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# responding — English to French

How English *responding* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: responding (22 291). By style: everyday 16 · literary 2 · parliamentary 955 · legal and administrative 621 · UN documents 20 697.

## répondre

Used about 5 623 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 298 · legal and administrative ≈ 142 · UN documents ≈ 5 174). Forms: répondre, répondu.

- She put off **responding** to me.
  Elle tarde à me **répondre**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharris123 and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#7803135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7803135) [\#4539339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4539339))

- “I am sorry to have nothing better to offer you,” said Mr. Fogg to Fix, who bowed without **responding**.
  «Je regrette de n'avoir pas mieux à vous offrir», dit Mr. Fogg à Fix, qui s'inclina sans **répondre**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1620)

- I should like to begin by **responding** to Mr Savary.
  Je souhaite, tout d’abord, **répondre** à M. Savary.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 507694)

- Listening and **responding** appropriately to others.
  Savoir être à l'écoute des autres et **répondre** de manière adéquate.
  ([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 4139004)

- The approach of **responding** to violence with violence was futile, for it offered no solutions.
  **Répondre** à la violence par la violence n &apos; est pas la solution.
  ([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 13287603)

## More sentences

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

- Tom isn't **responding**.
  Tom ne répond pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Sakura13 · checked, community translation · [\#2237007](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2237007) [\#2740402](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2740402))

- Tom's computer isn't **responding**.
  L'ordinateur de Tom ne répond pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Lulantis · checked, community translation · [\#7492600](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7492600) [\#3472759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3472759))

- They're not **responding**.
  Ils ne répondent pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#2243652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2243652) [\#10184401](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10184401))

## 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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