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Forms: seized, seizures. - Une telle occasion doit être **saisie** ! An opportunity like this must be **seized**! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2345949](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2345949) [\#2347826](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2347826)) - Un soldat montra au roi une serpe qu'on avait **saisie** sur le truand. A soldier pointed out to the king a billhook which he had **seized** on the person of the vagabond. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7634) - Les **saisies** d’héroïne ont augmenté depuis 2001. Heroin **seizures** have increased since 2001. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 558775) - dont la juridiction est **saisie**. where the court is **seized**. ([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 2216052) - Répartition des **saisies** d ' herbe de cannabis, 2002 Distribution of cannabis herb **seizures**, 2002 ([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 12282278) ## before Used about 17 839 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 31 · legal and administrative ≈ 121 · UN documents ≈ 17 685). Meaning: [before in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/before/). - Elle fut quelques secondes avant de pouvoir parler, **saisie**, comme elle le disait elle-même plus tard en racontant son aventure. It was several seconds **before** she could speak; she had a seizure, as she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6592) - Les générations à venir seront étonnées de sa ruine, Et la génération présente sera **saisie** d’effroi. Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went **before** were frightened. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 18:20) - Je suis **saisie** d'un amendement de compromis. A compromise amendment has been put **before** me. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 41747) - Les États membres adoptent des mesures pour encourager les prêteurs à faire preuve d’une tolérance raisonnable avant d’engager une procédure de **saisie**. Member States shall adopt measures to encourage creditors to exercise reasonable forbearance **before** foreclosure proceedings are initiated. ([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 3188132) - Elle était **saisie** des documents suivants : It had **before** it the following documents: ([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 1083818) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Je vous ai donné une chance mais vous ne l'avez pas **saisie**. I gave you a chance, but you didn't take it. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2329377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2329377) [\#2424500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2424500)) - Je t'ai donné une chance mais tu ne l'as pas **saisie**. I gave you a chance, but you didn't take it. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2329377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2329377) [\#2424501](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2424501)) - J'ai vu une occasion et je l'ai **saisie**. I saw an opportunity and I took it. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3307304](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3307304) [\#12964992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12964992)) ## 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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