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# résoudre — French to English

How French *résoudre* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: résoudre (50 934). By style: everyday 326 · literary 4 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 7 926 · legal and administrative 1 320 · UN documents 41 356.

## resolve

Used about 14 483 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 807 · legal and administrative ≈ 468 · UN documents ≈ 11 201). Forms: resolve, resolving. Meaning: [resolve in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/resolve/).

- Il n'y a que lorsque le Secrétaire du Comité du Parti est venu en personne pour le **résoudre** que ce point de vue a été entièrement dissipé.
  Only when the Party Committee Secretary came in person to **resolve** it was this point of view dispelled entirely.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and eastasiastudent · checked, community translation · [\#2367450](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2367450) [\#2367726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2367726))

- Après qu'il eut bien constaté qu'au fond de cette situation il y avait ce jeune homme, et que tout venait de là, lui, Jean Valjean, l'homme régénéré, l'homme qui avait tant travaillé à son âme, l'homme qui avait fait tant d'efforts pour **résoudre** toute la vie, toute la misère et tout le malheur en amour, il regarda en lui-même et il y vit un spectre, la Haine.
  After he had thoroughly verified the fact that this young man was at the bottom of this situation, and that everything proceeded from that quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to **resolve** all life, all misery, and all unhappiness into love, looked into his own breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25072)

- Nous devons aider la Moldavie à **résoudre** le conflit portant sur la Transnistrie.
  We must help Moldova **resolve** the Transnistria conflict.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1089465)

- Mesures à prendre pour **résoudre** des problèmes spécifiques
  Measures to **resolve** specific problems
  ([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 3073109)

- Enfin, les tribunaux fédéraux peuvent être appelés à **résoudre** certains problèmes.
  Finally, federal courts may be called upon to **resolve** problems.
  ([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 13393614)

## solve

Used about 12 977 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 251 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 137 · legal and administrative ≈ 110 · UN documents ≈ 9 477). Forms: solve, solving. Meaning: [solve in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/solve/).

- Peux-tu **résoudre** ce problème ?
  Can you **solve** this problem?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by martin9 and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#698942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/698942) [\#1450646](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1450646))

- J'étais rassuré sur ce moyen héroïque de **résoudre** le problème.
  So I felt reassured as far as regarded this heroic method of **solving** the difficulty.
  ([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 327)

- On ne peut pas **résoudre** les problèmes que l'on n'identifie pas.
  If you do not recognize the existence of problems, you cannot **solve** them.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1872170)

- Il s’agirait de présenter le verdissement comme un outil permettant de **résoudre** les problèmes, et de mieux informer sur sa valeur.
  The goal is to present greening as a way of **solving** problems and to make the value of greening better understood.
  ([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 5051413)

- Le dialogue et la coopération sont les uniques moyens de **résoudre** les problèmes en suspens.
  Dialogue and cooperation were the only means to **solve** the remaining problems.
  ([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 10255437)

## problem

Used about 10 571 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 48 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 661 · legal and administrative ≈ 385 · UN documents ≈ 9 477). Forms: problem, problems. Meaning: [problem in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/problem/).

- Peux-tu **résoudre** ce problème ?
  Can you do this **problem**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Vortarulo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#56755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/56755) [\#11469](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11469))

- Le premier soin de Passepartout, ainsi «japonaisé», fut d'entrer dans une «tea-house» de modeste apparence, et là, d'un reste de volaille et de quelques poignées de riz, il déjeuna en homme pour qui le dîner serait encore un problème à **résoudre**.
  His first care, after being thus “Japanesed,” was to enter a tea-house of modest appearance, and, upon half a bird and a little rice, to breakfast like a man for whom dinner was as yet a **problem** to be solved.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1868)

- Elle ne peut cependant **résoudre** seule ce problème mondial.
  Britain, however, cannot tackle a global **problem** alone.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1972601)

- **Résoudre** le problème de l'arriéré judiciaire.
  Address the **problem** of backlog in courts.
  ([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 401028)

- 40. Un autre problème grave qu’il convient de **résoudre** est celui de l’impunité, et le Burundi n’est pas le seul dans ce cas.
  40. Another serious **problem** to be solved was that of impunity, and Burundi was not alone in that respect.
  ([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 3767493)

## address

Used about 1 916 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 165 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 · UN documents ≈ 1 723). Meaning: [address in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/address/).

- L'administration devrait aborder ce problème et le **résoudre** au plus tard pour la fin de cette année.
  The administration should **address** this shortcoming and corrrect it by no later than the end of this year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 867659)

- Toutefois, elle estime que l'instrument le plus adéquat pour **résoudre** ce type de difficulté est l'aide à l'investissement.
  However, the Commission considers that the proper instrument to **address** this type of difficulty is investment aid.
  ([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 547898)

- Il s &apos; emploie également à **résoudre** les problèmes d &apos; ordre structurel sous-jacents.
  UNFPA also seeks to **address** underlying systemic issues.
  ([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 20691366)

- La coopération internationale est essentielle pour **résoudre** efficacement la crise alimentaire de manière durable.
  International cooperation was essential to effectively **address** the food crisis in a sustainable way.
  ([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 21208020)

## More sentences

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

- Sa fierté était telle qu'il ne put se **résoudre** à ignorer l'insulte.
  Such was his pride that he could not bring himself to ignore the insult.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CM · checked, community translation · [\#292065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/292065) [\#131339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131339))

- Je suis sûr que nous pouvons **résoudre** cela.
  I'm sure we can work this out.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1655746](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1655746) [\#1662416](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1662416))

- Sais-tu **résoudre** cette énigme ?
  Can you answer this riddle?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CK · checked, community translation · [\#60750](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/60750) [\#770864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/770864))

## Grammar

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