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# privé — French to English

How French *privé* 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: privé (131 765), privée (78 942), privées (59 741), privés (51 932). By style: everyday 219 · literary 2 · biblical 22 · parliamentary 9 354 · legal and administrative 20 374 · UN documents 292 409.

## private

Used about 171 764 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 179 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 7 551 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 827 · UN documents ≈ 146 205). Forms: privacy, private. Meaning: [private in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/private/).

- Je tiens à ma vie **privée**.
  I value my **privacy**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3830668](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3830668) [\#13388618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13388618))

- Tel peloton de gardes nationaux se constituait de son autorité **privée** conseil de guerre, et jugeait et exécutait en cinq minutes un insurgé prisonnier.
  A platoon of the National Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a **private** council of war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26214)

- Il s'agit d'un magazine **privé**.
  It is a **private** magazine.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1853842)

- Taille du ménage **privé**
  size of **private** household
  ([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 1578918)

- Donateurs **privés** en Argentine
  **Private** donors in Argentina
  ([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 14744895)

## closed

Used about 91 378 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 91 378).

- 10 heures Séance **privée** Salle de conférence 4
  10 a.m. **Closed** meeting Conference Room 4
  ([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 17649164)

- 10 à 13 heures Réunion **privée** À annoncer
  10 a.m. - 1 p.m. **Closed** meeting To be announced
  ([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 10938630)

- Communiqués concernant les séances **privées**
  Issue of communiqués concerning **closed** meetings
  ([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 10851177)

- 15 à 18 heures Séance **privée** Salle de conférence 2
  3 - 6 p.m. **Closed** meeting Conference Room 2
  ([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 12396620)

- 15 à 18 heures Réunion **privée** Salle de conférence D
  3 - 6 p.m. **Closed** meeting Conference Room D
  ([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 19407261)

## sector

Used about 3 201 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 49 · legal and administrative ≈ 106 · UN documents ≈ 3 046). Meaning: [sector in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/sector/).

- Je me félicite en particulier des mesures concrètes proposées afin de réduire la charge administrative qui perturbe inutilement les activités du secteur **privé** européen.
  I particularly welcome the concrete measures proposed for reducing the administrative burden which needlessly disrupts the economic activities going on in the European business **sector**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1250819)

- pour les créances **privées**, conformément à l'article 95, une société non financière, une entité du secteur public, une banque multilatérale de développement ou une organisation internationale.
  for credit claims in accordance with Article 95: a non-financial corporation, a public **sector** entity, a multilateral development bank or an international organisation.
  ([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 3233894)

- La Chambre de commerce internationale a contribué à inciter le secteur **privé** à financer le processus de développement.
  The organization took part in engaging the business **sector** in the financing for development process.
  ([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 22690547)

- Troisièmement, la privatisation massive du secteur des transports a provoqué l &apos; apparition d &apos; une myriade de transporteurs **privés** qui opèrent sur un marché encore imparfaitement réglementé.
  Third, mass privatization in the transport **sector** has led to the emergence of myriad non-State carriers operating under an incomplete system of governmental controls on the transport market.
  ([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 1936299)

## More sentences

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

- J'aimerais parler avec Tom en **privé**.
  I'd like to speak with Tom alone.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pititnatole and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1936356](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1936356) [\#5371805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5371805))

- Est-ce que je peux te parler en **privé** ?
  Can I have a word with you alone?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lulantis and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3466166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3466166) [\#3466755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3466755))

- « Dites-moi pourquoi vous êtes si triste. » « C'est **privé**. »
  "Tell me why you are so sad." "It's personal."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1126072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1126072) [\#11290312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11290312))

## 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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