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# reconnaître — French to English

How French *reconnaître* 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: reconnaître (38 099). By style: everyday 51 · literary 17 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 5 315 · legal and administrative 1 359 · UN documents 31 348.

## recognise

Used about 20 196 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 29 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 215 · legal and administrative ≈ 963 · UN documents ≈ 16 980). Forms: recognise, recognised, recognize, recognizing. Meaning: [recognise in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/recognise/).

- Allez-vous la **reconnaître**?
  Will you **recognise** her?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10524258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10524258) [\#3968067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3968067))

- --C'est que je crois le **reconnaître**.
  “Because I think I **recognize** him.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6558)

- Mais leurs yeux étaient empêchés de le **reconnaître**.
  But their eyes were kept from **recognizing** him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 24:16)

- Des progrès ont été réalisés et nous devons le **reconnaître**.
  Progress has been made and we should **recognize** that.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1747706)

- Les États membres peuvent **reconnaître** les organisations de producteurs qui:
  Member States may **recognise** producer organisations which:
  ([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 1548836)

## acknowledge

Used about 978 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 886 · legal and administrative ≈ 85). Meaning: [acknowledge in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/acknowledge/).

- Nous devons **reconnaître** cela.
  We have to **acknowledge** that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4529789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4529789) [\#5899397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5899397))

- Il n'est pas possible de **reconnaître** un lien juridique entre la suppression des contrôles des personnes et les mesures complémentaires.
  We must not **acknowledge** a legal link between the abolition of controls on persons and the accompanying measures.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1616588)

- Chaque État membre est tenu de **reconnaître** la subrogation établie par tout autre État membre.
  Each Member State shall be obliged to **acknowledge** this subrogation as provided for by any other Member State.
  ([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 1765816)

- Tu devrais **reconnaître** ton échec.
  You should **acknowledge** your failure.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#16026](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16026) [\#787936](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/787936))

- Je pense dès lors qu'il est vital de voter pour notre résolution qui invite la Turquie à **reconnaître** le génocide arménien.
  I therefore think it is vitally important to vote in favour of our resolution calling on Turkey to **acknowledge** the Armenian genocide.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 984219)

## More sentences

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

- Il est absurde de ne jamais **reconnaître** ses erreurs.
  It's absurd never to admit your mistakes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#20866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20866) [\#11918011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11918011))

- Au fond, Tom savait que c'était de sa faute, mais il n'était pas prêt de le **reconnaître**.
  Tom knew deep down that it was all his fault, but he wasn't about to admit it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#3446451](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3446451) [\#3446605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3446605))

- Je dois **reconnaître** que Tom est fort.
  I must admit that Tom is strong.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Gepardo · checked, community translation · [\#6980629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6980629) [\#6979907](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6979907))

## 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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