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# office — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: office (532 306), offices (111 114). By style: everyday 661 · literary 15 · biblical 45 · parliamentary 16 262 · legal and administrative 26 546 · UN documents 599 891.

## bureau

Used about 394 821 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 531 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 251 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 103 · UN documents ≈ 374 932). Forms: bureau, bureaux.

- She is at the **office**.
  Elle est au **bureau**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2934857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2934857) [\#3446110](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3446110))

- “The **office** is closed,” said Gavroche, “I do not receive any more complaints.”
  --Le **bureau** est fermé, dit Gavroche, je ne reçois plus de plaintes.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20540)

- As he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax **office**. He said to him, “Follow me.” And he arose and followed him.
  En passant, il vit Lévi, fils d’Alphée, assis au **bureau** des péages. Il lui dit: Suis-moi. Lévi se leva, et le suivit.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 2:14)

- We have beautiful **offices**, fully equipped.
  Nous avons de beaux **bureaux**, totalement équipés.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2010985)

- **Offices** in the Union
  **Bureaux** dans l’Union
  ([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 4465730)

## office

Used about 55 885 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 186 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 701 · UN documents ≈ 49 991).

- “You have your **office** of counsellor to the king.
  --Vous avez votre **office** de conseiller du roi.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2397)

- the finely worked garments—the holy garments for Aaron the priest, the garments of his sons to minister in the priest’s **office**—
  les vêtements d’**office**, les vêtements sacrés pour le sacrificateur Aaron, les vêtements de ses fils pour les fonctions du sacerdoce;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 31:10)

- However, it is clear that there must be independent supervision of the work of this future **Office**.
  Il est cependant évident qu'il faudra un contrôle indépendant des travaux de ce futur **Office**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1890981)

- The **Office** may subsequently decide to examine those oppositions separately.
  L'**Office** peut ensuite décider d'examiner ces oppositions séparément.
  ([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 4362744)

- United Nations **Office** at Geneva
  **Office** des Nations Unies à Genève
  ([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 28379561)

## More sentences

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

- She's gone to the post **office** to post a parcel.
  Elle est allée à la poste envoyer un colis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#8503715](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8503715) [\#842688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/842688))

- My aunt used to work at the post **office**.
  Ma tante travaillait à la poste.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11475836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11475836) [\#11475840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11475840))

- The post **office** is closed.
  La poste est fermée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4080949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4080949) [\#7790924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7790924))

## 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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