earlier — English to French

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

What it means: earlier in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: earlier (46 822). By style: everyday 248 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 5 002 · legal and administrative 4 009 · UN documents 37 562.

tôt

Used about 4 223 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 217 · parliamentary ≈ 625 · legal and administrative ≈ 251 · UN documents ≈ 3 130).

• I saw him earlier this morning.

  Je l'ai vu tôt ce matin.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and tras · checked, community translation · #3910619 #7677794

• I think they should do it much earlier.

  Je pense qu'ils devraient faire quelque chose beaucoup plus tôt.

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• occur significantly earlier than indicated in the data, or

  se produire sensiblement plus tôt qu’il n’est indiqué dans ces informations, ou

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• The suspect was extradited from Sweden earlier this year.

  Le suspect avait été extradé de Suède plus tôt dans l ' année en cours.

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• We should've come earlier.

  Nous aurions dû venir plus tôt.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by deniko and felix63 · checked, community translation · #8763384 #8766880

dit

Used about 2 711 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 146 · UN documents ≈ 1 565).

• As someone said earlier, this is a big challenge.

  Comme quelqu'un l'a dit avant moi, nous sommes confrontés à un défi immense.

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• 2. Mr. de GOUTTES (Country Rapporteur) said that the phrase “other minorities” should be replaced by “minorities”, as had been done in earlier paragraphs.

  2. M. de GOUTTES (Rapporteur pour le pays) dit que l’expression “autres minorités” doit être remplacée par “minorités”, comme cela a été fait dans les paragraphes précédents.

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• As stated earlier, we are very serious about both these resolutions.

  Comme je l'ai dit en introduction, les deux décisions sont graves.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1806043

• 95. Mr. CHEBROT (Uganda) said that there was a difference between what the representative of Sudan had just said and the interpretation into English of the earlier Sudanese statement.

  95. M. CHEBROT (Ouganda) dit constater une différence entre ce que vient de déclarer le représentant du Soudan et ce que lui avait restitué l ' interprète dans la matinée.

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• As I said earlier, what we want is action and not words.

  Comme je l'ai déjà dit précédemment, nous voulons des actes et non des mots.

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heure

Used about 1 157 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 146).

• Why didn't you call me earlier?

  Pourquoi ne m’as-tu pas appelé tout à l’heure ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Igider · checked, community translation · #6053056 #10517006

• I will take two examples that I referred to earlier.

  Je prendrai deux exemples évoqués tout à l'heure.

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• Did you see the sunrise earlier? It was really beautiful.

  As-tu vu le lever de soleil tout à l'heure ? C'était vraiment beau.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Whidou · checked, community translation · #4203528 #4546857

• Mr Desama, indeed, put it perfectly earlier this evening.

  M. Desama l'a d'ailleurs parfaitement énoncé tout à l'heure.

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• Mrs Kinnock spoke earlier of the electoral aid device.

  Mme Kinnock a parlé tout à l'heure du dispositif d'assistance électorale.

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More sentences

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

• Had they known earlier, they would have acted differently.

  S'ils avaient su, ils auraient agi différemment.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and genes1s · checked, community translation · #12772552 #13350428

• Please forgive me for not having written to you earlier.

  Veuillez m'excuser de ne pas vous avoir écrit avant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by witbrock and Archibald · checked, community translation · #430663 #128972

• With Microsoft Office documents, versions 2003 or earlier, when you save a file with a password, hackers can break that password in seconds.

  Les documents Microsoft Office de versions égales ou antérieures à 2003 qu’on sauve avec un mot de passe peuvent être décodés par des hackers en quelques secondes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marioo and marioo · checked, community translation · #8359458 #8359457

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