first — English to French

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

What it means: first in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: first (588 678), firsts (17). By style: everyday 1 884 · literary 247 · biblical 378 · parliamentary 51 643 · legal and administrative 62 065 · UN documents 472 478.

premier

Used about 402 530 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 609 · literary ≈ 180 · biblical ≈ 268 · parliamentary ≈ 31 181 · legal and administrative ≈ 54 307 · UN documents ≈ 314 985). Forms: premier, premiers, première, premières.

• Am I the first?

  Suis-je la première ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Airvian and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5112919 #5063547

• It was for the first time.

  C'était la première fois.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8288

• They first went forward according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.

  Ils firent ce premier départ sur l’ordre de l’Éternel par Moïse.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 10:13

• The first area is humanitarian aid.

  Le premier domaine est l'aide humanitaire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1310936

• The first component (an..3)

  Le premier élément (an..3)

  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 5367595

abord

Used about 15 813 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 79 · literary ≈ 41 · biblical ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 7 795 · UN documents ≈ 7 875).

• Let me speak to him first.

  Laisse-moi d'abord lui parler.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3906873 #11888281

• It was first an alphabet.

  Elle fut d'abord alphabet.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2574

• Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.

  Qu’on les éprouve d’abord, et qu’ils exercent ensuite leur ministère, s’ils sont sans reproche.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 3:10

• I will first turn to Mr Popa.

  Je me tourne d'abord vers Nicolae Popa.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1268307

• First, according to the report, chiefly title holders represented their extended family and she would like to know who was included in that group.

  Tout d ' abord, les détenteurs du titre de chef représentent leur famille élargie et elle voudrait savoir qui fait partie de ce groupe.

  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 13461859

fois

Used about 5 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5).

• The first two or three times that he turned round he saw nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat reassured.

  Les deux ou trois premières fois qu'il se retourna, il ne vit rien, le silence était profond, il continua sa marche un peu rassuré.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9737

More sentences

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

• I had stage fright at first, but I got over it quickly.

  Au début, j'avais le trac, mais je l'ai rapidement surmonté.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #243977 #1451446

• Do you remember the day when you and I first met?

  Te souviens-tu du jour où l'on s'est rencontré ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #71214 #7731108

• First of all, you have to read this book.

  Pour commencer, tu dois lire ce livre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and phil77 · checked, community translation · #32815 #900666

Grammar

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