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Meaning: [open in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/open/). - Je peux **ouvrir** les yeux ? Can I **open** my eyes? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4570971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4570971) [\#12444105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12444105)) - --Oui ou non, veux-tu **ouvrir**? “Will you **open**, yes or no?” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24196) - Et je pleurai beaucoup de ce que personne ne fut trouvé digne d’**ouvrir** le livre ni de le regarder. Then I wept much, because no one was found worthy to **open** the book or to look in it. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 5:4) - Cela reviendrait à **ouvrir** la boîte de Pandore. That really would **open** a Pandora's box. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1419330) - Il y a lieu d'**ouvrir** ce contingent pour l'année 2005. It is necessary to **open** that quota for 2005. ([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 517153) ## initiate Used about 3 397 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 957 · UN documents ≈ 1 440). Meaning: [initiate in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/initiate/). - La décision d'**ouvrir** la procédure formelle d'examen The decision to **initiate** the formal investigation ([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 4195549) - d) D ' **ouvrir** de toute urgence une enquête sur les massacres de Kasika, ainsi que ceux qui viennent d ' être perpétrés à Makobola. (d) To **initiate**, as a matter of urgency, an inquiry into the Kasika massacres, as well as those just perpetrated at Makobola. ([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 6567477) - DÉCISION D'**OUVRIR** LA PROCÉDURE PRÉVUE À L'ARTICLE 88, PARAGRAPHE 2, DU TRAITÉ CE DECISION TO **INITIATE** PROCEEDINGS UNDER ARTICLE 88(2) OF THE EC TREATY ([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 1974188) - c) Faire **ouvrir** d ' office une enquête chaque fois qu ' il y a des motifs raisonnables de croire qu ' un acte de torture a été commis; (c) **Initiate** investigations ex officio whenever there are reasonable grounds for believing that an act of torture has been committed; ([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 27164215) - De l’avis des deux importateurs, il n’existait pas de motifs suffisants pour **ouvrir** une enquête. In the opinion of the two importers, there were insufficient grounds to **initiate** an investigation. ([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 2900520) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tu viens d'**ouvrir** une boîte de Pandore. You've just opened a can of worms. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#2006520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2006520) [\#3688565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3688565)) - Combien de temps le feu met-il à s'**ouvrir** ? How long do the traffic lights take to change? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12001990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12001990) [\#12002003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12002003)) - J'ai entendu dire qu'une super pâtisserie venait d'**ouvrir** près du métro. I heard a great cakery just opened near the station. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and mactrey · checked, community translation · [\#4635474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4635474) [\#11660021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11660021)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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