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# opening — English to French

How English *opening* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: opening (70 015), openings (2 961). By style: everyday 97 · literary 34 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 4 796 · legal and administrative 13 093 · UN documents 54 947.

## ouverture

Used about 52 178 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 2 898 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 592 · UN documents ≈ 40 638). Forms: ouverture, ouvertures.

- I wasn't invited to the **opening** ceremony.
  Je ne fus pas invité à la cérémonie d'**ouverture**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7445334](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7445334) [\#7459011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7459011))

- “But the papers announced the **opening** of the railway throughout.”
  --Les journaux ont pourtant annoncé l'**ouverture** complète du railway!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 687)

- Does a spring send out from the same **opening** fresh and bitter water?
  La source fait-elle jaillir par la même **ouverture** l’eau douce et l’eau amère?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 3:11)

- **Opening** of the sitting
  **Ouverture** de la séance
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1219636)

- **Openings** are permitted in heads only.
  Seules les ogives peuvent comporter des **ouvertures**.
  ([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 5436326)

## session

Used about 1 717 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 717).

- **Opening** of the session
  Opening of the **session**
  ([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 3123599)

- 1. **Opening** of the session
  1. Opening of the **session**
  ([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 2087750)

- 10. In her **opening** statement, the ChairpersonRapporteur of the seventeenth session welcomed the participants to the eighteenth session of the Working Group.
  10. Dans son allocution liminaire, la PrésidenteRapporteuse de la dixseptième **session** a souhaité la bienvenue à tous les participants à la dixhuitième session du Groupe de travail.
  ([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 7317374)

## ouvrir

Used about 1 053 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 33 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 200 · legal and administrative ≈ 818).

- He tried **opening** the door.
  Il a essayé d'**ouvrir** la porte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#298229](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/298229) [\#131221](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131221))

- The old man took this case and gazed at it for some time without **opening** it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass under his very nose.
  Le vieillard prit cette boîte et la considéra quelque temps sans l'**ouvrir**, avec cet air de volupté, de ravissement et de colère d'un pauvre diable affamé regardant passer sous son nez un admirable dîner qui ne serait pas pour lui.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13832)

- The monopolies will have to be prepared to pay substantial sums in compensation if they delay **opening** up their networks.
  Ces sociétés devront se voir obligées de payer de fortes indemnités si elles tardent à **ouvrir** leurs réseaux.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 111333)

- See **Opening** decision, recital 41.
  Voir la décision d'**ouvrir** la procédure, considérant 41.
  ([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 3873939)

- Tom is **opening** the window.
  Tom est en train d'**ouvrir** la fenêtre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#5615923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5615923) [\#4193462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4193462))

## More sentences

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

- It was an eye-**opening** experience.
  Ce fut une expérience qui m'ouvrit les yeux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1931935](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1931935) [\#1932753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1932753))

- Would you mind my **opening** the door?
  Vous voulez bien que j'ouvre la porte ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#39004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/39004) [\#1186150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1186150))

- She is **opening** the window.
  Elle ouvre la fenêtre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by piksea and Pharamp · checked, community translation · [\#859982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/859982) [\#377295](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/377295))

## 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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