former — English to French
How English former is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.
What it means: former in the Elamur Dictionary.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: former (132 412), formers (86). By style: everyday 50 · literary 15 · biblical 33 · parliamentary 5 246 · legal and administrative 11 115 · UN documents 116 039.
ex
Used about 26 597 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 828 · legal and administrative ≈ 383 · UN documents ≈ 25 384).
Western Sahara was a former Spanish colony.
Le Sahara occidental est une ex-colonie espagnole.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #10896731 #10963025Firstly, reconstruction in former Yugoslavia.
Premièrement: la reconstruction de l'ex-Yougoslavie.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1755105POB: Mogilev/Mahiliou, former USSR (now Belarus)
Lieu de naissance: Mogilev/Mahiliou, ex-URSS (actuellement Biélorussie)
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 5373003Former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Ex-URSS T-72 M1T T-55 AM2
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 11307002Everyone is anxious to know what has become of the former champion.
Tout le monde est désireux de savoir ce qu'il est advenu de l'ex-champion.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and U2FS · checked, community translation · #68013 #828785
opinion
Used about 24 783 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 242 · legal and administrative ≈ 575 · UN documents ≈ 22 966).
Because of limited financial resources, we are being forced to develop concepts addressed directly at opinion formers and multipliers.
L'étroitesse du cadre financier nous oblige à développer des concepts fortement orientés vers les faiseurs d'opinion et les multiplicateurs.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 95479Journalists and opinion formers.
Journalistes et faiseurs d'opinion.
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 1001927By staying in constant contact with opinion formers, i.e. the media, it is possible to build up a consensus on research conclusions.
En établissant un contact permanent avec les relais d’opinion que sont les médias, on peut parvenir à créer un consensus autour des conclusions des recherches.
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 6730762Because, for the moment, Progress's 'target' audience is neither the unemployed nor the excluded, but political decision makers and opinion formers.
Car, pour l'instant, le public "cible" de Progress, ce ne sont ni les chômeurs ni les exclus, ce sont les décideurs politiques et les faiseurs d'opinion.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1317145activities with a view to promoting the Union’s external trade policy through a process of structured dialogue with key opinion formers of civil society and stakeholders, including small and medium-sized enterprises, on external trade issues,
des activités visant à promouvoir la politique commerciale extérieure de l’Union par un processus de dialogue structuré avec les principaux formateurs d’opinion de la société civile et les parties prenantes, y compris les petites et moyennes entreprises, sur les questions liées au commerce extérieur,
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 3444229
ancien
Used about 16 525 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 519 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 516 · UN documents ≈ 8 461). Forms: ancien, ancienne.
Who was the former prosecutor?
Qui était l'ancien procureur ?
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by megamanenm and megamanenm · checked, community translation · #10733736 #10733738He is the son of a former precentor of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas.
Il est fils d'un ancien chantre de Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2925“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old.
Ne pensez plus aux événements passés, Et ne considérez plus ce qui est ancien.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 43:18Today's Russia is not the former Soviet Union.
La Russie d'aujourd'hui n'est pas l'ancienne Union soviétique.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 983161Former RCD-G General.
Ancien général du RCD-G.
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 1673128
république
Used about 2 609 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 192 · UN documents ≈ 2 417).
Date of birth: 12.9.1952. Place of birth: Vydrikha Village, Shemonaikhinskiy (former Verkhubinskiy) District, Eastern Kazakhstan Region, Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakhstan, USSR
Né le 12.9.1952, dans le village de Vydrikh, district de Shemonaikhinsk (Verkhubinsk), Kazakhstan oriental, République socialiste soviétique du Kazakhstan, URSS
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 2210660f/ Includes an amount of $13,690,003 owed by the former German Democratic Republic for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).
f Y compris un montant de 13 690 003 dollars correspondant aux contributions non acquittées par l ' ancienne République démocratique allemande pour la Force intérimaire des Nations Unies au Liban (FINUL).
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 2288153Detailed descriptions of these regional programmes are found below: Zambia (paragraphs 18-27); Albania (28-44); The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (45-57); the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (58-79).
Ce document contient les descriptions détaillées de ces programmes régionaux : Zambie (par. 18-27); Albanie (par. 28-44); exRépublique yougoslave de Macédoine (par. 45-57) et République fédérale de Yougoslavie (par. 58-79).
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 5902487
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
Love is above money. The latter can't give as much happiness as the former.
L'amour dépasse l'argent. L'argent ne peut pas nous rendre aussi heureux que l'amour.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and menaud · checked, community translation · #28689 #12976221We have freedom of speech and freedom of thought, but the former is exercised much more than the latter.
Nous avons la liberté d'expression et la liberté de pensée, mais la première est beaucoup plus utilisée que la seconde.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #12912409 #12912635Both the French and the English like to drink, but while the latter prefer beer, the former have a weakness for red wine.
Les Français et les Anglais aiment bien boire, mais ceux-ci préfèrent la bière tandis que ceux-là ont un faible pour le vin rouge.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jhomel and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · #5073880 #2142592
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