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# responsibility — English to French

How English *responsibility* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: responsibilities (85 295), responsibility (183 021). By style: everyday 130 · literary 1 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 21 713 · legal and administrative 14 368 · UN documents 232 102.

## responsabilités

Used about 205 933 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 123 · parliamentary ≈ 17 642 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 674 · UN documents ≈ 176 494). Forms: responsabilité, responsabilités.

- I have **responsibilities**.
  J'ai des **responsabilités**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2245896](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2245896) [\#2433255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2433255))

- We must assume our **responsibilities**.
  Nous devons prendre nos **responsabilités**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 205686)

- **Responsibilities** of the Member States
  **Responsabilités** des États membres
  ([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 808821)

- parents, joint **responsibility** of parents,
  des parents, **responsabilité** commune des parents,
  ([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 3799634)

- I've got **responsibilities**.
  J'ai des **responsabilités**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2248391](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2248391) [\#2433255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2433255))

## leurs

Used about 5 136 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 299 · UN documents ≈ 4 835).

- At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden and in all their service; and you shall appoint their duty to them in all their **responsibilities**.
  Dans **leurs** fonctions, les fils des Guerschonites seront sous les ordres d’Aaron et de ses fils, pour tout ce qu’ils porteront et pour tout le service qu’ils devront faire; vous remettrez à leurs soins tout ce qu’ils ont à porter.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 4:27)

- They shall, in particular, provide it with information on the activities carried out in accordance with their **responsibilities** as laid down in this Regulation.
  Ils lui fournissent, en particulier, les informations relatives aux activités menées dans l’exercice de **leurs** fonctions telles qu’elles sont établies par le présent règlement.
  ([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 4676231)

- 13. A number of delegations agreed with the Secretary-General that the United Nations had a **responsibility** to return troops from a mission in good health.
  Un certain nombre de délégations ont dit penser comme le Secrétaire général que l &apos; Organisation avait le devoir de renvoyer les soldats dans **leurs** foyers en bonne 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 11664963)

- Considers the establishment of the budget of decentralised bodies and assessment of the implementation of the respective budget as core **responsibilities** of its Committee on Budgets;
  estime que l’établissement du budget des agences décentralisées et l’évaluation de l’exécution de **leurs** budgets respectifs relèvent des compétences essentielles de sa commission des budgets;
  ([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 5600756)

- They help to enable States Signatories to effectively fulfil their verification **responsibilities** and address possible technical, scientific and legal challenges.
  Elles aident les États signataires à remplir efficacement **leurs** obligations en matière de vérification et, le cas échéant, à résoudre des difficultés techniques, scientifiques et légales.
  ([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 28491308)

## assumer

Used about 227 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 226).

- Luckily, some one came to rescue him from his embarrassment, and assume the **responsibility**.
  Heureusement quelqu'un vint le tirer d'embarras et **assumer** la responsabilité.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 257)

- If you are not prepared to cross this bridge, then you yourself must bear **responsibility** for the consequences.
  Si vous n’y êtes pas prêt, vous devrez en **assumer** vous-même les conséquences.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 522060)

## More sentences

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

- My **responsibility** is to keep the company solvent.
  Je dois veiller à ce que l'entreprise reste solvable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aka\_aj and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#22407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/22407) [\#10494582](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10494582))

- From next week onwards Jane will take **responsibility** for our students.
  À partir de la semaine prochaine, Jeanne se chargera d'enseigner à nos élèves.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aquatius and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#1790027](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1790027) [\#1532565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1532565))

- Collective **responsibility** means irresponsibility.
  Tous responsables, pas de responsable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kotobaboke and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#373270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/373270) [\#812009](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/812009))

## 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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