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# demander — French to English

How French *demander* 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: demandaient (2 197), demandait (8 091), demande (510 771), demandent (16 298), demander (96 791), demandes (136 335), demandez (786), demandons (13 808), demandé (183 861), demandée (14 310), demandées (21 921), demandés (18 665). By style: everyday 3 311 · literary 84 · biblical 183 · parliamentary 60 969 · legal and administrative 137 994 · UN documents 821 293.

## request

Used about 278 586 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 97 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 9 241 · legal and administrative ≈ 62 488 · UN documents ≈ 206 749). Forms: request, requested. 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)

- Esther répondit: Voici ce que je **demande** et ce que je désire.
  Then Esther answered and said, “My petition and my **request** is this.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EST 5:7)

- Nous veillerons à le communiquer comme vous nous le **demandez**.
  We shall communicate that as you **request**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 283665)

- Durée de la dérogation **demandée**
  Duration **requested** for derogation
  ([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 362610)

## ask

Used about 98 450 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 987 · literary ≈ 32 · biblical ≈ 86 · parliamentary ≈ 15 295 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 332 · UN documents ≈ 72 719). Forms: ask, asked. Meaning: [ask in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ask/).

- **Demandons**-lui !
  Let's **ask** her.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and korobo4ka · checked, community translation · [\#4558669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4558669) [\#3534880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3534880))

- Jean **demandait** à son frère:
  Jean **asked** his brother:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2152)

- Si vous **demandez** quelque chose en mon nom, je le ferai.
  If you will **ask** anything in my name, I will do it.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 14:14)

- **Demandez** donc à l’opposition.
  Just **ask** the opposition.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 620844)

- **demander** une explication orale sur place;
  **ask** for an oral explanation on site;
  ([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 2607464)

## information

Used about 36 599 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 531 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 551 · UN documents ≈ 28 517). Meaning: [information in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/information/).

- En tout cas, le numéro de registre de l' abattoir n' apporte rien ou si peu à l' information **demandée**.
  Naturally, the registration number of the slaughterhouse offers them little or nothing in terms of the **information** they require.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 74160)

- **Demandez** des informations complémentaires à la police.
  Ask the police for more **information**.
  ([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 2554560)

- 5. Le tableau de la page 3 indique les renseignements **demandés** aux États membres.
  The table on page 3 provides a summary of the **information** required by member countries.
  ([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 12315138)

- En revanche, je déplore que la commission des budgets ait voté à la réserve les crédits **demandés** par la Commission pour la politique de l' information.
  I am sorry, however, that the Committee on Budgets voted to enter in the reserve Commission appropriations for **information** activities.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 105828)

- Les **demandes** présentées conformément au paragraphe 1 contiennent les renseignements suivants:
  Requests pursuant to paragraph 1 shall include the following **information**:
  ([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 215862)

## More sentences

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

- Je pense que tu pourrais **demander** à Tom de t'aider.
  I think that you could get Tom to help you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by genes1s and CK · checked, community translation · [\#8175235](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8175235) [\#13350366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13350366))

- À mon avis, vous êtes ceux qui devraient **demander** pardon.
  In my opinion, you're the ones who should be apologising.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11593796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11593796) [\#3327098](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3327098))

- Je voudrais **demander** l’asile.
  I would like to apply for asylum.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AutoBot and AutoBot · checked, community translation · [\#10708544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10708544) [\#10708546](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10708546))

## Grammar

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