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# ouverture — French to English

How French *ouverture* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: ouverture (100 469), ouvertures (3 184). By style: everyday 43 · literary 19 · biblical 16 · parliamentary 6 382 · legal and administrative 23 080 · UN documents 74 113.

## opening

Used about 54 881 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 2 327 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 819 · UN documents ≈ 41 689). Forms: opening, openings. Meaning: [opening in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/opening/).

- Je ne serai pas à la cérémonie d'**ouverture**.
  I won't be at the **opening** ceremony.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3620284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3620284) [\#5489881](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5489881))

- --Les journaux ont pourtant annoncé l'**ouverture** complète du railway!
  “But the papers announced the **opening** of the railway throughout.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 687)

- La source fait-elle jaillir par la même **ouverture** l’eau douce et l’eau amère?
  Does a spring send out from the same **opening** fresh and bitter water?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 3:11)

- **Ouverture** de la séance
  **Opening** of the sitting
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1276355)

- **Ouvertures**: 愦灭※voir schéma
  **Openings**: 愦灭※see drawing
  ([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 5562942)

## More sentences

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

- Dan fut tué deux jours avant l'**ouverture** du procès.
  Dan was killed just two days before the trial began.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#4009314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4009314) [\#4009329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4009329))

- Les deux candidats étaient encore au coude à coude quelques heures avant l'**ouverture** des sondages.
  The two candidates were still neck and neck just hours before the polls opened.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#541759](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/541759) [\#3951787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3951787))

- Quelles sont les heures d'**ouverture** des banques ?
  What are the banking hours?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#18429](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18429) [\#1638635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1638635))

## 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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