Elamur Translatedébut — French to English
How French début is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: début (96 168), débute (1 551), débuts (1 599). By style: everyday 323 · literary 3 · parliamentary 8 940 · legal and administrative 10 308 · UN documents 79 744.
beginning
Used about 19 875 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 122 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 235 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 009 · UN documents ≈ 15 506). Forms: beginning, begins. Meaning: beginning in the Elamur Dictionary.
C'est que le début.
It's only just the beginning.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zelphy and CK · checked, community translation · #3377177 #8103443D'ailleurs, ce n'est qu'un début, un moyen d'amasser quelques milliers de francs pour m'établir ensuite.
And after all it is only to make a beginning, a way of saving a few thousand francs to start fair with afterward.”
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2141(La séance débute à 9 heures)
(The session begins at 9.00)
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1016664L'ordre du jour définitif est arrêté par les coprésidents au début de chaque réunion.
The final agenda shall be adopted by the Co-chairs at the beginning of each meeting.
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 3826911Solde en début de période
Cash at beginning of period
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 23027595
early
Used about 18 833 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 807 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 398 · UN documents ≈ 16 613). Meaning: early in the Elamur Dictionary.
Ma sœur se marie au début de l'année prochaine.
My sister will get married early next year.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1409653 #1564209Le marché du commerce électronique n'en est qu'à ses débuts et est encore sous-développé.
The e-commerce market is at a very early stage and is still underdeveloped.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 227750le recrutement en vue de la formation de chercheurs en début de carrière,
the recruitment of early-stage researchers to be trained,
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 867102Réunion début février, puis mars
Met early February, next meeting March
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 9781087Je me sens parfois somnolent en début d'après-midi.
I sometimes feel drowsy in the early afternoon.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #953618 #955674
start
Used about 17 178 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · parliamentary ≈ 2 297 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 756 · UN documents ≈ 11 076). Forms: start, starts. Meaning: start in the Elamur Dictionary.
C'est que le début.
That's just a start.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zelphy and CK · checked, community translation · #5481459 #8103443Elle s'attend à ce que ce progrès débute immédiatement.
We expect that progress to start now.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1020391Début de l'électrophorèse sur gel d'agarose:
Start of the Gel-Electrophoresis:
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 3940398Le rapport débute par des estimations chiffrées.
332. The report starts with numerical estimates.
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 6852005L'école débute à neuf heures.
School starts at nine.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petro1 and papabear · checked, community translation · #716137 #9425
since
Used about 4 541 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 310 · legal and administrative ≈ 349 · UN documents ≈ 3 876). Meaning: since in the Elamur Dictionary.
Beaucoup de progrès a été fait depuis le début de ce siècle.
Many improvements have been made since this century began.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #242142 #8508Le réseau Natura 2000 est l’une des meilleures avancées accomplies depuis les débuts de l’Union.
The Natura 2000 network is one of the best moves made since the Union's inception.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 659924Comme ce protocole reposait entièrement, à ses débuts, sur du texte au format ASCII, il n'était pas bien adapté aux fichiers binaires.
Since this protocol started as purely ASCII text-based it did not deal well with binary files.
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 1388135Début juillet 1995, 650 personnes ayant demandé asile se trouvaient détenues.
Since July 1995, 650 persons seeking asylum had been detained.
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 2756937J'ai vécu les événements depuis la phase finale de Rambouillet jusqu'au début des actions militaires.
Since 1992, we have tried everything in order to convince Milosevic to abandon this policy.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2001521
when
Used about 3 140 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 186 · legal and administrative ≈ 175 · UN documents ≈ 2 769). Meaning: when in the Elamur Dictionary.
À nos débuts, nous n'avions que six employés.
When we started out, we only had six employees.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #954634 #12020046A mes débuts, j'ai rencontré une personne qui était connue sous le nom de "lait écrémé" au cours du budget.
When I first began, during the budget I met a person who was known as 'Skimmed milk'.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1062684Lorsqu'un changement est attendu, la prévision FORECAST débute par l'un des indicateurs d'évolution «BECMG» ou «TEMPO».
When a change is expected to occur, the TREND forecast shall begin with one of the change indicators ‘BECMG’ or ‘TEMPO’.
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 4030431La collecte des données de mesure dans les espaces fermés à la suite du choc débute lorsque le véhicule s ' est immobilisé.
Post-crash data collection in enclosed spaces commences when the vehicle comes to a rest.
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 28116266L'actrice a fait ses débuts à l'âge de huit ans.
The actress made her debut when she was eight.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #46588 #9623365
period
Used about 2 480 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 62 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 310 · UN documents ≈ 1 108). Meaning: period in the Elamur Dictionary.
Monsieur le Président, Madame la Chancelière, honorables députés, je nourris de grands espoirs pour la période qui débute maintenant et se terminera à la fin de ce mandat parlementaire.
Mr President, Madam Chancellor, honourable Members, I have high hopes for the period between now and the end of this parliamentary term.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 906110La première période débute le 1er avril 2006.
The first period shall begin on 1 April 2006.
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 1593885J ' ai l ' espoir que ces initiatives annoncent le début d ' une nouvelle période de productivité.
I hope that these steps represent the beginnings of a new period of productivity.
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 15096516le début de la période à laquelle un délai s'applique.
The commencement of the period to which a time limit applies.
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 277601681. La retenue est en général payable en deux étapes, la première étant le début, l ' autre la fin de la période d ' entretien ou de maintenance.
The retention is usually payable in two stages, one at the commencement of the maintenance period, as it is often called, and the other at the end.
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 9683446
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
Au début, j'ai essayé de tout noter dans mon carnet.
At first I tried to write everything down in my notebook.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by icietla and CK · checked, community translation · #244044 #331627Il n'était pas comme ça au début.
He wasn't like that at first.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #7285354 #10604581Tu avais raison depuis le début.
You were right all along.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #3356450 #9749027
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