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# response — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: response (178 533), responses (45 923). By style: everyday 76 · literary 6 · parliamentary 10 435 · legal and administrative 11 870 · UN documents 202 069.

## réponse

Used about 111 876 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 67 · literary ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 7 065 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 913 · UN documents ≈ 96 825). Forms: réponse, réponses.

- He made no **response**.
  Il ne fit pas de **réponse**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by wma and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#510864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/510864) [\#546494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/546494))

- There was nothing to say to so confident a **response**.
  Il n'y avait rien à dire à une **réponse** faite avec une si complète assurance.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 702)

- It requires a serious **response**.
  Elle nécessite une **réponse** sérieuse.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 288772)

- Coherence of EU **response**
  Cohérence de la **réponse** de l’Union européenne
  ([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 1173917)

- **Responses** are made on case-by-case basis.
  Les **réponses** se font au cas par cas.
  ([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 17112751)

## questions

Used about 4 318 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 109 · UN documents ≈ 4 210).

- I am not saying that these are bad contracts. I am simply saying that a whole series of issues merit **responses**.
  Je ne dis pas que ce sont de mauvais contrats, je dis simplement que toute une série de **questions** mérite qu'on y réponde.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1232230)

- **Response** to the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions contained in document A/52/697
  Suite donnée aux recommandations formulées par le Comité consultatif pour les **questions** administratives et budgétaires dans le document A/52/697
  ([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 4717369)

- 36. In **response** to these issues, participants stressed the need for the post-2015 development agenda to reflect an appropriate balance of development outcomes and enablers.
  36. En rapport avec ces **questions**, les participants ont souligné que le programme de développement postérieur à 2015 devait refléter un équilibre approprié entre résultats de développement et facteurs de développement.
  ([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 26463323)

## More sentences

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

- The government has been emboldened by the lack of **response** from the international community.
  Le gouvernement a été encouragé par le manque de réaction de la communauté internationale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4152339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4152339) [\#4152340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4152340))

- She made no **response** to my question.
  Elle ne répondit pas à ma question.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ludoviko and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#251061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251061) [\#1189702](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1189702))

- Leon didn't get a **response** to his hello.
  Personne n'a répondu au bonjour de Léon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and genes1s · checked, community translation · [\#11645649](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11645649) [\#13325714](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13325714))

## 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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