moment — French to English

How French moment 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: moment (141 285), moments (4 230). By style: everyday 1 423 · literary 298 · biblical 67 · parliamentary 19 172 · legal and administrative 22 255 · UN documents 102 300.

time

Used about 81 339 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 572 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 6 391 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 518 · UN documents ≈ 61 806). Forms: time, times. Meaning: time in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les bons moments sont terminés.

  The good times are over.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and _undertoad · checked, community translation · #7587462 #7645939

• Elles donnaient par moments de petites tapes aux jeunes gens.

  From time to time they bestowed little taps on the young men.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2776

• Depuis ce moment, il cherchait une occasion favorable pour livrer Jésus.

  From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 26:16

• Le moment est mal choisi.

  It is not the right time.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 888769

• moments (jours) du début et de la fin de la période d'étude

  time (days) at start and end of study period

  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 1537781

moment

Used about 24 482 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 325 · literary ≈ 208 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 4 993 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 100 · UN documents ≈ 13 853). Forms: moment, moments. Meaning: moment in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'est un moment crucial.

  This is a crucial moment.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #6133039 #8473486

• Il resta un moment rêveur.

  He reflected for a moment.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6252

• Car nos légères afflictions du moment présent produisent pour nous, au-delà de toute mesure, un poids éternel de gloire,

  For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 4:17

• Cela se paie dans les moments cruciaux.

  That comes home to roost at critical moments.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 204572

• moment de flexion de référence maximal [Nm]

  maximum reference bending moment [Nm]

  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 5424719

when

Used about 6 757 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 2 596 · legal and administrative ≈ 927 · UN documents ≈ 3 197). Meaning: when in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Juste au moment où la chenille pensait que le monde était fini, elle devint papillon.

  Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #5646976 #5647134

• Il se tenait donc depuis quelques moments, pensant ou ne pensant pas, appuyé en silence au chambranle sculpté de la cheminée, quand Fleur-de-Lys, se tournant soudain, lui adressa la parole.

  He had remained, therefore, for several minutes, leaning in silence against the carved jamb of the chimney, and thinking or not thinking, when Fleur-de-Lys suddenly turned and addressed him.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3661

• Au moment où les visions de la nuit agitent la pensée, Quand les hommes sont livrés à un profond sommeil,

  In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 4:13

• Nous discutons du budget 2011 à un moment où nous consolidons les budgets publics.

  We are debating the 2011 budget at a time when we are consolidating public budgets.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1416730

• Il convient de définir le moment où l'engagement d'importer ou d'exporter est rempli.

  It is necessary to define when the undertaking to export or import is fulfilled.

  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 1518903

More sentences

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

• Nous allons tous mourir à un moment ou à un autre.

  We're all going to die at some point.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · #12225926 #12225924

• C'est tout ce que nous pouvons faire pour le moment.

  That's all we can do for now.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2870387 #7862575

• Je ne vous ai pas vus depuis un moment.

  I haven't seen you for a while.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #417014 #1356425

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