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# held — English to French

How English *held* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: held (416 822). By style: everyday 226 · literary 71 · biblical 56 · parliamentary 8 441 · legal and administrative 14 844 · UN documents 393 184.

## lieu

Used about 43 449 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 231 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 237 · UN documents ≈ 40 957).

- Rio's carnival is **held** in February.
  Le carnaval de Rio a **lieu** en février.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#328890](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328890) [\#1455882](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1455882))

- When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and **held** on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.
  Dès que le jour parut, il sortit et alla dans un **lieu** désert. Une foule de gens se mirent à sa recherche, et arrivèrent jusqu’à lui; ils voulaient le retenir, afin qu’il ne les quittât point.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 4:42)

- The referendum should have been **held** in 1992.
  Le référendum aurait dû avoir **lieu** en 1992.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2048230)

- Meetings shall be **held** in private unless the Standing Committee decides otherwise.
  Les réunions ont **lieu** à huis clos, à moins que la Commission permanente n'en décide autrement.
  ([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 4172058)

- The oral proceedings were **held** on 11 September 2001.
  La procédure orale a eu **lieu** le 11 septembre 2001.
  ([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 9656171)

## More sentences

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

- I **held** my breath.
  J'ai retenu mon souffle.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5786675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5786675) [\#12016815](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12016815))

- Tom **held** a seat for me.
  Tom a gardé une place pour moi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#37112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/37112) [\#1692832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1692832))

- The Iowa caucuses will be **held** soon.
  Les comités électoraux de l'Iowa se tiendront bientôt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and smonff · checked, community translation · [\#872145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/872145) [\#4698287](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4698287))

## 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/).

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