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# respecter — French to English

How French *respecter* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: respectaient (1 125), respectait (1 443), respecte (17 362), respectent (17 934), respecter (93 528), respectes (7), respectez (107), respectons (777), respecté (14 959), respectée (7 668), respectées (17 135), respectés (13 390). By style: everyday 263 · literary 6 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 18 318 · legal and administrative 24 581 · UN documents 142 263.

## respect

Used about 66 938 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 161 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 7 320 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 500 · UN documents ≈ 54 953). Forms: respect, respected. Meaning: [respect in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/respect/).

- Je le **respecte** encore.
  I still **respect** him.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zarisi and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3910765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3910765) [\#8764651](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8764651))

- Quant à nous, nous **respectons** çà et là et nous épargnons partout le passé, pourvu qu'il consente à être mort.
  As for us, we **respect** the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10962)

- D’ailleurs, puisque nos pères selon la chair nous ont châtiés, et que nous les avons **respectés**, ne devons-nous pas à bien plus forte raison nous soumettre au Père des esprits, pour avoir la vie?
  Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them **respect**. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 12:9)

- Je **respecte** le peuple.
  I **respect** the people.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1514682)

- Ces droits devraient être promus et **respectés**.
  Those rights should be promoted and **respected**.
  ([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 3090027)

## comply

Used about 28 277 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 457 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 062 · UN documents ≈ 21 758). Forms: compliance, comply. Meaning: [comply in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/comply/).

- Que l'université qui ne **respecte** pas les programmes perde les subventions.
  Universities that do not **comply**, however, must forfeit their subsidies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 100571)

- les quantités de produits qui ne **respectaient** pas ces valeurs limites.
  quantities of products which did not **comply** with those limits.
  ([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 1120893)

- Au 6 juillet 2011, le Luxembourg ne **respectait** toujours pas son obligation.
  As of 6 July 2011, Luxembourg remained in non-**compliance**.
  ([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 24548887)

- Rien ne justifie que la Russie ne **respecte** pas son engagement envers les droits de l'homme.
  There really is no excuse for Russia not to **comply** with its own commitment to human rights.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1426782)

- des précisions sur la manière dont les TAC adoptés **respectent** le paragraphe 2.
  details on how the TACs adopted **comply** with paragraph 2.
  ([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 5145051)

## requirements

Used about 10 243 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 173 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 375 · UN documents ≈ 6 695).

- Les conditions qui, selon vous, en découlent sont donc également **respectées**.
  The **requirements** that you derived from this are therefore also met.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1316173)

- les exigences de l’article 13 sont **respectées**;
  the **requirements** of Article 13 are met;
  ([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 3253825)

- Non seulement il acceptait et **respectait** toutes les conditions posées, mais il les dépassait.
  This group did not just accept and fulfil all **requirements** but exceeded them.
  ([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 20157301)

- Il est frappant de constater que le gouvernement et la compagnie maritime s' obstinent à affirmer que le "Samina" **respectait** toutes les normes de sécurité.
  What amazes me is that the Government and the company both insist that the Express Samina complied with all the safety **requirements**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 102032)

- Les exigences ci-après doivent être **respectées**:
  The following **requirements** shall be fulfilled:
  ([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 999415)

## must

Used about 4 804 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 110 · legal and administrative ≈ 337 · UN documents ≈ 3 347). Meaning: [must in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/must/).

- Nous devons **respecter** la loi.
  We **must** obey the law.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#3680877](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3680877) [\#5923137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5923137))

- Du reste, que chacun de vous aime sa femme comme lui-même, et que la femme **respecte** son mari.
  Nevertheless each of you **must** also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 5:33)

- Les droits du travail doivent être **respectés**.
  Labour rights **must** not be violated.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1218643)

- **Respecter** scrupuleusement cet ordre pour éviter la décomposition de la pepsine.
  This order **must** be followed strictly to avoid decomposition of the pepsin.
  ([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 760035)

- Ils devront être **respectés** dans les directions les plus occultées.
  They **must** be adhered to in the directions in which there is most occultation.
  ([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 28226059)

## rules

Used about 3 377 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 39 · parliamentary ≈ 659 · legal and administrative ≈ 169 · UN documents ≈ 2 511).

- J'ai **respecté** les règles.
  I followed the **rules**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2326542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2326542) [\#2422833](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2422833))

- L'enjeu consiste à ce que l'UE **respecte** ses propres règles.
  It is a case of the EU having to follow its own **rules**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 204458)

- les règles et règlements de la société de classification sont **respectés**,
  the classification society's **rules** and regulations are complied with;
  ([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 3905036)

- Nous **respectons** les règles du bon voisinage.
  We follow the **rules** of good neighbourliness.
  ([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 3189489)

- On doit **respecter** les règles.
  We have to go by the **rules**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#33578](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/33578) [\#334722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/334722))

## More sentences

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

- J'ai une échéance à **respecter**.
  I have a deadline to meet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3822481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3822481) [\#10680376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10680376))

- Tu dois **respecter** la loi.
  You have to obey the law.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#2801422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2801422) [\#459490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/459490))

- Comme j'ai un budget à **respecter**, je vais au restaurant pas plus de trois fois par semaine.
  I'm on a budget, so I don't eat out more than three times a week.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and kamikun · checked, community translation · [\#4208255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4208255) [\#4208714](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4208714))

## 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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