start — English to French

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

What it means: start in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: start (67 260), starts (4 477). By style: everyday 885 · literary 25 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 12 785 · legal and administrative 9 948 · UN documents 48 093.

commence

Used about 20 924 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 479 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 463 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 451 · UN documents ≈ 15 530). Forms: commence, commencer.

• She starts to talk.

  Elle commence à parler.

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• “Before we start on a second fishing excursion, suppose we complete the first?”

  --Avant d'en commencer une seconde, si nous terminions la première?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2235

• That starts with the young people.

  Cela commence avec les jeunes.

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• The code starts at 400-010-9.

  La numérotation commence à 400-010-9.

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• It starts at paragraph 37.

  Cette section commence au paragraphe 37.

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début

Used about 8 247 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 799 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 902 · UN documents ≈ 4 509).

• How long to go before the game starts?

  Combien de temps avant le début du jeu?

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• And after all it is only to make a beginning, a way of saving a few thousand francs to start fair with afterward.”

  D'ailleurs, ce n'est qu'un début, un moyen d'amasser quelques milliers de francs pour m'établir ensuite.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2141

• But it was a merely a start.

  Mais ce n'était qu'un début.

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• Delivery start date and time

  Date et heure de début de livraison

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• The circulation must be done by the delegation concerned before the meeting starts.

  Elle doit en assurer elle-même la distribution avant le début de la séance.

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démarrage

Used about 4 042 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 036 · UN documents ≈ 3 006).

• Start-up and shut-down period

  Périodes de démarrage et d'arrêt

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• Wact,hot is the actual cycle work on the hot start test, kWh

  Wact,hot est le travail effectif au cours du cycle pendant l ' essai de démarrage à chaud, en kWh

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• The hot start cycle may then be rerun.

  Le cycle de démarrage à chaud peut alors être recommencé.

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• The start-up of the mission in the Sudan and the expansion of MONUC would total in the region of $900 million.

  Le démarrage de la mission au Soudan et l ' expansion de la MONUC devraient coûter quelque 900 millions de dollars au total.

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• is the fuel mass of the cold start test, g/test

  correspond à la masse de carburant de l’essai en cas de démarrage à froid, en g/essai;

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avant

Used about 2 083 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 666 · legal and administrative ≈ 415 · UN documents ≈ 1 002).

• The steamer Ellenora, did not start until night.

  Le steamer l'Ellenora, ne partait pas avant la nuit.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 701

• On the subject of young people, research has shown that 90% of smokers start smoking as children, as under 18s.

  Au sujet des jeunes, la recherche montre que 90 % des fumeurs ont commencé à fumer avant l'âge de 18 ans.

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• A train running forecast can also be sent before the train starts running.

  Une prévision de circulation d’un train peut également être envoyée avant le départ du train.

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• It does not partake in political negotiations to start or to stop investigations or proceedings.

  Elle ne participe pas à des négociations politiques avant de décider d ' ouvrir ou de suspendre une enquête ou une procédure.

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• I am firmly of the opinion that we must set a date before the end of 2003 for the start of Turkey's accession process.

  Je suis persuadé qu'avant la fin de 2003, il nous faudra fixer une date pour entamer le processus de son entrée dans l'Union.

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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.

• Where did you start learning to speak Dutch?

  Où as-tu commencé à apprendre à parler néerlandais ?

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• When do you start writing your bibliography?

  Quand commences-tu à écrire ta bibliographie ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #14057885 #14057886

• Don't start over, please.

  Ne recommence pas, s’il te plaît.

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