saisi — French to English

How French saisi 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: saisi (47 110), saisie (41 966), saisies (10 062), saisis (12 352). By style: everyday 76 · literary 19 · biblical 102 · parliamentary 1 654 · legal and administrative 3 688 · UN documents 105 951.

before

Used about 40 633 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 146 · legal and administrative ≈ 192 · UN documents ≈ 40 283). Meaning: before in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Elle fut quelques secondes avant de pouvoir parler, saisie, comme elle le disait elle-même plus tard en racontant son aventure.

  It was several seconds before she could speak; she had a seizure, as she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6592

• Je saisis les deux tables, je les jetai de mes mains, et je les brisai sous vos yeux.

  I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 9:17

• Je suis saisie d'un amendement de compromis.

  A compromise amendment has been put before me.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 41747

• Les transferts de liquidité saisis dans le système avant l'heure limite seront traités.

  Liquidity transfers entered into the system before the cut-off time will be processed.

  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 4576189

• Elle était saisie des documents suivants :

  It had before it the following documents:

  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 1083818

seized

Used about 36 460 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 258 · legal and administrative ≈ 864 · UN documents ≈ 35 317). Forms: seized, seizures.

• Une telle occasion doit être saisie !

  An opportunity like this must be seized!

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #2345949 #2347826

• J'avais saisi Hans par le bras.

  I had seized Hans by the arm.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1861

• Voilà pourquoi les Juifs se sont saisis de moi dans le temple, et ont tâché de me faire périr.

  For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 26:21

• Les saisies d’héroïne ont augmenté depuis 2001.

  Heroin seizures have increased since 2001.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 558775

• dont la juridiction est saisie.

  where the court is seized.

  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 2216052

More sentences

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

• Je n'ai pas saisi son nom.

  I didn't catch his name.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2275825 #11563383

• Il a saisi l'opportunité d'obtenir un emploi.

  He grabbed the chance to get a job.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #299298 #560677

• Je n'ai pas saisi ton nom de famille.

  I didn't catch your last name.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #70513 #1544544

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