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# obligations — French to English

How French *obligations* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: obligations (192 737). By style: everyday 9 · literary 1 · parliamentary 5 304 · legal and administrative 33 299 · UN documents 154 124.

## obligations

Used about 141 254 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 536 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 487 · UN documents ≈ 125 226).

- Je n'ai pas rempli mes **obligations**.
  I didn't fulfill my **obligations**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6257552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6257552) [\#11472639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11472639))

- Ne nous lassons pas de le répéter, songer, avant tout aux foules déshéritées et douloureuses, les soulager, les aérer, les éclairer, les aimer, leur élargir magnifiquement l'horizon, leur prodiguer sous toutes les formes l'éducation, leur offrir l'exemple du labeur, jamais l'exemple de l'oisiveté, amoindrir le poids du fardeau individuel en accroissant la notion du but universel, limiter la pauvreté sans limiter la richesse, créer de vastes champs d'activité publique et populaire, avoir comme Briarée cent mains à tendre de toutes parts aux accablés et aux faibles, employer la puissance collective à ce grand devoir d'ouvrir des ateliers à tous les bras, des écoles à toutes les aptitudes et des laboratoires à toutes les intelligences, augmenter le salaire, diminuer la peine, balancer le doit et l'avoir, c'est-à-dire proportionner la jouissance à l'effort et l'assouvissement au besoin, en un mot, faire dégager à l'appareil social, au profit de ceux qui souffrent et de ceux qui ignorent, plus de clarté et plus de bien-être, c'est là, que les âmes sympathiques ne l'oublient pas, la première des **obligations** fraternelles, c'est, que les coeurs égoïstes le sachent, la première des nécessités politiques.
  Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget that this is the first of fraternal **obligations**, and selfish hearts must understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in offering them the example of labor, never the example of idleness, in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit to wealth, in creating vast fields of public and popular activity, in having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that grand duty of opening workshops for all arms, schools for all aptitudes, and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; in a word, in evolving from the social apparatus more light and more comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21641)

- Les autorités bélarussiennes n'ont toutefois pas rempli toutes leurs **obligations**.
  The Belarusian authorities did not, however, meet all their **obligations**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1142927)

- **Obligations** générales des constructeurs
  General **obligations** of manufacturers
  ([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 3324259)

- Droits et **obligations** de la banque dépositaire
  C. Rights and **obligations** of the depositary bank
  ([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 16665780)

## constitutional

Used about 9 018 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 9 018). Meaning: [constitutional in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/constitutional/).

- Pas d'**obligations** constitutionnelles signalées.
  No **constitutional** requirements indicated.
  ([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 287423)

- Pas d’**obligations** constitutionnelles signalées.
  No **constitutional** requirements indicated.
  ([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 90997)

## bonds

Used about 8 179 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 111 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 856 · UN documents ≈ 3 211).

- Une manière répandue de financer un déficit est de proposer des **obligations**.
  A common way to finance a budget deficit is to issue **bonds**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and CK · checked, community translation · [\#244270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244270) [\#1538517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1538517))

- Deuxièmement, les **obligations** mentionnées dans le rapport Monti doivent être mises en œuvre, mais elles ne sont pas évoquées dans la stratégie économique "Europe 2020".
  Secondly, the **bonds** specified in the Monti Report have to be implemented, but they are not mentioned in the Europe 2020 Economic Strategy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1497534)

- **Obligations** garanties de qualité extrêmement élevée
  Extremely high quality covered **bonds**
  ([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 3946409)

- Avec un rendement de 21,9 %, les **obligations** ont apporté une contribution majeure à la bonne performance des placements.
  11. The major contribution to performance during the biennium had come from **bonds**, which had generated a return of 21.9 per cent.
  ([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 11675161)

- Catégorie d'actifs — **Obligations** (types d'obligation ETC et ETN)
  Asset class — **Bonds** (ETC and ETN bond types)
  ([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 4294599)

## requirements

Used about 6 901 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 221 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 469 · UN documents ≈ 3 211).

- Ce processus devrait encourager l'introduction d'**obligations** d'établissement de rapports financiers pour chaque pays afin de contribuer à la lutte contre la pauvreté.
  This process should encourage the introduction of financial reporting **requirements** for each country in order to benefit the fight against poverty.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1509278)

- Les **obligations** minimales relatives aux réévaluations du prix de titres sont indiquées au tableau 1A.
  The minimum **requirements** for price revaluation of securities are set out in Table 1A.
  ([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 1788086)

- Les **obligations** propres à ce niveau d &apos; accréditation sont énumérées au tableau 1.
  Specific **requirements** for this level of accreditation are listed in Table 1.
  ([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 27994973)

- Cela signifie que les opérateurs pourraient satisfaire à leurs **obligations** environnementales en utilisant des crédits octroyés pour un projet nucléaire réalisé durant la période allant de 2008 à 2012.
  This means that operators could meet their environmental **requirements** by means of credits from a nuclear project conducted in the period from 2008 to 2012.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 588115)

- Le DCT-prestataire de services bancaires se conforme à l'ensemble des **obligations** de déclaration suivantes:
  A CSD-banking service provider shall comply with all of the following reporting **requirements**:
  ([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 4275214)

## rights

Used about 3 543 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 332 · UN documents ≈ 3 211).

- Dans notre coin du monde qui est monogame, se marier équivaut à diminuer ses droits de moitié et à doubler ses **obligations**.
  In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s **rights** and double one's duties.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#678633](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/678633) [\#678692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/678692))

- La vente implique l'abandon de l'ensemble des droits et **obligations**, moyennant une compensation financière.
  A sale implies that all **rights** and duties are waived, and that is what the financial compensation is for.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 209370)

- DE L &apos; ENFANT CONCERNANT LES **OBLIGATIONS** DES ÉTATS
  THE **rights** OF THE CHILD CONCERNING REPORTING
  ([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 10470785)

- Au Parlement européen comme dans tous les États européens démocratiques, le contrôle du budget fait partie des principaux droits et **obligations** des députés.
  As in all democratic European States, budgetary control is one of the most important **rights** and duties of the Members of the European Parliament.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 168233)

- Employeurs et travailleurs ne disposent dès lors pas d'une connaissance suffisante de leurs **obligations** et de leurs devoirs. Nous devons remédier à ce problème.
  Employers and employees do not, therefore, have a good enough knowledge of their duties and **rights**, and that is a situation that we must do something about.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 949321)

## under

Used about 3 321 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 111 · UN documents ≈ 3 211). Meaning: [under in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/under/).

- Dans une telle situation, la Commission se doit d’intervenir en vertu des **obligations** que lui imposent les traités d’adhésion.
  Given this situation, the Commission has an obligation **under** the accession treaties to intervene in the matter.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 825100)

- Elle avait donné effet à ces **obligations** par la loi de 2004 sur la protection de l &apos; environnement, qui incriminait le trafic international illicite d &apos; espèces sauvages.
  Those binding commitments were enforced **under** the Environment Protection Act of 2004, which penalized illicit international trafficking in wildlife.
  ([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 19204913)

## More sentences

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

- Quelles sont vos **obligations** ?
  What are your duties?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2270115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2270115) [\#3245389](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3245389))

- J'ai déjà des **obligations** à 10 heures.
  I have a previous engagement at ten.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bourdu and CK · checked, community translation · [\#73431](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/73431) [\#330015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/330015))

- N'oubliez-pas vos **obligations** parentales.
  Don't forget your parental duties.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#7544994](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7544994) [\#7564908](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7564908))

## Grammar

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