alors — French to English

How French alors is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: alors (165 747). By style: everyday 922 · literary 190 · biblical 747 · parliamentary 26 355 · legal and administrative 10 134 · UN documents 127 399.

then

Used about 28 711 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 173 · literary ≈ 150 · biblical ≈ 342 · parliamentary ≈ 7 687 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 434 · UN documents ≈ 15 925). Meaning: then in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Vous connaissiez Tom alors ?

  Did you know Tom then?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by atitarev and CK · checked, community translation · #12306745 #13115878

• --Alors vous connaissez l'Inde?

  “Then you know India?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 527

• Alors auraient passé sur notre âme Les flots impétueux.

  Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 124:5

• Ce n'est qu'alors qu'il fonctionnera comme il se doit.

  Only then will it function in the right way.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1352466

• Ce service peut alors:

  The said department may then either:

  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 5413456

time

Used about 13 220 times in the texts (literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 1 098 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 478 · UN documents ≈ 10 617). Meaning: time in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le marquis de Montcalm était un royaliste alors célèbre.

  The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2960

• Mais le tabernacle de l’Éternel, construit par Moïse au désert, et l’autel des holocaustes, étaient alors sur le haut lieu de Gabaon.

  For the LORD’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 21:29

• C'est maintenant et ici, où se décide notre avenir, que vous devez faire preuve de cette fermeté dominant votre politique d'alors.

  Now is the time for you to demonstrate the forcefulness of your politics there, here, where our future is being decided.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 343757

• Jahnke pourrait alors s'en servir jusqu'à ce que le premier conclue la convention de vente dans les délais légaux.

  Mr Jahnke could utilise the assets until such time as the receiver terminated the agreement within the legal deadline.

  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 589644

• Les témoins ont identifié Miguel Lemus, qui était alors membre de la Défense civile.

  Witnesses identified Miguel Lemus, who was a civil defence member at the time.

  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 412894

More sentences

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

• La route est verglacée, alors fais attention.

  The road is icy, so take care.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by SUZIE and CK · checked, community translation · #280375 #510961

• Vous ne traiteriez pas autrui de cette façon, alors ne vous faites pas cela à vous-même.

  You wouldn't treat someone else like that, so don't do it to yourself.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · #12067823 #12069450

• Je ne disposais pas d'autre moyen de vous contacter alors je suis venu ici en personne.

  I had no other way of contacting you, so I came here in person.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2331700 #2430056

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