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# place — French to English

How French *place* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: place (421 694), places (13 538). By style: everyday 812 · literary 109 · biblical 299 · parliamentary 23 117 · legal and administrative 30 148 · UN documents 380 747.

## place

Used about 165 019 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 152 · literary ≈ 77 · biblical ≈ 185 · parliamentary ≈ 6 983 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 909 · UN documents ≈ 150 712). Forms: place, places. Meaning: [place in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/place/).

- C'est ma **place**.
  This is my **place**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1898102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1898102) [\#9515643](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9515643))

- --Avez-vous une **place**?
  “Have you a **place**?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8391)

- Josaphat, son fils, régna à sa **place**.
  Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his **place**, and strengthened himself against Israel.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 17:1)

- Les frontières fiscales restent en **place**.
  Fiscal frontiers remain in **place**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1743188)

- Nombre de **places**-lits
  Number of bed **places**
  ([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 2409524)

## seats

Used about 52 996 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 211 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 1 926 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 223 · UN documents ≈ 43 627). Forms: seating, seats.

- Il ne reste plus de **places**.
  There are no more **seats** left.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10806614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10806614) [\#10806693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10806693))

- Il adressa ensuite une parabole aux conviés, en voyant qu’ils choisissaient les premières **places**; et il leur dit:
  He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best **seats**, and said to them,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 14:7)

- Veuillez vous installer à vos **places**.
  Please settle down and take your **seats**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 910603)

- Appendice 3: Paramètres de référence des **places** assises
  Appendix 3: Reference data concerning **seating** positions
  ([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 5594533)

- Disposition des **places** pour la soixante-huitième session
  **Seating** protocol for the sixty-eighth session
  ([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 28408219)

## More sentences

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

- S'il ne travaille pas plus assidûment, il y a possibilité qu'il perde sa **place**.
  He is in danger of losing his position unless he works harder.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dominiko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#293134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/293134) [\#131453](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131453))

- Essaie de te mettre à sa **place** et comprends ce qu'il a dû traverser !
  Try to put yourself in his shoes and understand what he's been through.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3442595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3442595) [\#3453408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3453408))

- J'ai acheté un vélo à la **place**.
  I bought a bicycle instead.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4666049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4666049) [\#7771191](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7771191))

## 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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