hold — English to French

How English hold is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: hold in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: hold (71 498), holds (12 563). By style: everyday 456 · literary 57 · biblical 137 · parliamentary 5 677 · legal and administrative 6 276 · UN documents 71 458.

tient

Used about 5 504 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 38 · literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 177 · legal and administrative ≈ 65 · UN documents ≈ 5 210).

• His alibi doesn't hold up.

  Son alibi ne tient pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by doemaar14 and lbdx · checked, community translation · #11188601 #11968196

• “Throw down the stone,” said Tristan; “it no longer holds.”

  --Mettez bas la pierre, dit Tristan, elle ne tient plus.»

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8777

• “To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:

  Écris à l’ange de l’Église d’Éphèse: Voici ce que dit celui qui tient les sept étoiles dans sa main droite, celui qui marche au milieu des sept chandeliers d’or:

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 2:1

• We are appalled by the contempt in which the Commission holds Parliament.

  Nous sommes révoltés devant le mépris dans lequel la Commission tient le Parlement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1925594

• The MIB shall generally hold its meetings at the ECB's premises.

  Le MIB tient généralement ses réunions dans les locaux de la BCE.

  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 4782452

détient

Used about 2 958 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 414 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 046 · UN documents ≈ 1 489).

• Though he is no longer president, he still holds considerable sway among the political elite.

  Bien qu'il ne soit plus président, il détient encore une influence considérable au sein de l'élite politique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #587885 #589695

• First of all, China, which holds the very dubious world record for the number of executions carried out there.

  Tout d'abord, la Chine, qui détient le triste record mondial du nombre d'exécutions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 289603

• ‘account holder’ means a person who holds an account in the registries system;

  «titulaire de compte», une personne qui détient un compte dans le système de registres;

  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 2180454

• He also holds the post of Minister of Tourism.

  Il détient également le portefeuille de Ministre du tourisme.

  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 1694799

• The Assembly of Tibetan People's Deputies, established in 1960, is the legislature that holds the highest jurisdiction in the society of exiled Tibetans.

  L'Assemblée des Représentants du Peuple Tibétain, établie en dix-neuf-cent-soixante, est l'organe législatif qui détient la plus haute juridiction dans la société des Tibétains en exil.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #540378 #1738114

More sentences

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

• He couldn't hold his temper any longer.

  Il ne pouvait conserver son sang-froid plus longtemps.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kebukebu and Aiji · checked, community translation · #614436 #131132

• They hold me responsible for it.

  Ils m'ont tenu pour responsable.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and TRANG · checked, community translation · #45880 #339511

• Could you hold on a second?

  Peux-tu attendre un peu ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4013367 #1182872

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