behind — English to French

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

What it means: behind in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: behind (27 373), behinds (2). By style: everyday 636 · literary 125 · biblical 75 · parliamentary 6 755 · legal and administrative 1 051 · UN documents 18 733.

derrière

Used about 5 341 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 451 · literary ≈ 91 · biblical ≈ 50 · parliamentary ≈ 1 930 · legal and administrative ≈ 525 · UN documents ≈ 2 294).

• I was left behind.

  On m'a laissé derrière.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1682630 #2009551

• The rout behind the Guard was melancholy.

  La déroute derrière la garde fut lugubre.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7329

• since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

  Toi qui hais les avis, Et qui jettes mes paroles derrière toi!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 50:17

• Who is behind them?

  Qui sont derrière elles?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1579899

• a reference to footnote 2 behind the title is added.

  un appel de note no 2 est ajouté derrière le titre.

  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 3681984

More sentences

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

• More and more people are falling behind in their mortgage payments.

  De plus en plus de gens sont en rupture de paiement de leurs emprunts.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #945658 #945686

• He usually operates behind tightly closed doors.

  Il opère souvent en sous-main.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by charlotte13 and Myrano_ · checked, community translation · #2032570 #14045061

• Thomas slid his hands behind his back to unclasp his bra.

  Thomas glissa ses mains dans son dos pour dégrafer son soutien-gorge.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Blabla · checked, community translation · #6582662 #6559814

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