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# occuper — French to English

How French *occuper* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: occupaient (2 783), occupait (2 289), occupe (19 001), occupent (25 193), occuper (24 588), occupes (146), occupez (99), occupons (296), occupé (34 370), occupée (8 507), occupées (5 207), occupés (29 593). By style: everyday 1 652 · literary 38 · biblical 43 · parliamentary 6 837 · legal and administrative 3 578 · UN documents 139 924.

## occupied

Used about 52 280 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 1 273 · legal and administrative ≈ 614 · UN documents ≈ 50 324). Meaning: [occupied in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/occupied/).

- Toutes les chambres sont **occupées**.
  The rooms are all **occupied**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2544029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2544029) [\#3586715](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3586715))

- La maison en effet était **occupée**.
  The house was **occupied**, in fact.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19144)

- Mon pays n'a jamais été **occupé**.
  My country has never been **occupied**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1845538)

- À indiquer en nombre de ruches **occupées**.
  To be indicated in number of **occupied** hives.
  ([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 3082821)

- Nombre de maisons **occupées**
  No. of **occupied** houses
  ([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 3886227)

## care

Used about 4 282 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 274 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 176 · legal and administrative ≈ 149 · UN documents ≈ 3 682). Meaning: [care in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/care/).

- Nous nous en **occupons**.
  We're taking **care** of it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3311078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3311078) [\#1847543](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1847543))

- Marthe, **occupée** à divers soins domestiques, survint et dit: Seigneur, cela ne te fait-il rien que ma sœur me laisse seule pour servir? Dis-lui donc de m’aider.
  But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you **care** that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 10:40)

- Au début, le père s'**occupait** également du petit.
  At the beginning the father also took **care** of that young boy or girl.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1175416)

- N'a jamais dû s'**occuper** de proches en état d'incapacité
  Never had to **care** for incapacitated relatives
  ([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 4111087)

- En 1994, l &apos; Unité d &apos; accueil de jour s &apos; est **occupée** de 15 enfants.
  During 1994, the Day **Care** Unit had 15 children.
  ([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 3790992)

## employed

Used about 4 124 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 108 · legal and administrative ≈ 579 · UN documents ≈ 3 437). Meaning: [employed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/employed/).

- Ces écoles de danse **occupaient** 109 personnes et généraient un surplus financier de près de 400 000 euros.
  These dance schools **employed** 109 persons and generated a financial surplus of nearly 400 000 Euro.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1057570)

- Nombre de personnes **occupées**
  Number of persons **employed**
  ([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 1806889)

- Degré d &apos; instruction des personnes **occupées**
  Education standards of the **employed** population
  ([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 3732250)

- Force est de constater qu'en 2007, 31 % des femmes **occupaient** des emplois à temps partiel, soit quatre fois plus que les hommes.
  We must recognise that, in 2007, 31% of women were **employed** in part-time jobs, which is four times as many as men.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1334270)

- 250 personnes **occupées** ou plus
  250 or more persons **employed**
  ([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 1602288)

## territories

Used about 2 468 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 14 · UN documents ≈ 2 455).

- Israël ne procède pas au retrait des territoires, continue à **occuper** des territoires et garde des milliers de Palestiniens dans ses prisons.
  Israel is not withdrawing from the **territories**, but is continuing to occupy them and keep thousands of Palestinians in prison.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1858341)

- ARABES **OCCUPES**, Y COMPRIS LA PALESTINE
  ARAB **TERRITORIES**, INCLUDING PALESTINE
  ([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 2948453)

- TERRITOIRES ARABES **OCCUPES**, Y COMPRIS LA PALESTINE
  ARAB **TERRITORIES**, INCLUDING PALESTINE
  ([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 1159078)

- LES TERRITOIRES ARABES **OCCUPES**, Y COMPRIS LA PALESTINE
  ARAB **TERRITORIES**, INCLUDING PALESTINE
  ([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 3986338)

- DANS LES TERRITOIRES ARABES **OCCUPES**, Y COMPRIS LA PALESTINE
  ARAB **TERRITORIES**, INCLUDING PALESTINE
  ([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 5146807)

## More sentences

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

- C'est mon problème et je vais m'en **occuper**.
  This is my problem and I'll deal with it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2662921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2662921) [\#13118181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13118181))

- Elle passe plus du tiers de son temps à s'**occuper** de papiers.
  She spends over a third of her time doing paperwork.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#909561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/909561) [\#1393094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1393094))

- Pourriez-vous vous **occuper** de mes enfants quand je serai parti en vacances ?
  Would you look after my children while I am away on vacation?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bourdu and CK · checked, community translation · [\#19817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19817) [\#354374](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/354374))

## 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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