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Forms: responsable, responsables. - Who is **responsible** for this? Qui en est **responsable** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lindoula and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3631383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3631383) [\#11601721](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11601721)) - It was plain that the grave-digger had made a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, from the jug to his wife, **responsible** for its loss. Il était visible que le fossoyeur avait éperdument cherché sa carte, et fait tout **responsable** de cette perte dans le galetas, depuis sa cruche jusqu'à sa femme. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12379) - Next: who is **responsible**? Ensuite, qui est **responsable**? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1884158) - Tasks of the **responsible** authority Tâches de l'autorité **responsable** ([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 1138463) - Tasks to be carried out, **responsible** persons and deadlines Task Tâches à effectuer, personnes **responsables** et délais ([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 25198060) ## chargé Used about 19 533 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 484 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 470 · UN documents ≈ 14 580). - It is good that there is now a minister in place who is **responsible** ex officio for minority issues and who will gradually attempt to overcome discrimination. Il faut saluer aussi la création d'un ministère spécifiquement **chargé** des minorités, qui va s'efforcer de mettre progressivement fin aux discriminations. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1396709) - Body **responsible** for compensation Organisme **chargé** de l’indemnisation ([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 1765695) - 10. Technical Service **responsible** for conducting the approval test: 10. Service technique **chargé** des essais d ' homologation: ([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 26484494) - For our part, we in the European Parliament are **responsible** for making the public aware of the daily decisions taken in the interest of the people of Europe. En ce qui nous concerne, notre Parlement européen est **chargé** d'informer le public au sujet des décisions quotidiennes prises dans l'intérêt du peuple européen. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1533202) - Technical service **responsible** for conducting approval tests: Service technique **chargé** des essais: ([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 5413511) ## membres Used about 9 307 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 559 · UN documents ≈ 8 748). - It is also important to bear in mind that IMI users in the Member States are **responsible** for many other processing operations. Il faut en outre garder à l’esprit que les utilisateurs de l’IMI, dans les États **membres**, sont chargés de nombreuses autres opérations de traitement. ([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 1731508) - (c) Be **responsible** for informing the members of the Committee of any questions which may be brought before it for consideration. c) Informe les **membres** du Comité de toute question dont celui-ci pourrait être saisi aux fins d ' examen. ([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 26014075) - Depending on the Member States concerned, the competent ministries are those **responsible** for consumer affairs (Ö, F) or for the area of activity concerned (B, L). Selon les Etats **membres**, les ministères concernés sont les ministères compétents pour les consommateurs (F - Ö) ou pour le domaine considéré (B-L). ([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 14381460) - In particular, countries that are members of the Commission should demonstrate their commitment to the Special Procedures that they themselves are **responsible** for creating by issuing such invitations. En particulier, les Etats **membres** de la Commission devraient manifester leur engagement envers les procédures spéciales, qu ' ils ont eux-mêmes contribué à créer, en lançant de telles invitations. ([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 15721152) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He is the minister **responsible** for the environment. Il est le ministre de l'écologie. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#283505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/283505) [\#9420732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9420732)) - The heat was **responsible** for the meat going bad. La viande a pourri à cause de la chaleur. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#281002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281002) [\#394526](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/394526)) - Parents are **responsible** for their children's education. Les parents portent la responsabilité de l'éducation de leurs enfants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#269755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/269755) [\#465421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/465421)) ## 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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