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# siège — French to English

How French *siège* 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: siège (151 932), sièges (28 736). By style: everyday 129 · literary 7 · biblical 38 · parliamentary 2 457 · legal and administrative 13 483 · UN documents 164 554.

## headquarters

Used about 64 360 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 230 · legal and administrative ≈ 702 · UN documents ≈ 63 422). Meaning: [headquarters in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/headquarters/).

- Notre nouveau **siège** social est à Tokyo.
  Our new **headquarters** are in Tokyo.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jio15 and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4487328](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4487328) [\#2532213](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2532213))

- Une de ces décisions concerne bien sûr le **siège** du bureau administratif.
  One decision, of course, relates to the **headquarters** of the administrative office.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1044541)

- Autres dépenses de gestion — **Siège**
  Other management expenditure — **Headquarters**
  ([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 3779111)

- Aperçu des séances tenues hors **Siège**
  Summary of meetings held away from **Headquarters**
  ([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 12462221)

- Les protestataires faisaient le piquet à l'extérieur du **siège** de la société.
  Protesters were picketing outside the company's **headquarters**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#733818](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/733818) [\#800517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/800517))

## seat

Used about 53 399 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 108 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 1 459 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 674 · UN documents ≈ 41 139). Forms: seat, seats. Meaning: [seat in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/seat/).

- Où est mon **siège** ?
  Where is my **seat**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by RaspaKrusto and CK · checked, community translation · [\#251304](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251304) [\#797763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/797763))

- Il y en a sur le **siège**, sur le strapontin, sur les joues des capotes, sur le timon.
  They cling to the **seats**, to the rumble, on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29573)

- ils aiment la première place dans les festins, et les premiers **sièges** dans les synagogues;
  and love the place of honor at feasts, the best **seats** in the synagogues,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 23:6)

- Trouvez-moi un autre **siège**!".
  Find me another **seat**!'
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1305243)

- Description de l'ancrage du **siège**
  Description of **seat** anchorage
  ([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 5416788)

## parliament

Used about 3 582 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 154 · UN documents ≈ 3 428). Meaning: [parliament in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/parliament/).

- Non, le Parlement européen ne peut décider du lieu d’établissement de son **siège**.
  No, the European **Parliament** cannot decide on the location in which it will be based.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 809218)

- Par exemple, 30 % des **sièges** au Soviet suprême (Parlement) leur étaient réservés.
  In the Supreme Soviet (**Parliament**), the proportion of women was 30 per cent.
  ([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 4863198)

- Le Parlement doit avoir un seul **siège**, à Bruxelles, et l’idée d’IET doit être approfondie.
  The **Parliament** should have one site, in Brussels, and the EIT idea should progress further.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 853798)

- 15. Les femmes n &apos; occupent que 14 % des **sièges** au Parlement et 10,3 % des postes de décision des services de l &apos; État.
  15. Women constitute only 14 per cent of **Parliament** and only 10.3 per cent of the total number of Government officials in decision-making positions.
  ([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 22096313)

- Je crois que c'est l'accord le plus historique que nous ayons conclu depuis que je **siège** dans cette Assemblée.
  I believe this is the most historic agreement that we have concluded since I have been in **Parliament**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1475361)

## More sentences

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

- Le **siège** de la forteresse dura longtemps.
  The siege of the fortress lasted a long time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6736128](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6736128) [\#1815393](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1815393))

- Merci de rester assis dans votre **siège** jusqu'à notre arrivée au terminus.
  Please stay seated until we reach the terminal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Erwan29200 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#41244](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/41244) [\#750194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/750194))

- Le croissant n'est pas français mais autrichien. Il a été créé par un pâtissier viennois pour célébrer la levée du **siège** de Vienne par les Ottomans.
  The croissant is not French but Austrian. It was created by a Viennese pastry cook to celebrate the lifting of the siege of Vienna by the Ottomans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8969161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8969161) [\#2329867](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2329867))

## 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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