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Forms: heure, heures. - Office **opens** at 4.30 p.m. **Heure** d’ouverture : 16 h 30 ([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 6489769) - Office **opens** at 3 p.m. **Heure** d ' ouverture : 15 heures ([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 17614311) - 3 - 6 p.m. **Open** meeting Conference Room 7 15 à 18 **heures** Séance publique Salle de 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 21273651) - The office of the Journal Unit **opens** at 15:00. Le bureau du Groupe du Journal ouvre à 15 **heures**. ([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 30044482) - 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. **Open** meeting Conference Room 10 10 à 13 **heures** Séance publique Salle de conférence 10 ([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 21249003) ## ouvert Used about 39 273 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 352 · literary ≈ 41 · biblical ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 3 073 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 076 · UN documents ≈ 26 713). Forms: ouvert, ouverte, ouverture. - He's very **open**. Il est très **ouvert**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1890731](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1890731) [\#1891864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1891864)) - “He did not **open** the door.” --Il n'a pas **ouvert**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8603) - Their quiver is an **open** tomb. They are all mighty men. Son carquois est comme un sépulcre **ouvert**; Ils sont tous des héros. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 5:16) - This **opens** the floodgates to arbitrariness. La porte est ainsi grande **ouverte** à l'arbitraire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 472285) - is an **open** point. fait l'objet d'un point **ouvert**. ([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 3421706) ## ouvre Used about 7 248 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 535 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 38 · parliamentary ≈ 4 008 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 257 · UN documents ≈ 1 406). - Jim **opens** the door. Jim **ouvre** la porte. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CP and Batko · checked, community translation · [\#53357](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/53357) [\#1018539](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1018539)) - He crawled flat on his belly, galloped on all fours, took his basket in his teeth, twisted, glided, undulated, wound from one dead body to another, and emptied the cartridge-box or cartouche as a monkey **opens** a nut. Il rampait à plat ventre, galopait à quatre pattes, prenait son panier aux dents, se tordait, glissait, ondulait, serpentait d'un mort à l'autre, et vidait la giberne ou la cartouchière comme un singe **ouvre** une noix. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26343) - **Open** your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. Liban, **ouvre** tes portes, Et que le feu dévore tes cèdres! ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 11:1) - It **opens** a single door to 27 labour markets. Elle **ouvre** une seule porte donnant accès à 27 marchés du travail. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1166586) - The pipeline, in fact, **opens** up the prospect of a European single market for propylene. En fait, le pipeline **ouvre** un marché européen unique du propylène. ([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 538704) ## porte Used about 398 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 107 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 267). - I made him **open** the door. Je lui ai fait ouvrir la **porte**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#260389](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/260389) [\#127666](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/127666)) - “When does the porter **open** that door?” --Quand le concierge ouvre-t-il cette **porte**-là? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11846) - Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t **open** his mouth in the gate. La sagesse est trop élevée pour l’insensé; Il n’ouvrira pas la bouche à la **porte**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 24:7) - Any delay will **open** the gates to the plain theft of intellectual property. Tout retard ouvrira la **porte** au vol pur et simple de la propriété intellectuelle. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1443513) - I tried to **open** the door. J'ai essayé d'ouvrir la **porte**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11027319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11027319) [\#13959047](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13959047)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - They have an **open** relationship. Ils entretiennent une relation libre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2298164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2298164) [\#11304357](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11304357)) - You're very **open**. Vous êtes très ouverts. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2218494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2218494) [\#2227177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2227177)) - This technology will **open** up a whole new avenue of research. Cette technologie ouvrira une toute nouvelle voie de recherche. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#538923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/538923) [\#540226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/540226)) ## 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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