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# recourir — French to English

How French *recourir* 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: recourir (28 240). By style: everyday 16 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 1 917 · legal and administrative 3 234 · UN documents 23 069.

## use

Used about 6 507 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 479 · legal and administrative ≈ 741 · UN documents ≈ 5 287). Meaning: [use in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/use/).

- Nous devons également **recourir** à cette méthode.
  We must **use** this method too.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 998979)

- Le pouvoir adjudicateur peut **recourir**:
  The contracting authority may **use**:
  ([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 3715845)

- Les États devraient s &apos; abstenir de **recourir** à la menace ou à la force.
  States should refrain from wilful threat or **use** of force.
  ([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 14161414)

- Cela n'empêche pas la police de **recourir** à la torture.
  Nevertheless, the police **use** torture.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1170879)

- Ils peuvent choisir de **recourir** à des marchés bruts ou nets.
  The counties can choose whether to **use** gross or net contracts.
  ([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 5670587)

## resort

Used about 1 197 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 160 · legal and administrative ≈ 67 · UN documents ≈ 961). Meaning: [resort in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/resort/).

- Tu ne devrais pas **recourir** à la boisson.
  You should not **resort** to drinking.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Joseph · checked, community translation · [\#16005](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16005) [\#4860307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4860307))

- Il ne rime à rien de **recourir** aux OGM en cas de surproduction de cultures naturelles.
  It makes no sense to **resort** to GMOs in the event of overproduction of natural crops.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 660699)

- La banque dispose d’un pool considérable d’actifs bancables auxquels elle pourrait **recourir** en cas de problèmes de liquidité.
  The Bank has a considerable pool of eligible assets which it could **resort** to in the event of liquidity shortages.
  ([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 2003540)

- La deuxième obligation consiste à ne pas **recourir** à la menace ou à l &apos; emploi de la force contre des objets spatiaux.
  The second obligation is not to **resort** to the threat or use of force against outer space objects.
  ([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 11801203)

- Nous ne devrions pas **recourir** à la violence.
  We shouldn't **resort** to violence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7805395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7805395) [\#4860320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4860320))

## More sentences

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

- Il se décida à **recourir** à la chirurgie.
  He decided to have surgery.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and piksea · checked, community translation · [\#858856](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/858856) [\#858992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/858992))

- Le policier a remédié à la situation sans **recourir** à la violence.
  The police officer resolved the situation without resorting to violence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#7233044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7233044) [\#13068636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13068636))

- Elle se décida à **recourir** à la chirurgie.
  She decided to have surgery.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and piksea · checked, community translation · [\#858855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/858855) [\#858991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/858991))

## 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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