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# lieux — French to English

How French *lieux* 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: lieux (58 642). By style: everyday 60 · literary 14 · biblical 161 · parliamentary 1 317 · legal and administrative 2 245 · UN documents 54 845.

## places

Used about 17 540 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 94 · parliamentary ≈ 302 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 123 · UN documents ≈ 15 996). Forms: place, places.

- Est-ce que tu connais ces **lieux** ?
  Do you know these **places**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8825351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8825351) [\#9002685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9002685))

- Repaires de la dévotion terrible; antres de vierges; **lieux** féroces.
  Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, ferocious **places**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10909)

- Il ouvrit le rocher, et des eaux coulèrent; Elles se répandirent comme un fleuve dans les **lieux** arides.
  He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry **places**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 105:41)

- Il est clair que les écoles sont d’excellents **lieux** pour faire cela.
  It is clear that schools are excellent **places** in which to do this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 727768)

- **Lieux** de production autorisés
  Authorised **places** of production
  ([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 5255894)

## duty

Used about 11 426 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 11 426). Meaning: [duty in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/duty/).

- Liste des **lieux** d &apos; affectation classés dans les catégories A à E
  List of **duty** stations classified in the A to E categories
  ([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 14308823)

- de pension : forfait applicable dans certains **lieux** d &apos; affectation
  Additional flat rate for boarding (at designated **duty** stations)
  ([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 9707637)

- Les taux sont aussi disproportionnés dans certains **lieux** d &apos; affectation et certaines catégories professionnelles.
  There are also disproportionately high vacancy rates in certain **duty** stations and categories of staff.
  ([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 25405175)

- Les critères de classement des **lieux** d &apos; affectation devraient être redéfinis pour tenir compte de la situation actuelle.
  The criteria for classifying **duty** stations should be restated to reflect the current situation.
  ([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 898258)

- Chaque session de ce cours réunit en moyenne plus de 10 entités des Nations Unies présentes dans plus de 20 **lieux** d &apos; affectation.
  On average, each edition of the course included participants from over 10 United Nations entities across more than 20 **duty** stations.
  ([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 27903795)

## locations

Used about 8 474 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 55 · legal and administrative ≈ 421 · UN documents ≈ 7 998).

- Les restrictions de mouvements d'animaux frappent durement les ressources économiques des **lieux** ou régions où elles sont imposées.
  Animal movement restrictions hit hard the economic resources of the **locations** or regions where they are imposed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1542366)

- Codage numérique standard des **lieux**
  Standard numerical coding of **locations**
  ([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 3971365)

- Encadré 4: **Lieux** où le public peut accéder à des informations environnementales.
  Box 4: Public **locations** for environmental information
  ([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 13740092)

- Les normes sont sévères et certains **lieux** de baignade risquent de fermer, mais comme les normes sont en train d’être trafiquées, elles deviennent inutiles.
  The standards are high and bathing water **locations** facing the prospect of being closed down, but, because standards are being fiddled, they do not need to be.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 671667)

- Facteurs de risque (activités, **lieux** et zones ou superficies)
  Risk factors (activities, **locations** and areas)
  ([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 5247053)

## More sentences

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

- Un couteau ensanglanté a été retrouvé sur les **lieux** du crime.
  A bloodied knife was found at the crime scene.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13002362](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002362) [\#13002380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002380))

- Un couteau ensanglanté a été retrouvé sur les **lieux** du crime.
  A bloody knife was discovered at the crime scene.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13002368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002368) [\#13002380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002380))

- On a retrouvé un couteau ensanglanté sur les **lieux** du crime.
  We found a bloodstained knife at the scene of the crime.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13002374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002374) [\#13002340](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002340))

## 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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