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# exige — French to English

How French *exige* 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: exige (43 905), exiges (8). By style: everyday 50 · literary 2 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 3 358 · legal and administrative 3 765 · UN documents 36 732.

## required

Used about 27 528 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 1 329 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 059 · UN documents ≈ 23 128). Forms: require, required, requires.

- L’amitié **exige** une confiance mutuelle.
  Friendship **requires** mutual trust.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by saillier and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3174720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3174720) [\#13314256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13314256))

- L'ordre parlementaire l'**exige**.
  That is **required** by parliamentary order.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1401757)

- Si la législation nationale l'**exige**.
  If **required** by national legislation.
  ([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 999986)

- ANGLES MINIMAUX **EXIGES** POUR LA REPARTITION LUMINEUSE SPATIALE
  MINIMUM ANGLES **REQUIRED** FOR LIGHT DISTRIBUTION IN SPACE
  ([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 19173911)

- Explorer l’espace **exige** de la précision.
  Exploring space **requires** precision.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12774942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12774942) [\#13365307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13365307))

## demands

Used about 3 973 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 560 · UN documents ≈ 3 401).

- Le public **exige** des réponses.
  The public **demands** answers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1654309](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1654309) [\#1654380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1654380))

- --Le boulanger **exige** un acompte, et dit que pas d'argent, pas de pain.
  “The baker **demands** a settlement, and says, ‘no money, no bread.’”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19830)

- Monsieur le Commissaire, la sécurité de nos enfants **exige** notre attention permanente.
  Commissioner, our children's safety **demands** our permanent attention.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1194037)

- 5. **Exige** la fermeture immédiate de tous les camps de détention sur tout le territoire de la République de Bosnie-Herzégovine;
  5. **Demands** that all detention camps throughout the territory of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina should be immediately closed;
  ([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 2183244)

- Il **exige** le paiement immédiat.
  He **demands** immediate payment.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#290257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/290257) [\#130945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130945))

## More sentences

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

- La situation **exige** des mesures drastiques.
  The situation calls for drastic measures.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and CK · checked, community translation · [\#268506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/268506) [\#584471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/584471))

- Le cricket est un jeu qui **exige** de l'habileté.
  Cricket is a game that takes skill.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#681054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/681054) [\#1190535](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1190535))

- L'avantage en vieillissant, c'est qu'on n'**exige** plus des choses qu'étant jeune on ne pouvait s'offrir par manque d'argent.
  The advantage of ageing is that one doesn't demand anymore the things that one failed to obtain in one's youth through lack of money.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and mervert1 · checked, community translation · [\#2782078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2782078) [\#1949676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1949676))

## Grammar

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