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# tenues — French to English

How French *tenues* 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: tenues (45 031). By style: everyday 16 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 631 · legal and administrative 2 140 · UN documents 42 243.

## meetings

Used about 19 643 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 13 · legal and administrative ≈ 268 · UN documents ≈ 19 361).

- Toutes les futures réunions seront **tenues** dans cette pièce.
  All future **meetings** will be held in this room.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#2163121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2163121) [\#2164022](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2164022))

- Ces thèmes ont fait l’objet d’approfondissements durant les sessions de la CIG qui se sont **tenues** dans la première moitié du mois d’octobre.
  These issues were examined at the IGC **meetings** which took place in the first half of October.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 516614)

- Des réunions avec les Pays-Bas se sont **tenues** les 9 juillet 2013, 25 février 2015 et 13 octobre 2015.
  **Meetings** with the Netherlands took place on 9 July 2013, 25 February 2015 and 13 October 2015.
  ([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 3864686)

- Réunions à venir **tenues** hors Siège
  Forthcoming **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 17618186)

- Par ailleurs, plusieurs conférences téléphoniques et réunions se sont **tenues** entre la Commission et les autorités françaises.
  In addition, several conference calls and **meetings** took place between the Commission and the French authorities.
  ([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 3809407)

## held

Used about 10 827 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 131 · legal and administrative ≈ 134 · UN documents ≈ 10 561).

- De nombreuses conférences internationales se sont **tenues** à Genève.
  Many international conferences have been **held** in Geneva.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#274841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/274841) [\#956285](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/956285))

- Jusqu'à présent, deux réunions se sont déjà **tenues**, l'une à Athènes en 2006 et l'autre à Rio en 2007.
  Two meetings have been **held** so far: in 2006 in Athens and 2007 in Rio.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1024552)

- Machines à moteur non **tenues** à la main
  Non-hand-**held** engines
  ([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 4201330)

- Le texte a continué d &apos; évoluer à la faveur des consultations qui se sont **tenues** le 20 mai.
  The text continued to evolve as further consultations were **held** on 20 May.
  ([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 11040328)

- Monsieur le Président, dimanche dernier se sont **tenues** en Finlande les élections au Parlement européen.
  Mr President, elections to the European Parliament were **held** in Finland on Sunday.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1643157)

## elections

Used about 946 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 66 · UN documents ≈ 880).

- Des élections **tenues** en bonne et due forme sont indispensables à la stabilité et au développement en Géorgie.
  Properly conducted **elections** are a prerequisite for stability and development in Georgia.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 541856)

- Le Conseil se félicite également de la réussite des élections présidentielle et législatives **tenues** en 2012, qui ont concouru à la consolidation des institutions démocratiques du TimorLeste.
  The Council also welcomes the successful presidential and parliamentary **elections** conducted in 2012, which have helped to consolidate TimorLeste &apos; s democratic institutions.
  ([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 30234914)

- Les élections politiques auront lieu en Iran le 14 mars, où les promesses qu'il n'a pas **tenues** compteront plus que celles qu'il a faites.
  Political **elections** will take place in Iran on 14 March, in which the promises he has failed to keep will count more than those he has made.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1026589)

- Lors des dernières élections **tenues** en 1998, il n' a pas craint une seconde de faire arrêter le comptage des voix et de s' autoproclamer nouveau président.
  At the last **elections** in 1998 he did not hesitate to have the counting of votes stopped and himself again proclaimed president.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 230147)

- Nous avions alors précisé que le Conseil serait très attentif au déroulement des élections législatives en Biélorussie, qui se sont **tenues** le 28 septembre dernier.
  We explained then that the Council would be closely monitoring the legislative **elections** in Belarus, which took place on 28 September.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1142573)

## More sentences

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

- Je suis allé à toutes les expositions d'art moderne qui se sont **tenues** à Tokyo l'année dernière.
  I went to every modern art show that took place in Tokyo last year.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#252255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/252255) [\#688496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/688496))

- Tom et Mary portaient des **tenues** assorties.
  Tom and Mary wore matching outfits.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5288119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5288119) [\#5288988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5288988))

- L'entreprise fournit des **tenues** de travail aux employés mais on attend d'eux qu'ils les lavent régulièrement.
  The company provides workers uniforms, but it's expected they will wash them regularly.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and halfb1t · checked, community translation · [\#2047853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2047853) [\#2048365](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2048365))

## Grammar

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