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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by luci and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#4320430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4320430) [\#8609144](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8609144)) - At the fortress of Saint-Antoine, at the Palais de Justice of Paris, at the Louvre, these subterranean edifices were **prisons**. À la bastille Saint-Antoine, au Palais de Justice de Paris, au Louvre, ces édifices souterrains étaient des **prisons**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5141) - Thirdly, **prisons** are not hotels. Troisièmement, les **prisons** ne sont pas des hôtels. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1052061) - Head of Iran’s **Prisons** Organisation. Chef de l'organisation des **prisons** iraniennes. ([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 2242524) - Mr. Teddy Chola, Zambia **Prisons** Service; Mr. Teddy Chola, Zambia **Prisons** Service; ([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 18509246) ## détenus Used about 621 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 29 · UN documents ≈ 592). - There are over 2 000 Kosovo Albanians held in Serbian **prisons**, most of them since spring 1999, that is before the NATO offensive. On y trouve plus de 2 000 Albanais du Kosovo, la plupart y étant **détenus** depuis le printemps 1999, avant donc les attaques de l'OTAN. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 65768) - After the earthquake, the priorities were altered to ensuring the security of the **prisons** and well-being of detainees. Après le séisme, la sécurité des établissements pénitentiaires et les conditions de vie des **détenus** sont devenues prioritaires. ([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 23219944) - On a delegation visit to Kazakhstan in September, I received conclusive evidence of the most brutal treatment in **prisons**. J'ai accompagné une délégation en visite au Kazakhstan en septembre et j'ai eu la preuve manifeste de la brutalité des traitements infligés aux **détenus**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1429400) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into **prisons** both men and women, J’ai persécuté à mort cette doctrine, liant et mettant en prison hommes et femmes. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 22:4) - But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in **prisons**. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’ Et c’est un peuple pillé et dépouillé! On les a tous enchaînés dans des cavernes, Plongés dans des cachots; Ils ont été mis au pillage, et personne qui les délivre! Dépouillés, et personne qui dise: Restitue! ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 42:22) - But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and **prisons**, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake. Mais, avant tout cela, on mettra la main sur vous, et l’on vous persécutera; on vous livrera aux synagogues, on vous jettera en prison, on vous mènera devant des rois et devant des gouverneurs, à cause de mon nom. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 21:12) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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