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# occupied — English to French

How English *occupied* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [occupied in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/occupied/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: occupied (64 818). By style: everyday 41 · literary 23 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 985 · legal and administrative 971 · UN documents 62 797.

## occupé

Used about 50 006 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 759 · legal and administrative ≈ 809 · UN documents ≈ 48 406). Forms: occupé, occupées, occupés.

- Try to keep him **occupied**.
  Essaie de le tenir **occupé**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6726832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6726832) [\#12684646](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12684646))

- This post was **occupied** by the National Guards of the suburbs.
  Ce poste était **occupé** par des gardes nationaux de la banlieue.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25276)

- East Jerusalem is **occupied** territory, together with the rest of the West Bank.
  Jérusalem-Est est un territoire **occupé**, tout comme le reste de la Cisjordanie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1317716)

- premises **occupied** in Luxembourg (Kirchberg).
  locaux **occupés** à Luxembourg (Kirchberg).
  ([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 4124125)

- The **Occupied** Palestinian Territory: the Gaza Strip
  Le territoire palestinien **occupé**: la bande de Gaza
  ([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 20315558)

## territoires

Used about 4 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4). Forms: territoire, territoires.

- The armed forces **occupied** the entire territory.
  Les forces armées occupèrent l’entièreté du **territoire**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#237812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/237812) [\#1662627](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1662627))

- What is the quality of the water that the Palestinians drink in the **occupied** territories?
  Quelle est la qualité de l'eau que boivent les Palestiniens dans les **territoires** occupés ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LinguisticFusion and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#5013996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5013996) [\#5007161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5007161))

- This United Nations resolution calls for the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories **occupied** in the recent conflict.
  Cette résolution des Nations Unies appelle au retrait des forces armées israéliennes de **territoires** occupés dans le récent conflit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Archibald and Archibald · checked, community translation · [\#473703](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/473703) [\#2095422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2095422))

- This United Nations resolution calls for the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories **occupied** in the recent conflict.
  Cette résolution des Nations Unies appelle au retrait des forces armées israéliennes des **territoires** occupés dans le récent conflit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Archibald and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#473703](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/473703) [\#474785](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/474785))

## More sentences

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

- The house is not **occupied** now.
  La maison est actuellement inoccupée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CC and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#49365](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49365) [\#4860475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4860475))

- The mystery of life **occupied** his thoughts.
  Le mystère de la vie occupait ses pensées.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#11615966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11615966) [\#1949709](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1949709))

- The city was soon **occupied** by the soldiers.
  Bientôt, la cité fut occupée par les soldats.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#47355](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/47355) [\#334294](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/334294))

## 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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