began — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: began (33 866). By style: everyday 441 · literary 158 · biblical 172 · parliamentary 1 584 · legal and administrative 524 · UN documents 30 987.

commencé

Used about 13 251 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 129 · parliamentary ≈ 693 · legal and administrative ≈ 164 · UN documents ≈ 12 266).

• I began to speak.

  J'ai commencé à parler.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by cc_neko and martin9 · checked, community translation · #1567177 #1432490

• Mrs de Brún began by speaking Irish.

  Mme de Brún a commencé en s’exprimant en irlandais.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 834653

• Germany and the bank began by summarising the underlying situation.

  L'Allemagne et la banque ont commencé par résumer la situation.

  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 551901

• UNFPA assistance to Brazil began in 1973.

  L ' assistance du FNUAP au Brésil a commencé en 1973.

  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 24401208

• It began to drizzle.

  Il a commencé à bruiner.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · #8315296 #8872515

More sentences

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

• She lost her way and on top of that it began to rain.

  Elle perdit son chemin, et pour comble de malchance, il se mit à pleuvoir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and rene1596 · checked, community translation · #316019 #1183950

• When the long, hearty dinner was over, the guests began dancing and singing.

  Lorsque le long et consistant souper fut terminé, les invités se mirent à danser et à chanter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3759414 #3762210

• Left alone, the little girl began to cry.

  Laissée seule, la petite fille se mit à pleurer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and NomadSoul · checked, community translation · #27613 #970670

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