ancien — French to English

How French ancien is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: ancien (36 426), ancienes (2), anciens (27 491). By style: everyday 177 · literary 40 · biblical 214 · parliamentary 4 850 · legal and administrative 6 791 · UN documents 51 847.

former

Used about 41 674 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 1 667 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 588 · UN documents ≈ 34 388). Meaning: former in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'est un de mes anciens élèves.

  He's a former pupil of mine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · #11982597 #12943477

• Il est fils d'un ancien chantre de Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas.

  He is the son of a former precentor of 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

• On ne se souvient pas de ce qui est ancien; et ce qui arrivera dans la suite ne laissera pas de souvenir chez ceux qui vivront plus tard.

  There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 1:11

• Le chiffre enregistré pour les 15 anciens États membres est de loin inférieur; il est de 25%.

  The figure in the former 15 Member States is much lower, at 25%.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 616733

• Ancien directeur général: Win Tun.

  Former Managing Director: Win Tun.

  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 2272429

old

Used about 7 230 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 87 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 36 · parliamentary ≈ 1 768 · legal and administrative ≈ 566 · UN documents ≈ 4 761). Meaning: old in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'adore les ouvrages anciens.

  I love old books.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · #5325975 #5558969

• --Lequel? l'ancien ou le nouveau?

  “Which one? the old one or the new one?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30133

• J’ouvre la bouche par des sentences, Je publie la sagesse des temps anciens.

  I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 78:2

• Ils ont soulevé avec moi la question de la ville - l’ancien "bourg".

  They raised with me the problem of the town - the old borough.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 530819

• Coût estimé bâtiments anciens(a)

  Estimated cost of old buildings (a)

  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 1109813

elders

Used about 1 188 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 126 · UN documents ≈ 1 058).

• Je l'ai entendu des anciens autrefois.

  I heard it from the elders long ago.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by anzart and anzart · checked, community translation · #12665380 #12665377

• Et Moïse se retira au camp, lui et les anciens d’Israël.

  Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 11:30

• :: Permettent les réunions des conseils d ' anciens;

  :: Allow for meetings of elders councils.

  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 21587273

• Les anciens décidèrent de le chasser du village.

  The elders decided to expel him from the village.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #5336039 #8447930

• Pour l’avoir possédée, les anciens ont obtenu un témoignage favorable.

  For by this, the elders obtained approval.

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

More sentences

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

• J'apprends le grec ancien.

  I'm learning Ancient Greek.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · #5780383 #6860778

• Tom est l'ami d'un ami d'un ancien collègue.

  Tom is a friend of a friend of a person I used to work with.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CK · checked, community translation · #11963167 #11963168

• Le Go est le jeu le plus ancien, le plus simple et le plus complexe au monde.

  Go is the world's oldest, simplest, and most complex game.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10404016 #10404205

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