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# resolve — English to French

How English *resolve* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: resolve (34 430), resolves (1 020). By style: everyday 14 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 4 109 · legal and administrative 958 · UN documents 30 365.

## décide

Used about 10 241 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 86 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 · UN documents ≈ 10 122).

- Only if the Security Council so finds, and only if it **resolves** that action is to be taken, may action lawfully occur.
  Une action légitime ne peut être lancée que si le Conseil de sécurité la juge opportune et s'il **décide** de réagir.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 417268)

- **RESOLVES** THAT:
  **DÉCIDE**:
  ([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 2302065)

- **Resolves** that for the year 2000:
  **Décide** que, pour l’année 2000 :
  ([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 5957148)

- Madam President, if the European Parliament **resolves** today to speak out against the increasingly frequent and violent infringements of religious freedom, such a resolution will be a token of our great concern.
  Madame le Président, si le Parlement européen **décide** aujourd'hui de s'exprimer contre les violations croissantes et toujours plus graves de la liberté de religion, cela donnera corps à notre grande inquiétude.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1958123)

- Membership shall also terminate if the General Assembly, by a two thirds majority vote, **resolves** that it is in the best interests of the ESS ERIC to terminate such membership following:
  Un membre peut également être déchu si l’assemblée générale, par une majorité des deux tiers, **décide** qu’il est de l’intérêt supérieur de l’ERIC ESS de mettre fin à sa participation lorsque:
  ([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 2823214)

## résoudre

Used about 9 495 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 483 · legal and administrative ≈ 359 · UN documents ≈ 6 642). Forms: résoudre, résout.

- This issue is difficult to **resolve**.
  Ce problème est difficile à **résoudre**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by porfiriy and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#7587529](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7587529) [\#335555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/335555))

- After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to **resolve** all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate.
  Après qu'il eut bien constaté qu'au fond de cette situation il y avait ce jeune homme, et que tout venait de là, lui, Jean Valjean, l'homme régénéré, l'homme qui avait tant travaillé à son âme, l'homme qui avait fait tant d'efforts pour **résoudre** toute la vie, toute la misère et tout le malheur en amour, il regarda en lui-même et il y vit un spectre, la Haine.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25072)

- War never **resolves** anything.
  La guerre ne **résout** jamais rien.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1228248)

- Measures to **resolve** specific problems
  Mesures destinées à **résoudre** des problèmes spécifiques
  ([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 3075804)

- His delegation urged Japan to **resolve** the problem.
  Le Japon doit absolument **résoudre** ce problème.
  ([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 25628084)

## régler

Used about 5 335 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 86 · legal and administrative ≈ 188 · UN documents ≈ 5 061).

- This could indeed help to **resolve** a tricky legal issue that several Member States have mentioned.
  Elle pourrait en effet aider à **régler** cette question juridique épineuse dont certains États membres ont fait état.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1526851)

- The Commission shall take the appropriate measures in order to **resolve** the disagreement.
  Celle-ci prend les mesures appropriées pour **régler** le désaccord.
  ([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 4639066)

- The Secretariat might wish to start negotiations with those Member States to **resolve** the situation.
  Le Secrétariat jugera peut-être utile d &apos; entamer des négociations avec ces États Membres afin de **régler** le problème.
  ([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 9433116)

- Moreover, there are still a number of outstanding problems which we should like to **resolve** with the Council by the end of the discussions on the 1998 budget.
  En outre, nous devons encore **régler** avec le Conseil une série de problèmes en suspens avant la fin des délibérations sur le budget de 1998.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1712526)

- The Committee on Trade and Sustainable Development shall convene promptly and endeavour to **resolve** the matter.
  Le Comité du commerce et du développement durable se réunit dans les moindres délais et s'efforce de **régler** la question.
  ([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 252107)

## problème

Used about 924 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 257 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 · UN documents ≈ 633).

- I hope that this **resolves** the issue.
  J'espère que le **problème** est ainsi résolu.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1388369)

- This was intended to **resolve** the supply difficulties for elemental phosphorus from Kazakhstan.
  Le **problème** des difficultés de livraison du phosphore élémentaire en provenance du Kazakhstan devait ainsi être résolu.
  ([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 582207)

- Failing to mention the fact would not **resolve** the problem.
  Ne pas le mentionner ne résoudra pas le **problème**.
  ([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 2764255)

- In regard to beef and veal, the Agenda decisions **resolve** neither the surplus nor the income problem.
  Dans le secteur bovin, les décisions prises sur l'Agenda ne résolvent ni le **problème** des surplus, ni celui des revenus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1982894)

- The Rapporteur Member State shall immediately take up consultations with that Member State and the Commission in order to discuss the concern expressed and **resolve** divergent opinions.
  L’État membre rapporteur organise immédiatement une consultation avec cet État membre et la Commission afin d’examiner le **problème** soulevé et de lever les divergences d’opinion.
  ([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 1325429)

## More sentences

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

- The doctor's warning stiffened my **resolve** to stop drinking.
  Les avertissements du docteur renforcèrent ma résolution d'arrêter de boire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and ajira86 · checked, community translation · [\#28105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28105) [\#442149](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/442149))

- As he was heading down the street, the young man's **resolve** started to shake.
  À mesure qu'il avançait dans la rue, la résolution du jeune homme commençait à s'ébranler.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and samir\_t · checked, community translation · [\#13859967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13859967) [\#12038095](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12038095))

- He watches the world with quiet **resolve**.
  Il observe le monde avec une détermination silencieuse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12770706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12770706) [\#13365390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13365390))

## 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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