Question 1

What does "rapporter" mean in French?

Accepted Answer

To bring a thing back, to return it to the place where it was.
To bring back things from a given place, without having taken them there.
To bring things to a place where they were not before, and to someone who did not own them before, things that have been taken away.
To bring in return.
For the dog to bring back the game killed, to the hunter.
To fetch what is thrown to it, such as a glove, a piece of wood, a ball, etc., when speaking of a trained dog.
To join, add something to what does not appear to be complete.
To take from a place, in order to carry them to another, when speaking of land.
To return to the mass of the inheritance what has been received in advance, or to account for it on the share that one is to have.
To perform the same procedure, when speaking of goods that belong in common to a commercial company, or to other people interested in some lucrative affair.
To revoke, to abrogate, to cancel.
To recount what one has seen, or heard, or learned.
To denounce, to tell the faults of others.
To repeat lightly or maliciously what one has heard said.
To report what one has heard said against someone.
To bring back, to direct towards an end, a goal.
To attribute; to trace back.
To produce, either in fruits or in money, to give a certain income.
To set forth the status of a lawsuit in writing.
It is sometimes used absolutely.
To give an account of a matter on behalf of a commission, a committee, and at the same time to state the opinion of the committee, of the commission.
To trace on paper measures, angles, after having noted them on the ground.
To have conformity, convenience, resemblance.
To have a connection, a relation.
To refer to someone about something and, absolutely, to refer to someone, to entrust one's decision about something to him.
To refer to someone, to something: to trust someone, to give faith to something.

Question 2

Where does the French word "rapporter" come from?

Accepted Answer

from re- and apporter, in the sense of ('bring back', 'relate a thing to another', 'by a logical relationship').

Question 3

What is the translation of "rapporter" into english?

Accepted Answer

bring back

Question 4

How to translate "rapporter" into spanish?

Accepted Answer

relatar

Question 5

How to translate "rapporter" into portuguese?

Accepted Answer

relatar

Question 6

What is the translation of "rapporter" into german?

Accepted Answer

zurückbringen

Question 7

How to translate "rapporter" into italian?

Accepted Answer

rapportare

rapporter

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