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# already — English to French

How English *already* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [already in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/already/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: already (182 015). By style: everyday 1 714 · literary 76 · biblical 40 · parliamentary 36 155 · legal and administrative 18 379 · UN documents 125 651.

## déjà

Used about 149 318 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 678 · literary ≈ 63 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 29 376 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 082 · UN documents ≈ 102 091).

- I'm **already** done.
  J'ai **déjà** terminé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1308819](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1308819) [\#1308909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1308909))

- It was **already** done.
  C'était **déjà** fait.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7744)

- For **already** some have turned away after Satan.
  car **déjà** quelques-unes se sont détournées pour suivre Satan.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 5:15)

- I **already** knew that.
  Je le savais **déjà**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 688179)

- Capital add-ons **already** set
  Exigences de capital supplémentaire **déjà** définies
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3767050)

## avons

Used about 2 625 times in the texts (literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 2 618).

- Cosette, as we have **already** said, had not been ill.
  Cosette, nous l'**avons** dit, n'avait pas été malade.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4495)

- Do this, knowing the time, that it is **already** time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
  Cela importe d’autant plus que vous savez en quel temps nous sommes: c’est l’heure de vous réveiller enfin du sommeil, car maintenant le salut est plus près de nous que lorsque nous **avons** cru.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 13:11)

- Lastly, we wish to convey our gratitude for the expressions of solidarity **already** received from many Governments, which have shared our sorrow in these difficult times.
  Enfin, nous voudrions nous féliciter des manifestations de solidarité que nous **avons** reçues de nombreux gouvernements qui se sont associés à notre douleur dans ces moments difficiles.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11569998)

- We have **already** explained that the lanterns had not been lighted that night.
  Nous **avons** expliqué que les réverbères n'avaient pas été allumés cette nuit-là.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9862)

- The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have **already** said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather.
  L'ivresse des amoureux n'était égalée, nous l'**avons** dit, que par l'extase du grand-père.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29232)

## été

Used about 768 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2 · legal and administrative ≈ 766).

- so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has **already** done.
  et d’annoncer l’Évangile au-delà de chez vous, sans nous glorifier de ce qui a **été** fait dans les limites assignées à d’autres.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 10:16)

- that consignment was introduced into the area concerned less than 5 months ago and it had **already** been infested before introduction; and
  que ce lot a **été** introduit dans la zone en question moins de cinq mois auparavant et que son infestation est antérieure à son introduction dans cette zone; et
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2011122)

- yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was **already** named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.
  Et je me suis fait honneur d’annoncer l’Évangile là où Christ n’avait point **été** nommé, afin de ne pas bâtir sur le fondement d’autrui, selon qu’il est écrit:
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 15:20)

- According to them, a couple of pilot auctions have **already** taken place and they were quite successful in pushing an average price down to EUR 7,25 cents/kWh in August 2016.
  Selon elles, quelques enchères pilotes ont **été** organisées et ont remporté un succès incontestable en faisant baisser le prix moyen à 7,25 cents/kWh en août 2016.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 4269092)

## More sentences

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

- When you arrived, the ceremony had **already** taken place.
  Quand vous êtes venu, la cérémonie avait eu lieu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and albouni7 · checked, community translation · [\#12252898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12252898) [\#2605843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2605843))

- it is a chronic leprosy in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not isolate him, for he is **already** unclean.
  c’est une lèpre invétérée dans la peau du corps de cet homme: le sacrificateur le déclarera impur; il ne l’enfermera pas, car il est impur.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 13:11)

- All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt **already**.
  Les personnes issues de Jacob étaient au nombre de soixante-dix en tout. Joseph était alors en Égypte.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 1:5)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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