before — English to French

How English before is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: before in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: before (360 770). By style: everyday 2 385 · literary 240 · biblical 1 481 · parliamentary 28 513 · legal and administrative 46 167 · UN documents 281 984.

avant

Used about 175 655 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 342 · literary ≈ 90 · biblical ≈ 154 · parliamentary ≈ 14 257 · legal and administrative ≈ 42 320 · UN documents ≈ 117 493).

• I have met him before.

  Je l'ai rencontré avant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #256000 #127661

• All the world has seen him before we can show him.

  Avant qu'on le montre, tout le monde l'a vu.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6911

• If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

  Si le monde vous hait, sachez qu’il m’a haï avant vous.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 15:18

• Before the crisis, the Koreans would not accept a reduction in capacity.

  Les Coréens, avant la crise, n'acceptaient pas de réductions de capacité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1827952

• an aircraft produced before 2 March 2027;

  un aéronef produit avant le 2 mars 2027,

  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 4258839

était

Used about 48 558 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 594 · legal and administrative ≈ 962 · UN documents ≈ 46 997).

• Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while before.

  Comme tout à l'heure, quelqu'un en effet était derrière lui.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28220

• The result before us is proof positive of the fact that giving the European Parliament a say was the right move.

  Le résultat qui nous est soumis montre aussi qu'il était indiqué d'impliquer comme il se devait le Parlement européen.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 114475

• It is further recalled that the price fixing period was well before the period considered.

  Il convient également de rappeler que la période de fixation des prix était bien antérieure à la période considérée.

  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 2922025

• 7. In connection with its work, the Working Group had before it:

  Dans le cadre de ses travaux, le Groupe de travail était saisi des documents suivants :

  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 11614168

• 3. For its consideration of the item, the Committee had before it the following documents:

  Pour l ' examen de la question, la Commission était saisie des documents suivants :

  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 25304457

devant

Used about 32 155 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 50 · literary ≈ 55 · biblical ≈ 895 · parliamentary ≈ 1 782 · UN documents ≈ 29 373).

• There will always be things I will never learn, I don't have eternity before me!

  Il y aura toujours des choses que je n'apprendrai jamais, je n'ai pas l'éternité devant moi !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bmorsello and sysko · checked, community translation · #1500 #3315

• He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc.

  Il posa la feuille de papier devant M. Leblanc.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17567

• Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.

  Devant lui marche la peste, Et la peste est sur ses traces.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HAB 3:5

• Will it initiate proceedings against Greece before the Court of Justice?

  Engagera-t-elle des poursuites contra la Grèce devant la Cour de justice?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 957821

• It is a great honour for me to be invited to speak before this historical forum.

  C ' est pour moi un grand honneur que d ' être invité à prendre la parole devant cette instance historique.

  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 13410018

More sentences

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

• Tom had never kissed anyone before.

  Tom n'avait jamais embrassé quelqu'un auparavant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #7000263 #7001314

• I'd never seen you like that before.

  Je ne vous avais jamais vues ainsi auparavant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4914186 #8362107

• Haven't we met somewhere before?

  On ne s'est pas déjà rencontrés quelque part ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #4017014 #13378325

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