saisie — French to English

How French saisie 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: saisie (41 966), saisies (10 062). By style: everyday 8 · literary 4 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 595 · legal and administrative 2 904 · UN documents 48 508.

seized

Used about 21 396 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 161 · legal and administrative ≈ 514 · UN documents ≈ 20 717). 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

• Un soldat montra au roi une serpe qu'on avait saisie sur le truand.

  A soldier pointed out to the king a billhook which he had seized on the person of the vagabond.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7634

• 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

• Répartition des saisies d ' herbe de cannabis, 2002

  Distribution of cannabis herb seizures, 2002

  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 12282278

before

Used about 17 839 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 31 · legal and administrative ≈ 121 · UN documents ≈ 17 685). 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

• Les générations à venir seront étonnées de sa ruine, Et la génération présente sera saisie d’effroi.

  Those who come after will be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 18:20

• 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 États membres adoptent des mesures pour encourager les prêteurs à faire preuve d’une tolérance raisonnable avant d’engager une procédure de saisie.

  Member States shall adopt measures to encourage creditors to exercise reasonable forbearance before foreclosure proceedings are initiated.

  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 3188132

• 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

More sentences

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

• Je vous ai donné une chance mais vous ne l'avez pas saisie.

  I gave you a chance, but you didn't take it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2329377 #2424500

• Je t'ai donné une chance mais tu ne l'as pas saisie.

  I gave you a chance, but you didn't take it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2329377 #2424501

• J'ai vu une occasion et je l'ai saisie.

  I saw an opportunity and I took it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #3307304 #12964992

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