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# placé — French to English

How French *placé* 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: placé (25 555), placée (12 848), placées (14 968), placés (28 856). By style: everyday 74 · literary 20 · biblical 59 · parliamentary 2 305 · legal and administrative 8 708 · UN documents 71 061.

## placed

Used about 27 245 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 26 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 720 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 538 · UN documents ≈ 22 947).

- Nous savions qu'ils l'ont **placé** ici.
  We knew they **placed** it here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mervert1 and mervert1 · checked, community translation · [\#7633257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7633257) [\#7633665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7633665))

- Deux fauteuils étaient **placés** aux deux coins de la cheminée.
  Two armchairs were **placed** at the two corners of the fireplace.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30842)

- Ne sais-tu pas que, de tout temps, Depuis que l’homme a été **placé** sur la terre,
  Don’t you know this from old time, since man was **placed** on earth,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 20:4)

- Je suis particulièrement bien **placée** pour le savoir.
  I am particularly well-**placed** to know all about that.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 262279)

- Aucun ventilateur n’est **placé** au-dessous du véhicule.
  Fans shall not be **placed** under the vehicle.
  ([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 5499856)

## under

Used about 9 100 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 228 · legal and administrative ≈ 726 · UN documents ≈ 8 142). Meaning: [under in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/under/).

- Les dons d'entreprises aux organisations politiques sont **placés** sous haute surveillance.
  Corporate political donations are coming **under** heavy scrutiny.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and fishda · checked, community translation · [\#20736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20736) [\#579744](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/579744))

- Quand les pavés, destinés à la défense suprême, furent en place, Enjolras fit porter au premier étage les bouteilles qu'il avait **placées** sous la table où était Mabeuf.
  When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras had the bottles which he had set **under** the table where Mabeuf lay, carried to the first floor.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26650)

- Dans les villes sacerdotales, Éden, Minjamin, Josué, Schemaeja, Amaria et Schecania étaient **placés** sous sa direction pour faire fidèlement les distributions à leurs frères, grands et petits, selon leurs divisions:
  **Under** him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, to the great as well as to the small;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 31:15)

- De vastes zones de la mer du Nord ont été **placées** sous protection tandis que la saison du frai commence.
  Vast stretches of the North Sea have been protected whilst the spawning season gets **under** way.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 152475)

- Supports **placés** sous les essieux avant et arrière
  Supports **under** front and rear axles
  ([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 2043698)

## number

Used about 6 775 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 36 · legal and administrative ≈ 816 · UN documents ≈ 5 922). Meaning: [number in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/number/).

- Ozias avait une armée de soldats qui allaient à la guerre par bandes, comptées d’après le dénombrement qu’en firent le secrétaire Jeïel et le commissaire Maaséja, et **placées** sous les ordres de Hanania, l’un des chefs du roi.
  Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men who went out to war by bands, according to the **number** of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 26:11)

- Je comprends maintenant pourquoi il a été **placé** en tête de liste, dans la région du sud-est, pour les réélections de l'année prochaine.
  I can see now why they made him **number** one in the south-east on the list for re-election next year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1910199)

- d'un cercle à l'intérieur duquel est **placée** la lettre E, suivie du numéro distinctif du pays qui a accordé l'homologation \[2\];
  a circle surrounding the letter ‘E’ followed by the distinguishing **number** of the country which has granted approval \[2\];
  ([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 5473204)

- Nombre de décès de personnes **placées** en détention
  **Number** of deaths during the period of remand in custody
  ([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 18774144)

- Autre statistique choquante: le très grand nombre d'enfants, qui se comptent en dizaines de milliers, sans abris ou **placés** en institution.
  Another striking statistic is the very high **number** of children, running into the hundreds of thousands, who are homeless or live in institutions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1094850)

## More sentences

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

- L'homme a été **placé** en garde à vue.
  The man was held in police custody.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#45325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/45325) [\#11231321](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11231321))

- Je ne sais pas ce qu'il s'est passé. Je ne suis pas assez haut **placé**.
  I don't know what happened. It's way above my paygrade.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13574311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13574311) [\#13574317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13574317))

- La police a **placé** la maison du suspect sous surveillance.
  The police staked out the suspect's house.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#10552034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10552034) [\#10552035](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10552035))

## Grammar

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