandes** de prise de parole étaient légitimes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 485824)

- **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)

- 12. **Requests** the Office of the High Commissioner:
  12. **Demande** au Haut-Commissariat:
  ([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 25491441)

- We are generally amenable to **requests** of this kind.
  Nous sommes généralement ouverts à ce genre de **demandes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10763056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10763056) [\#10763057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10763057))

## prie

Used about 66 240 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 66 240).

- 12. **Requests** the Secretary-General to ensure the effective implementation of the programme of the Commission;
  12. **Prie** le Secrétaire général de veiller à l’application effective du programme de la Commission;
  ([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 4581033)

- 12. **Requests** the Executive Director to continue to provide the necessary support to the Global Mercury Partnership;
  12. **Prie** le Directeur exécutif de continuer de fournir le soutien nécessaire au Partenariat mondial sur le mercure;
  ([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 27074847)

- and **requests** the Committee to report on the implementation of that decision to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session;
  et **prie** le Comité de lui rendre compte à sa cinquante-deuxième session de l &apos; application de cette décision;
  ([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 3645944)

- The Committee also **requests** the State party to provide information on the measures to regulate the private health-care sector.
  Il le **prie** en outre de fournir des renseignements sur les mesures prises pour réglementer le secteur privé de la santé.
  ([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 18971421)

- 7. Further **requests** the Secretary-General to make the necessary financial arrangements to support the work of the Monitoring Group;
  7. **Prie** le Secrétaire général de prendre les dispositions voulues pour financer les travaux du Groupe de contrôle;
  ([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 23191697)

## More sentences

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

- Robert was always besieging people with **requests**.
  Robert assaillait toujours les gens de requêtes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#632068](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/632068) [\#632105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/632105))

- We get a lot of **requests**.
  Nous avons beaucoup de requêtes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and pititnatole · checked, community translation · [\#3312839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3312839) [\#7099896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7099896))

- He flatly refused her **requests** for help.
  Il refusa catégoriquement ses appels à l'aide.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#302848](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/302848) [\#3474206](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3474206))

## Grammar

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