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# sièges — French to English

How French *sièges* 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: sièges (28 736). By style: everyday 20 · literary 2 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 672 · legal and administrative 4 119 · UN documents 23 913.

## seats

Used about 15 277 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 518 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 776 · UN documents ≈ 10 960). Forms: seat, seats.

- Deux **sièges** étaient libres.
  Two **seats** were vacant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bourdu and CK · checked, community translation · [\#28187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28187) [\#354360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/354360))

- 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)

- Au paragraphe 8, l'Allemagne se lamente sur ses **sièges** perdus.
  In paragraph 8, we witness a lamentation that Germany will lose **seats**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 973636)

- Description des **sièges** 愦灭※
  Description of **seats** 愦灭※
  ([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 5473432)

- a) Huit **sièges** pour les Etats d &apos; Afrique;
  (a) Eight **seats** for African States;
  ([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 1084075)

## vacancies

Used about 6 975 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 6 975).

- Élections aux **sièges** devenus vacants
  Elections to fill **vacancies** in subsidiary organs and
  ([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 21576317)

- Élections aux **sièges** devenus vacants
  Elections to fill **vacancies** in subsidiary organs and other
  ([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 14526397)

- Nominations aux **sièges** devenus vacants
  Appointments to fill **vacancies** in subsidiary organs and other
  ([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 8834099)

- Élections aux **sièges** devenus vacants dans les organes
  Elections to fill **vacancies** in subsidiary organs and
  ([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 28860883)

- 103. Élections aux **sièges** devenus vacants dans les organes principaux :
  103. Elections to fill **vacancies** in principal organs:
  ([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 18059883)

## More sentences

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

- **Sièges**-tu au comité ?
  Are you on the committee?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#16808](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16808) [\#474869](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/474869))

- Ôtez ces **sièges**, s'il vous plaît.
  Please put those chairs away.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fs and CK · checked, community translation · [\#42011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42011) [\#697247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/697247))

- Il nous faut deux **sièges** de plus.
  We need two more chairs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12247119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12247119) [\#12246912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12246912))

## Grammar

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