begun — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: begun (20 347). By style: everyday 73 · literary 26 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 1 452 · legal and administrative 285 · UN documents 18 501.

commencé

Used about 6 936 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 61 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 545 · legal and administrative ≈ 148 · UN documents ≈ 6 167).

• It's just begun.

  Il a à peine commencé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jaxhere and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #5228954 #7157675

• The investigation had begun.

  L'information avait commencé.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18862

• The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,

  Les Juifs s’engagèrent à faire ce qu’ils avaient déjà commencé et ce que Mardochée leur écrivit.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EST 9:23

• Practical project activities have now begun.

  Depuis, les travaux concrets ont commencé.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1904172

• Country in which the journey was begun

  Pays dans lequel le voyage a commencé

  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 3250704

More sentences

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

• I've only just begun.

  Je viens tout juste de commencer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and thowas · checked, community translation · #2360184 #4655703

• I have only just begun.

  Je viens juste de commencer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #241921 #3866502

• My memory of her has begun to recede.

  Les souvenirs que j'ai d'elle commencent à s'estomper.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MostAssertive and Aiji · checked, community translation · #314307 #134380

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