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Avez-vous regardé la cérémonie de **clôture** des Jeux olympiques? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#5391316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5391316) [\#5391348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5391348)) - **Closing** of the session **Clôture** de la session annuelle ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1689823) - SP **closing** stocks (tonnes) Stocks de **clôture** des P.E. (en tonnes) ([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 1568287) - **Closing** of the list of speakers **Clôture** de la liste des orateurs ([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 24191803) - He is planning on inviting a lot of guests to the **closing** ceremony. Il pense inviter beaucoup de gens à la cérémonie de **clôture**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by JimBreen and aperitero · checked, community translation · [\#6608920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6608920) [\#6609035](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6609035)) ## fermer Used about 3 903 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 197 · legal and administrative ≈ 446 · UN documents ≈ 3 244). Forms: fermer, fermeture. - The bar is **closing** soon. Le bar va bientôt **fermer**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2583340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2583340) [\#10759687](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10759687)) - So he walked along, very thoughtfully, behind the young girl, who hastened her pace and made her goat trot as she saw the bourgeois returning home and the taverns—the only shops which had been open that day—**closing**. Il marchait donc tout pensif derrière la jeune fille qui hâtait le pas et faisait trotter sa jolie chèvre en voyant rentrer les bourgeois et se **fermer** les tavernes, seules boutiques qui eussent été ouvertes ce jour-là. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1037) - We must not respond by **closing** doors and by equating immigrants with criminals. Nous ne pouvons pas nous contenter de **fermer** les portes et de qualifier tous les migrants de délinquants. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1494525) - **Closing** of automatically operated service doors. **Fermeture** des portes de service automatiques ([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 5477520) - The response time, both when opening and **closing**, shall not exceed 0.5 s. Le temps de réponse, à l ' ouverture comme à la **fermeture**, ne doit pas dépasser 0,5 s. ([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 29827745) ## alors Used about 3 266 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 22 · UN documents ≈ 3 244). - Nor is it acceptable that I am promoting the use of French trains on the German network whilst France is **closing** its network to other providers. Il n'est pas non plus acceptable que j'encourage l'utilisation de trains français sur le réseau allemand **alors** que la France ferme son réseau à d'autres fournisseurs. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 901483) - During intermittent **closings** of First Avenue, the only entry point to the premises will be through the 48th Street entrance to the garage. On ne pourra **alors** accéder au bâtiment que par l’entrée du garage, à la 48e Rue. ([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 6647216) - Therefore, during intermittent **closings** of First Avenue, the only entry point to the premises will be through the 49th Street crossing and the checkpoint at 48th Street. On ne pourra **alors** accéder aux bâtiments de l ' ONU que par la 49e Rue et au point de contrôle de la 48e Rue. ([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 7375339) - Therefore, during intermittent **closings** of First Avenue, the only entry point to the premises will be through the 49th Street crossing and the checkpoint at 48th Street. Il ne sera **alors** possible d ' accéder aux bâtiments de l ' ONU que par la 49e Rue et au point de contrôle de la 48e Rue. ([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 14311405) - During such intermittent **closings**, pedestrian traffic will be suspended until the motorcades enter or depart from the United Nations complex. La circulation des piétons sera **alors** suspendue jusqu ' à ce que le cortège ait pénétré à l ' intérieur de l ' enceinte du Siège ou en soit sorti. ([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 28593950) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I'm not **closing** them. Je ne les ferme pas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9177044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9177044) [\#1893189](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1893189)) - We're **closing** in fifteen minutes. On ferme dans quinze minutes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11257142](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11257142) [\#11268047](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11268047)) - Would you mind **closing** the door? Pourrais-tu refermer la porte ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bmorsello and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#38987](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/38987) [\#1186143](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1186143)) ## 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. 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