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# bureau — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: bureau (470 750), bureaue (1), bureaus (38), bureaux (108 184). By style: everyday 866 · literary 6 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 4 211 · legal and administrative 16 025 · UN documents 557 864.

## office

Used about 269 378 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 539 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 281 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 349 · UN documents ≈ 256 204). Forms: office, offices. Meaning: [office in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/office/).

- Sortez de mon **bureau** !
  Get out of my **office**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1845503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1845503) [\#1846026](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1846026))

- --Le **bureau** est fermé, dit Gavroche, je ne reçois plus de plaintes.
  “The **office** is closed,” said Gavroche, “I do not receive any more complaints.”
  ([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)

- En passant, il vit Lévi, fils d’Alphée, assis au **bureau** des péages. Il lui dit: Suis-moi. Lévi se leva, et le suivit.
  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.
  ([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)

- Tertio, il y a les **bureaux** d'assistance technique.
  Thirdly, there are the technical assistance **offices**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1926341)

- **Bureaux** dans l'Union
  **Offices** in the 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 4123284)

## bureau

Used about 216 027 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 272 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 006 · UN documents ≈ 210 749). Forms: bureau, bureaus, bureaux. Meaning: [bureau in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/bureau/).

- - Je saisirai le **Bureau** de cette demande.
  I shall make that request known to the **Bureau**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 679076)

- Amélioration de la coopération entre les **bureaux** Sirene et les BCN Interpol
  Improvement of cooperation between the SIRENE **bureaux** and the Interpol NCBs
  ([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 2264742)

- Élection du **bureaus** \[2 a)\]
  Élection du **bureaus** \[2 a)\]
  ([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 2119859)

- Telles sont exactement les limites de la décision du **Bureau**.
  These were the limitations set on the **Bureau**'s decision.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1785776)

- Les **bureaux** Sirene sont toutefois tenus de fournir des statistiques sur les réponses positives.
  However, Sirene **bureaux** should provide statistics on hits.
  ([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 845707)

## customs

Used about 88 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 88).

- Mes collègues savent que c'est par trop typique des **bureaux** de contrôle des douanes dans toute l'Europe.
  Colleagues around the House will know that is all too typical at **customs** points all around Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 284062)

- Toutes les parties intéressées - **bureaux** de douane, partenaires commerciaux, transporteurs, banques et assurances - devraient autant que possible y être associées.
  The other parties - **customs** services, trading partners, freight companies and banks and insurance houses - should also be involved as far as possible.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1860102)

## More sentences

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

- Y a-t-il un stylo sur le **bureau** ?
  Is there a pen on the desk?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sbamsbamsbam and CK · checked, community translation · [\#20571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20571) [\#4099337](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4099337))

- Il a laissé sa clé sur le **bureau**, comme à son habitude.
  He left his key on the desk, as he usually did.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4308783](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4308783) [\#8628135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8628135))

- Pourquoi es-tu sous le **bureau** ?
  Why are you under the desk?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Liface · checked, community translation · [\#38693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/38693) [\#408607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/408607))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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