Elamur: [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [Parse](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/parse/) · [Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · **Translate** · [Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [MCP](https://mcp.elamur.ai/) · [Groupants](https://md.groupants.elamur.ai/free/en/)

This page as HTML: <https://translate.elamur.ai/free/en/en-fr/closed/>

# closed — English to French

How English *closed* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 7 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: closed (100 238). By style: everyday 420 · literary 71 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 8 164 · legal and administrative 4 970 · UN documents 86 600.

## privée

Used about 63 146 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 63 146).

- 6 p.m. **closed** meeting Room 7
  18 heures réunion **privée** conférence 7
  ([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 1241720)

- 15:00 **Closed** meeting Conference Room 3
  15 heures Séance **privée** Salle de conférence 3
  ([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 30052555)

- 6307th (**closed**) meeting, held on 5 May 2010.
  6307e séance (**privée**), tenue le 5 mai 2010
  ([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 23189411)

- 3 p.m. **Closed** meeting Consultations Room
  15 heures Séance **privée** Salle de consultations
  ([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 17636071)

- 2. Adoption of list of issues (**closed**)
  2. Adoption de la liste des points à traiter (**privée**)
  ([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 26682961)

## clos

Used about 9 021 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 5 103 · legal and administrative ≈ 311 · UN documents ≈ 3 608).

- The debate is **closed**.
  Le débat est **clos**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1855137)

- The call was **closed** on 20 June 2013.
  Cet appel a été **clos** le 20 juin 2013.
  ([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 3124678)

- The file would therefore be **closed**.
  Le dossier serait donc **clos**.
  ([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 19061484)

- The meetings of the Joint Committee shall be held behind **closed** doors, unless the Chair, in agreement with the Parties, decides that the meeting shall be public.
  Les réunions du comité mixte se tiennent à huis **clos**, sauf si le président décide de rendre la réunion publique, en accord avec les parties.
  ([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 4538825)

- Special advocates are used to represent the interests of the individuals in **closed** sessions.
  Des &lt; &lt; avocats spéciaux &gt; &gt; représentent les intérêts des individus à huis **clos**.
  ([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 22430764)

## séance

Used about 3 335 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 531 · UN documents ≈ 1 804).

- The debate is **closed**.
  La **séance** est levée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1263689)

- 109. At the same meeting, the President of the Council declared **closed** the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2011 of the Council.
  À la même **séance**, le Président du Conseil a déclaré que le débat de haut niveau de la session de fond de 2011 du Conseil était clos.
  ([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 25241290)

- (The sitting was **closed** at 11.50)
  (La **séance** est levée à 11 h 50)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1288094)

- (The sitting was **closed** at 4.25 p.m.)
  (La **séance** est levée à 16h25)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 874598)

- (The sitting was **closed** at 8.30 p.m.)
  (La **séance** est levée à 20h30)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1912556)

## réunion

Used about 1 804 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 804).

- The Chairperson thanked the WGSO for the constructive discussion and **closed** the meeting.
  13. Le Président a remercié le Groupe de travail pour le caractère constructif du débat et a prononcé la clôture de la **réunion**.
  ([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 17244172)

## salle

Used about 1 804 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 804).

- 10:00 to 13:00 Informal consultations (**closed**) Conference Room 5 (NLB)
  10 à 13 heures Consultations officieuses (privées) **Salle** de conférence 5 (NLB)
  ([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 28427552)

## heures

Used about 207 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 207).

- The system is incubated for up to 72 hours at room temperature in a **closed** humid chamber.
  Le système est incubé pendant 72 **heures** au maximum à température ambiante dans une étuve humide fermée.
  ([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 2095906)

- **Closed** cycle type with a specified Mean-Time-To-Failure (MTTF) or Mean-Time-Between-Failures (MTBF), exceeding 2500 hours;
  à cycle fermé et ayant une valeur spécifiée du temps moyen (observé) jusqu'à défaillance (MTTF) ou du temps moyen de bon fonctionnement (MTBF) dépassant 2500 **heures**;
  ([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 4980948)

## débat

Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1).

- They stopped up their ears to the musket shots, **closed** their shutters, barricaded their doors, allowed the matter to be concluded with or without the watch, and the next day it was said in Paris, “Étienne Barbette was broken open last night.
  Ils se bouchaient les oreilles à la mousquetade, fermaient leurs volets, barricadaient leurs portes, laissaient le **débat** se vider avec ou sans le guet, et le lendemain on se disait dans Paris: «Cette nuit, Étienne Barbette a été forcé.»
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7014)

## More sentences

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

- Who **closed** the window?
  Qui a fermé la fenêtre ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7355884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7355884) [\#7355805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7355805))

- The old man sat on a bench with his eyes **closed**.
  Le vieil homme était assis sur un banc, les yeux fermés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#10639775](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10639775) [\#837730](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/837730))

- I **closed** the trunk.
  J'ai fermé le coffre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#5859401](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5859401) [\#2882915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2882915))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

## About these examples

Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. [Submit a better translation or example](https://md.translate.elamur.ai/free/en/submit/?pair=en-fr&word=closed).


Every example is quoted under its source's licence and credited with it; the rest of the site is open under the Elamur Cosmic License.
