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# assumer — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: assumaient (265), assumait (563), assume (10 385), assument (4 972), assumer (25 643), assumes (75), assumez (74), assumons (212), assumé (4 235), assumée (1 114), assumées (2 558), assumés (859). By style: everyday 30 · literary 1 · parliamentary 4 829 · legal and administrative 3 263 · UN documents 42 832.

## responsibility

Used about 13 982 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 231 · legal and administrative ≈ 590 · UN documents ≈ 11 138). Forms: responsibilities, responsibility. Meaning: [responsibility in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/responsibility/).

- J'en **assume** l'entière responsabilité.
  I take full **responsibility**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4499696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4499696) [\#12258866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12258866))

- Heureusement quelqu'un vint le tirer d'embarras et **assumer** la responsabilité.
  Luckily, some one came to rescue him from his embarrassment, and assume the **responsibility**.
  ([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)

- Il a **assumé** cette responsabilité...
  It has lived up to that **responsibility** ...
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 624494)

- Elles **assumaient** donc la responsabilité du processus de vente.
  Therefore, they bore the **responsibility** of the selling process.
  ([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 5261980)

- Nous **assumons** notre responsabilité à cet égard.
  We are assuming our **responsibility** in this area.
  ([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 10198697)

## assumed

Used about 4 344 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 144 · legal and administrative ≈ 687 · UN documents ≈ 3 513).

- Cela aurait été possible, puisque nous avions réalisé le travail et **assumé** les coûts.
  It would have been possible, as we had done the job and **assumed** the costs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 889382)

- Risques **assumés** par LuxSCS
  Risks **assumed** by LuxSCS
  ([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 4513328)

- c) Un audit externe et interne, fonction **assumée** par le PNUD;
  Internal and external audit: a function **assumed** by UNDP; and
  ([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 13606521)

- Il s'agit aussi par là de favoriser un fonctionnement transparent que je considère comme indispensable à une démocratie **assumée**.
  It is also about promoting transparency of operation, which I regard as essential for an **assumed** democracy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1538254)

- de la responsabilité **assumée** par chaque partie;
  the responsibility **assumed** by each party;
  ([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 4295551)

## More sentences

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

- Le destin de Tom et Mary hantait sans cesse l'auteur, accablé par sa propre impuissance à en **assumer** le poids.
  The destiny of Tom and Mary ceaselessly haunted the author, weighed down by his own powerlessness to assume it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1778631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1778631) [\#1088937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1088937))

- Vous devez en **assumer** les conséquences.
  You should abide by the consequences.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#16601](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16601) [\#3970472](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3970472))

- J'**assume** que ma réponse est correcte.
  I assume my answer is right.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Liboo and DJ\_Saidez · checked, community translation · [\#10300400](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10300400) [\#1941729](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1941729))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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