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# demande — French to English

How French *demande* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: demande (510 771), demandes (136 335). By style: everyday 1 192 · literary 23 · biblical 87 · parliamentary 30 971 · legal and administrative 107 930 · UN documents 506 903.

## request

Used about 289 800 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 75 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 11 292 · legal and administrative ≈ 46 095 · UN documents ≈ 232 331). Forms: request, requests. Meaning: [request in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/request/).

- J'espère que vous accepterez ma **demande**.
  I hope that you'll accept my **request**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5930254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5930254) [\#1208830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1208830))

- --Eh bien, j'en **demande** une.
  “Well, I **request** one.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26706)

- Cette **demande** de Salomon plut au Seigneur.
  This **request** pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 3:10)

- Il y a une longue liste de **demandes**.
  There is a very long list of **requests**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1274693)

- Il convient de donner suite à cette **demande**.
  That **request** should be acceded to.
  ([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 1243166)

## application

Used about 117 529 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · parliamentary ≈ 3 549 · legal and administrative ≈ 50 592 · UN documents ≈ 63 363). Forms: application, applications. Meaning: [application in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/application/).

- Sa **demande** a été rejetée.
  His **application** was rejected.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ghostbane and CK · checked, community translation · [\#286849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/286849) [\#4719558](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4719558))

- Une **demande** a été introduite auprès de la Cour de justice.
  There is an **application** before the Court.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 74872)

- Dates de dépôt des **demandes**
  Dates for lodging **applications**
  ([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 1630428)

- **Demandes** d &apos; admission au statut consultatif reçues
  **Applications** for consultative status received from
  ([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 2861350)

- Karl remplissait la **demande**.
  Karl was filling out the **application**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11638976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11638976) [\#11963851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11963851))

## ask

Used about 7 388 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 459 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 26 · parliamentary ≈ 1 613 · UN documents ≈ 5 280). Meaning: [ask in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ask/).

- Et pourquoi **demandes**-tu ?
  And why do you **ask**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and pauldhunt · checked, community translation · [\#895933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/895933) [\#901841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/901841))

- —Une **demande** à vous adresser..
  "I have a question to **ask** you.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2521)

- Maintenant, je te **demande** une chose: ne me la refuse pas! Elle lui répondit: Parle!
  Now I **ask** one petition of you. Don’t deny me.” She said to him, “Say on.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 2:16)

- Que se passe-t-il chez vous, je vous le **demande**?
  I **ask** you: what are they up to?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1808975)

- Mais si tu me le **demandes**, je te dirai que je veux aider les autres.
  But if you **ask** me, I want to help others.
  ([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 25688006)

## More sentences

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

- Il y a un type en bas qui te **demande**.
  There's a guy downstairs asking for you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3729171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3729171) [\#4196906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4196906))

- De temps à autre, ta sœur **demande** aux nôtres de lui enseigner quelque chose.
  Now and then your sister asks our sisters to teach her something.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and MethodGT · checked, community translation · [\#2130864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2130864) [\#2131168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2131168))

- Je me **demande** comment tout ceci s'est produit.
  I wonder how all of this happened.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6003829](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6003829) [\#6556164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6556164))

## 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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