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# séances — French to English

How French *séances* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: séances (93 454). By style: everyday 1 · literary 1 · parliamentary 677 · legal and administrative 413 · UN documents 92 362.

## meetings

Used about 67 493 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 42 · legal and administrative ≈ 103 · UN documents ≈ 67 347).

- Je sais qu'en règle générale, vous désirez toujours informer le Parlement et que vous le faites et êtes présent aux **séances**.
  I know that you are always keen to inform Parliament and that you do that and come to our **meetings**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1975458)

- Article 20 Présidence des **séances**
  Article 20 Chairing of **meetings**
  ([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 2065444)

- Aperçu des **séances** officielles
  Summary of official **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 26608160)

- Ce n'est pas non plus en nommant des commissions, en accroissant la bureaucratie ou en multipliant les réunions et autres **séances** qu'on leur donnera de quoi manger.
  Appointing committees, increasing bureaucracy, **meetings** and sittings will, likewise, not give them any food.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1094895)

- Article 16 Calendrier des **séances**
  Article 16 Scheduling of **meetings**
  ([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 623030)

## sessions

Used about 9 755 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 56 · legal and administrative ≈ 77 · UN documents ≈ 9 621).

- Je crois qu'il est inutile d'organiser deux **séances** plénières séparées en octobre.
  in writing. - I believe that holding two separate plenary **sessions** in October is unnecessary.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1515522)

- Législatures, sessions, périodes de session, **séances**
  Parliamentary term, **sessions**, part-sessions, sittings
  ([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 4879730)

- c) Bibliothèques avec des **séances** d &apos; animation (montées sur les sites balnéaires, chaque année, lors de la période estivale).
  (c) Libraries offering activity **sessions** at seaside resorts every summer.
  ([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 7964463)

- C' est donc après quelques hésitations que j' ai décidé de voter en faveur de la suppression des **séances** du vendredi à Strasbourg.
  It is therefore with some hesitation that I voted for the deletion of Fridays from the Strasbourg **sessions**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 62227)

- Au cours de deux **séances** de négociation, il a été indiqué clairement qu’aucun changement de fond ne serait accepté.
  In two negotiating **sessions**, it had been made clear that no substantive changes to the text would be accepted.
  ([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 5183721)

## plenary

Used about 5 813 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 14 · legal and administrative ≈ 26 · UN documents ≈ 5 773).

- J'ai soulevé la question lors de **séances** plénières ainsi qu'au sein de la commission de l'agriculture et du développement rural.
  I raised the matter during **plenary** sittings, and also at the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 886546)

- des procédures à suivre lors des **séances** plénières à haut niveau et au sein des groupes de travail;
  the procedures for **plenary** meetings at high level and working groups;
  ([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 2836361)

- Un projet de programme de travail des **séances** plénières paraîtra en juillet.
  A draft programme of work of the **plenary** will be issued in July.
  ([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 26607511)

- les dépenses relatives à la transmission en direct, sur l'internet, des **séances** plénières et des réunions des commissions parlementaires,
  expenditure on live internet broadcasting of **plenary** sittings and parliamentary committee meetings,
  ([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 4123821)

- Le projet de programme de travail des **séances** plénières de l &apos; Assemblée générale à sa soixante-huitième session figure au chapitre II du document A/67/922.
  The draft programme of the work of the **plenary** for the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly is contained in document A/67/922, Section II.
  ([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 28392327)

## programme

Used about 5 773 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 5 773). Meaning: [programme in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/programme/).

- PROGRAMME ET ORDRE DU JOUR DES **SÉANCES** ET DES RÉUNIONS
  **PROGRAMME** ET ORDRE DU JOUR DES SÉANCES ET DES RÉUNIONS
  ([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 8288481)

## forthcoming

Used about 141 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 141). Meaning: [forthcoming in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/forthcoming/).

- Calendrier des prochaines **séances**: voir procès-verbal
  Dates of **forthcoming** sittings: see Minutes
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1406357)

- Calendrier des prochaines **séances** : voir procès-verbal
  Dates of **forthcoming** sittings: see Minutes
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1589215)

- Calendrier des prochaines **séances** : voir procès-verbal
  Dates of **forthcoming** sittings : see Minutes
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1590078)

## held

Used about 9 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 9).

- Les **séances** plénières du Parlement qui se tiennent le même jour sont considérées comme une seule séance.
  Sittings of Parliament **held** on the same day shall be deemed to be a single sitting.
  ([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 624551)

## More sentences

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

- Ils font régulièrement des **séances** de brainstorming.
  They brainstorm regularly.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12775215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12775215) [\#13365249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13365249))

- Ordinairement les **séances** finissent à six heures.
  The sittings generally close at six o’clock.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5782)

- Calendrier des prochaines **séances**: cf. procès-verbal
  Dates for next sittings: see Minutes
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 864699)

## 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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