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Forms: répond, répondre. - I didn't want to **respond**. Je ne voulais pas **répondre**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · [\#11613610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11613610) [\#11596116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11596116)) - She, no less pale, no less like a statue, had hardly noticed that they had placed in her hand a heavy, lighted candle of yellow wax; she had not heard the yelping voice of the clerk reading the fatal contents of the apology; when they told her to **respond** with Amen, she responded Amen. Elle, non moins pâle et non moins statue, elle s'était à peine aperçue qu'on lui avait mis en main un lourd cierge de cire jaune allumé; elle n'avait pas écouté la voix glapissante du greffier lisant la fatale teneur de l'amende honorable; quand on lui avait dit de **répondre** Amen, elle avait répondu Amen. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5743) - The EU must **respond** to this demand. L'UE doit **répondre** à cette demande. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1553589) - Is sensitive to verbal and non-verbal cues, and **responds** to them appropriately. Saisit les indices verbaux et non verbaux et y **répond** adéquatement. ([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 885873) - How to **respond** to this global call? Comment **répondre** à cet appel mondial ? ([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 3715731) ## demande Used about 3 853 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 116 · UN documents ≈ 3 737). - It **responds** to a social need and to long-standing requests by patients' groups. C'était une nécessité pour la société et une **demande** des associations de malades depuis bien longtemps. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1964457) - This report **responds** to that request. Le présent rapport fait suite à cette **demande**. ([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 11391219) - I wonder why it took so long before they were given a proposal to which to **respond**. Je me **demande** d'abord pour quelle raison on a attendu si longtemps avant de demander aux États membres leur réaction à une proposition. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1895066) - The present report **responds** to that request. Le présent rapport fait suite à cette **demande**. ([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 1916820) - The present report **responds** to that mandate. Le présent rapport est établi en application de cette **demande**. ([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 15997395) ## réagir Used about 2 779 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 464 · legal and administrative ≈ 179 · UN documents ≈ 2 135). - It is important to **respond** with caution. Il est important de **réagir** avec prudence. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and madjidoumnia · checked, community translation · [\#13827783](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13827783) [\#13128246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13128246)) - I would like to ask Mr Prodi again to **respond** to this. Je voudrais encore une fois demander à M. Prodi 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 2006021) - Describe how the organisation **responds** to accidents; décrire la manière dont l'organisation doit **réagir** en cas d'accident, ([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 4213460) - The United Nations must be prepared to **respond** — not only by setting standards but by implementing them. L ' ONU doit être prête à **réagir**, non seulement en fixant des normes mais en les appliquant. ([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 3520122) - How do the Council and the Commission intend to **respond** to that? Comment le Conseil et la Commission ont-ils l’intention d’y **réagir**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 668215) ## besoins Used about 2 238 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 58 · legal and administrative ≈ 45 · UN documents ≈ 2 135). - We hope to provide a coherent plan which **responds** to the needs of that region. Nous espérons pouvoir fournir un plan cohérent répondant aux **besoins** de la région. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1720574) - Ultimately, the success of this renewed partnership will be measured by the extent to which it **responds** to the needs of Lebanon and the EU. Enfin, le succès de ce partenariat renouvelé se mesurera à l'aune des réponses apportées aux **besoins** du Liban et de l'UE. ([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 248427) - There is a need for legislation to criminalize violence against women and for mechanisms to **respond** to the needs of survivors and vulnerable women. Il faut que la législation incrimine la violence envers les femmes et que des mécanismes répondent aux **besoins** des survivantes et des femmes vulnérables. ([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 27874234) - are additional, clearly **respond** to replacement and modernisation needs and do not supply a market-driven increase in energy demand; soient complémentaires, répondent clairement aux **besoins** de remplacement et de modernisation et n'engendrent pas d'augmentation de la demande énergétique induite par le marché; ([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 4561052) - 6. In order to ensure that the Register **responds** to evolving security needs, it is important that its operation be regularly reviewed. 6. Pour s ' assurer que le Registre tient compte de l ' évolution des **besoins** en matière de sécurité, il importe d ' en évaluer régulièrement la tenue. ([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 3366929) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Scents, colors, and sounds **respond** to one another. Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#2995609](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2995609) [\#2995601](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2995601)) - I receive a lot of letters and I always **respond** to them. Je reçois beaucoup de lettres et j'y réponds toujours. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6948404](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6948404) [\#1180688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1180688)) - How did he **respond** to the news? Comment a-t-il réagi à la nouvelle ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#290517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/290517) [\#12457174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12457174)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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