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# responsabilité — French to English

How French *responsabilité* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: responsabilité (187 935), responsabilités (90 801). By style: everyday 160 · literary 1 · parliamentary 22 179 · legal and administrative 17 284 · UN documents 239 112.

## responsibility

Used about 221 608 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 123 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 18 714 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 983 · UN documents ≈ 191 788). Forms: responsibilities, responsibility. Meaning: [responsibility in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/responsibility/).

- J'ai des **responsabilités**.
  I've got **responsibilities**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2248391](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2248391) [\#2433255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2433255))

- Heureusement quelqu'un vint le tirer d'embarras et assumer la **responsabilité**.
  Luckily, some one came to rescue him from his embarrassment, and assume the **responsibility**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 257)

- Et la **responsabilité** humaine est très importante.
  And human **responsibility** is very important.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1349221)

- **Responsabilités** de la Commission
  **Responsibilities** of the Commission
  ([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 736437)

- Il se sent une **responsabilité** particulière.
  It feels a special **responsibility**.
  ([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 8735450)

## liability

Used about 19 064 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 693 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 421 · UN documents ≈ 14 945). Meaning: [liability in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/liability/).

- La société n'a pas reconnu sa **responsabilité**.
  The company didn't admit **liability**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4529399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4529399) [\#9118058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9118058))

- Je pense à notre règlement relatif à la **responsabilité** en cas de produit défectueux.
  I am thinking, for example, of our regulation on **liability** in the case of defective products.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1630561)

- TRAITEMENT DES DONNÉES, PROTECTION DES DONNÉES ET **RESPONSABILITÉ**
  DATA PROCESSING, DATA PROTECTION AND **LIABILITY**
  ([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 2958798)

- **Responsabilité** pénale des personnes morales
  **Liability** of legal persons
  ([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 26096785)

- Au Canada, lorsque des pirates informatiques volent l'argent des clients, les banques en ligne déclinent toute **responsabilité**.
  In Canada, when hackers steal customers’ money, online banks disclaim **liability**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and marioo · checked, community translation · [\#8338127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8338127) [\#10002707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10002707))

## must

Used about 466 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 462). Meaning: [must in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/must/).

- Tout le monde doit prendre ses **responsabilités**.
  Everyone **must** be responsible.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12530799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12530799) [\#1078641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1078641))

- La Commission doit prendre ses **responsabilités** très au sérieux conformément à l'article 11, paragraphe 1.
  The Commission **must** take very seriously its tasks under Article 11(1).
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1222454)

- Toutes les grandes économies doivent prendre leurs **responsabilités** si nous voulons éviter les conséquences dangereuses du changement climatique.
  All major economies **must** step up to the plate if we are to avoid the dangerous consequences of climate change.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3651021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3651021) [\#11077045](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11077045))

- L'Europe doit rappeler avec force les États à leurs **responsabilités** et à l'impératif de stabilité et de service des générations futures.
  Europe **must** strongly reprimand the States to be responsible, stable and serve the future generations.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1391455)

## More sentences

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

- Elle a endossé la **responsabilité**.
  She took the blame.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Ussis · checked, community translation · [\#12850543](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12850543) [\#14041851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14041851))

- Bill a assumé la **responsabilité** des pertes.
  Bill took the blame for the loss.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and CN · checked, community translation · [\#274550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274550) [\#801209](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/801209))

- Cette **responsabilité** devrait incomber aux plateformes.
  The onus should fall on platforms.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#12929725](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12929725) [\#12929726](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12929726))

## Grammar

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