beginning — English to French

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

What it means: beginning in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: beginning (63 529), beginnings (618). By style: everyday 280 · literary 50 · biblical 100 · parliamentary 6 099 · legal and administrative 4 943 · UN documents 52 675.

début

Used about 31 475 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 113 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 732 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 387 · UN documents ≈ 25 240). Forms: début, débuts.

• That was only the beginning.

  Ce n'était que le début.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3419913 #6380814

• And after all it is only to make a beginning, a way of saving a few thousand francs to start fair with afterward.”

  D'ailleurs, ce n'est qu'un début, un moyen d'amasser quelques milliers de francs pour m'établir ensuite.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2141

• We have made interesting beginnings.

  Nous avons eu des débuts intéressants.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1306050

• General training courses carried out at the beginning of

  Formations générales données au début

  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 5036038

• AfriKids New Beginnings Programme

  Programme AfriKids pour de nouveaux débuts

  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 23543023

depuis

Used about 1 844 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 191 · UN documents ≈ 1 646).

• He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the question.

  Il ne songeait pas à autre chose depuis le commencement de la conversation, mais il ne savait pourquoi il n'avait pas osé faire cette question.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4924

• But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

  Mais ils insistèrent, et dirent: Il soulève le peuple, en enseignant par toute la Judée, depuis la Galilée, où il a commencé, jusqu’ici.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 23:5

• I would add that Europe has got its public finances into better shape in the years after 1993, and it is beginning to reap the real rewards of that effort.

  J'ajoute que l'Europe a assaini ses finances publiques depuis 1993 et qu'elle commence à en recueillir les fruits.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1797555

• The Committee takes note with interest of the introduction of instruction in the Amazigh (Berber) language since the beginning of the 1995-1996 school year.

  Le Comité note avec intérêt l ' introduction, depuis la rentrée scolaire 1995-1996, de l ' enseignement de la langue amazighe (berbère).

  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 2863852

• Captain Phœbus de Châteaupers (for it is he whom the reader has had before his eyes since the beginning of this chapter) slowly approached the balcony.

  Le capitaine Phoebus de Châteaupers (car c'est lui que le lecteur a sous les yeux depuis le commencement de ce chapitre) s'approcha à pas lents du balcon.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3668

dès

Used about 1 398 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 191 · legal and administrative ≈ 92 · UN documents ≈ 1 097).

• Beginning with 1818, doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade.

  Dès 1818, quelques doctrinaires commencèrent à y poindre, nuance inquiétante.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13368

• You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

  et vous aussi, vous rendrez témoignage, parce que vous êtes avec moi dès le commencement.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 15:27

• The promising attempt at a solution in the form of co-financing was allowed to slip out of sight at the very beginning, which was an amateurish way to proceed.

  On a abandonné dès l'abord, avec dilettantisme, l'idée prometteuse du cofinancement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2001401

• Germany welcomed the many comments expressing the view that universities relied, from the beginnings, on cost-effective solutions that HIS provided.

  Le gouvernement fédéral s’est félicité des nombreuses observations formulées, selon lesquelles les établissements d’enseignement supérieur se sont, dès le départ, appuyés sur les solutions rentables proposées par HIS GmbH.

  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 5070471

• Therefore this was one of the areas of key importance from the beginning.

  Ce fut donc l ' un des points essentiels dès le départ.

  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 26271435

More sentences

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

• At the beginning, I knew no word in German.

  Au départ, je ne connaissais aucun mot en allemand.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #14094989 #14094990

• Let's start from the beginning.

  Commençons par le commencement.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2007352 #14254

• Death is both the end and the beginning.

  La mort est à la fois la fin et le commencement.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Mar1L and lbdx · checked, community translation · #5618367 #7705277

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