past — English to French

How English past is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: past in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: past (116 329), pasts (23). By style: everyday 369 · literary 49 · biblical 46 · parliamentary 10 322 · legal and administrative 4 661 · UN documents 100 905.

dernières

Used about 30 903 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 508 · legal and administrative ≈ 285 · UN documents ≈ 30 094).

• We've achieved a lot in the past three years.

  Nous avons accompli beaucoup de choses au cours des trois dernières années.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #5621893 #5622502

• The Lamfalussy procedure, which we have all worked hard to develop over the past few years, works.

  La procédure Lamfalussy, sur le développement de laquelle nous avons tous travaillé très dur ces dernières années, fonctionne.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 829806

• Public consumption has remained at a subdued level during the past three years.

  La consommation publique est demeurée léthargique au cours des trois dernières années.

  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 5650475

• Over the past years CCF has experienced an increase in the populations of young and female offenders.

  101. Le nombre de jeunes et de femmes placés dans le Centre a augmenté ces dernières années.

  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 20355149

• Even though I have studied English at school for the past six years, I'm still not good at speaking it.

  Bien qu'ayant étudié l'anglais à l'école ces six dernières années, je ne le parle toujours pas bien.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #253490 #8328222

passé

Used about 21 100 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 169 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 5 415 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 332 · UN documents ≈ 14 162).

• He walked past the house.

  Il est passé devant la maison.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #290597 #7550708

• This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport.

  Ce revenant, le passé, est sujet à falsifier son passeport.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10869

• For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.

  Car voici, l’hiver est passé; La pluie a cessé, elle s’en est allée.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · SOL 2:11

• Europe is now a thing of the past.

  L’Europe appartient aujourd’hui au passé.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 766108

• The process has started in the past and is still active.

  Le processus a débuté dans le passé et est encore actif.

  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 3050288

cours

Used about 11 517 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 508 · legal and administrative ≈ 380 · UN documents ≈ 10 622).

• Have you had a persistent cough within the past few days?

  As-tu eu une toux persistante au cours des derniers jours ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #9849458 #9965388

• The Estonia tragedy was only one of many ferry disasters in the past decade.

  La tragédie de l'Estonia ne fut, au cours de la dernière décennie, qu'un des nombreux désastres à bord de ferries.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1892098

• Occurrence of an accident at home in the past 12 months

  Survenue d'un accident domestique au cours des 12 derniers mois

  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 4596366

• Evolution of ECLAC extrabudgetary actual expenditure during the past three biennia

  Évolution des dépenses extrabudgétaires effectives au cours des trois derniers exercices biennaux

  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 8619990

• Over the past few months, the European Union has repeatedly called on the Sudanese Government to cooperate unconditionally with the ICC.

  Au cours des derniers mois, l'Union européenne a plusieurs fois appelé le gouvernement du Soudan à coopérer sans conditions avec la CPI.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1088133

années

Used about 5 406 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 95 · UN documents ≈ 5 311).

• The Finnish NCA confirmed that over the past few years peat has been facing an increasing competitive pressure from wood [17].

  L'ANC finlandaise a confirmé que depuis quelques années, la tourbe était soumise à la pression concurrentielle croissante du bois [17].

  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 4143037

• JS1 indicated that such bias also affected LGBT persons and Jews in the pasts few years.

  Les auteurs de la communication conjointe no 1 précisent que les LGBT et les Juifs se heurtent aussi à ce genre de discrimination depuis quelques années.

  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 24050681

• Jurisdictions that prosecute cartels criminally include Australia, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom and, for the past several decades, the United States.

  Parmi les juridictions qui poursuivent les ententes au pénal figurent l ' Australie, le Brésil, le Canada, le Royaume-Uni et, depuis quelques dizaines d ' années, les États-Unis.

  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 23334050

• Foreigners are mostly interested, as in past years, in specific retraining courses, i.e. courses that are focused on specific work activities as required by employers.

  Comme observé au cours des années précédentes, les étrangers sont surtout intéressés par des stages de reconversion focalisés sur des spécialités professionnelles demandées par les employeurs.

  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 29475229

More sentences

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

• "You'll never get past the guards." "I'll take my chances."

  « Vous ne parviendrez jamais à passer les gardes. » « Je tenterai ma chance. »

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #1858653 #11436154

• The bullet train came roaring past.

  Le train à grande vitesse passa en rugissant.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by beauzavier and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #460328 #1419506

• It happened at a quarter past eleven.

  Ça s'est déroulé à onze heures et quart.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and U2FS · checked, community translation · #42838 #799555

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