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# lieu — French to English

How French *lieu* 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: lieu (436 580), lieue (12), lieues (80), lieus (202), lieux (58 642). By style: everyday 636 · literary 109 · biblical 647 · parliamentary 29 865 · legal and administrative 92 194 · UN documents 372 065.

## place

Used about 105 241 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 197 · literary ≈ 36 · biblical ≈ 458 · parliamentary ≈ 6 788 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 488 · UN documents ≈ 77 275). Forms: place, places. Meaning: [place in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/place/).

- Tu es en **lieu** sûr.
  You are at a safe **place**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and peterius · checked, community translation · [\#5870602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5870602) [\#468903](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/468903))

- --Et ce sacrifice aura **lieu**?...
  “And the sacrifice will take **place**—”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 840)

- Le troisième jour, Abraham, levant les yeux, vit le **lieu** de loin.
  On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the **place** far off.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 22:4)

- Le vote aura **lieu** prochainement.
  The vote will take **place** shortly.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1186735)

- **Lieu** de naissance: Hama
  **Place** of birth: Hama;
  ([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 4508831)

## alaska

Used about 23 048 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 23 048).

- **Lieus** d'Alaska (Theragra chalcogramma)
  **Alaska** pollock (Theragra chalcogramma)
  ([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 4058082)

- **Lieus** d'Alaska (Theragra chalcogramma)
  **Alaska** pollack (Theragra chalcogramma)
  ([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 4035758)

- **Lieus** d'Alaska (Theragra chalcogramma)
  **Alaska** Pollack (Theragra chalcogramma)
  ([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 5073039)

- **Lieus** d'Alaska (Theragra chalcogramma)
  **Alaska** Pollack (Theragra chalcogramma):
  ([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 186769)

- **Lieus** d’Alaska (Theragra chalcogramma)
  **Alaska** Pollack (Theragra chalcogramma)
  ([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 344457)

## where

Used about 9 730 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 2 715 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 280 · UN documents ≈ 5 724). Meaning: [where in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/where/).

- L'ordre d'Enjolras fut exécuté avec la hâte correcte propre aux navires et aux barricades, les deux seuls **lieux** de combat d'où l'évasion soit impossible.
  Enjolras’ order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat **where** escape is impossible.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26645)

- Ainsi parle l’Éternel: Le ciel est mon trône, Et la terre mon marchepied. Quelle maison pourriez-vous me bâtir, Et quel **lieu** me donneriez-vous pour demeure?
  The LORD says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? **Where** will I rest?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 66:1)

- L’Estonie était le seul pays occupé dans lequel des programmes provocateurs n’ont pas eu **lieu**.
  Estonia was the only occupied country **where** provoking programmes did not succeed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 832351)

- Les observations orales et écrites présentées par les parties intéressées ont été examinées et prises en considération lorsqu’il y avait **lieu**.
  The oral and written comments submitted by the interested parties were considered and taken into account **where** appropriate.
  ([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 2883286)

- Les fonctionnaires de l &apos; Organisation des Nations Unies et leur famille doivent être informés des **lieux** où ils peuvent obtenir du sang non contaminé.
  2. All United Nations staff members and their families should be made aware of locations **where** safe blood supplies may be obtained.
  ([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 11120357)

## More sentences

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

- Les résidents du **lieu** sont très hospitaliers.
  The local residents are very hospitable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#12055116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12055116) [\#12055301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12055301))

- Il paraît que la plupart des accidents d'avion a **lieu** lors des phases d'atterrissage et de décollage.
  They say most airplane accidents occur at landing or takeoff stages.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#567061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/567061) [\#566570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/566570))

- Je ne suis pas sûr que quoi que ce soit ait eu **lieu**.
  I'm not sure anything happened.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2541834](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2541834) [\#4862214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4862214))

## 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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