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# reserve — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: reserve (28 604), reserves (21 393). By style: everyday 38 · literary 6 · parliamentary 2 834 · legal and administrative 8 691 · UN documents 38 428.

## réserves

Used about 45 985 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 450 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 876 · UN documents ≈ 35 626). Forms: réserve, réserver, réserves.

- I'd like to **reserve** a seat.
  J'aimerais **réserver** une place.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#272108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/272108) [\#1339539](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1339539))

- A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel deployed before Lobau’s corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia debouched from the forest of Paris, Plancenoit was in flames, and the Prussian cannon-balls began to rain even upon the ranks of the guard in **reserve** behind Napoleon.
  Peu après, les divisions Losthin, Hiller, Hacke et Ryssel se déployaient devant le corps de Lobau, la cavalerie du prince Guillaume de Prusse débouchait du bois de Paris, Plancenoit était en flammes, et les boulets prussiens commençaient à pleuvoir jusque dans les rangs de la garde en **réserve** derrière Napoléon.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7306)

- So are those **reserves** or not?
  Alors, sont-ce oui ou non des **réserves**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1364150)

- Target Escrow Amounts/**Reserves**
  Montants/**réserves** de garantie cibles
  ([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 5251625)

- **Reserves** and fund balances
  **Réserves** et solde des fonds
  ([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 30183184)

## fonds

Used about 611 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 30 · legal and administrative ≈ 181 · UN documents ≈ 400).

- That means banks will be encouraged and rewarded for minimising risk and maintaining proper **reserves** of capital against their liabilities.
  Cela signifie que les banques seront encouragées et récompensées quand elles réduisent les risques et conservent des **fonds** propres pour faire face à leurs créances.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 121894)

- Adjustment for the change in net equity of households in pension funds **reserves**
  Ajustement pour variation des droits des ménages sur les **fonds** des pensions
  ([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 702258)

- Figure III 22. Transfer of funds to other United Nations agencies charged from the **reserves** of the UNMOVIC escrow account amounting to $22.71 million was made as at 31 December 2005.
  Au 31 décembre 2005, des **fonds** d &apos; un montant total de 22 710 000 dollars avaient été prélevés sur le compte séquestre au profit d &apos; autres organismes des Nations Unies.
  ([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 15986924)

- Net equity of households in life insurance **reserves** and in pension funds **reserves** held by HHs
  Droits nets des ménages sur les provisions techniques d’assurance vie et sur les **fonds** de pension détenus par les MM
  ([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 622380)

## More sentences

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

- Did you **reserve** a table at the restaurant?
  Tu as réservé une table au restaurant ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8856937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8856937) [\#8856997](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8856997))

- Did you **reserve** a table?
  As-tu réservé une table ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and hustledynamo · checked, community translation · [\#8928810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8928810) [\#12202787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12202787))

- Did you **reserve** a table?
  Avez-vous réservé une table ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and hustledynamo · checked, community translation · [\#8928810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8928810) [\#12202788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12202788))

## 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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