held — English to French

How English held is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: held (416 822). By style: everyday 226 · literary 71 · biblical 56 · parliamentary 8 441 · legal and administrative 14 844 · UN documents 393 184.

lieu

Used about 43 449 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 231 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 237 · UN documents ≈ 40 957).

• Rio's carnival is held in February.

  Le carnaval de Rio a lieu en février.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by fcbond and Rovo · checked, community translation · #328890 #1455882

• When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.

  Dès que le jour parut, il sortit et alla dans un lieu désert. Une foule de gens se mirent à sa recherche, et arrivèrent jusqu’à lui; ils voulaient le retenir, afin qu’il ne les quittât point.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 4:42

• The referendum should have been held in 1992.

  Le référendum aurait dû avoir lieu en 1992.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2048230

• Meetings shall be held in private unless the Standing Committee decides otherwise.

  Les réunions ont lieu à huis clos, à moins que la Commission permanente n'en décide autrement.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 4172058

• The oral proceedings were held on 11 September 2001.

  La procédure orale a eu lieu le 11 septembre 2001.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9656171

More sentences

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

• I held my breath.

  J'ai retenu mon souffle.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #5786675 #12016815

• Tom held a seat for me.

  Tom a gardé une place pour moi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · #37112 #1692832

• The Iowa caucuses will be held soon.

  Les comités électoraux de l'Iowa se tiendront bientôt.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and smonff · checked, community translation · #872145 #4698287

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