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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#256000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/256000) [\#127661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/127661)) - All the world has seen him **before** we can show him. **Avant** qu'on le montre, tout le monde l'a vu. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6911) - If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me **before** it hated you. Si le monde vous hait, sachez qu’il m’a haï **avant** vous. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 15:18) - **Before** the crisis, the Koreans would not accept a reduction in capacity. Les Coréens, **avant** la crise, n'acceptaient pas de réductions de capacité. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1827952) - an aircraft produced **before** 2 March 2027; un aéronef produit **avant** le 2 mars 2027, ([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 4258839) ## était Used about 48 558 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 594 · legal and administrative ≈ 962 · UN documents ≈ 46 997). - Some one was, in fact, behind him, as there had been a short while **before**. Comme tout à l'heure, quelqu'un en effet **était** derrière lui. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28220) - The result **before** us is proof positive of the fact that giving the European Parliament a say was the right move. Le résultat qui nous est soumis montre aussi qu'il **était** indiqué d'impliquer comme il se devait le Parlement européen. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 114475) - It is further recalled that the price fixing period was well **before** the period considered. Il convient également de rappeler que la période de fixation des prix **était** bien antérieure à la période considérée. ([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 2922025) - 7. In connection with its work, the Working Group had **before** it: Dans le cadre de ses travaux, le Groupe de travail **était** saisi des documents suivants : ([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 11614168) - 3. For its consideration of the item, the Committee had **before** it the following documents: Pour l ' examen de la question, la Commission **était** saisie des documents suivants : ([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 25304457) ## devant Used about 32 155 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 50 · literary ≈ 55 · biblical ≈ 895 · parliamentary ≈ 1 782 · UN documents ≈ 29 373). - There will always be things I will never learn, I don't have eternity **before** me! Il y aura toujours des choses que je n'apprendrai jamais, je n'ai pas l'éternité **devant** moi ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bmorsello and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#1500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1500) [\#3315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3315)) - He placed the sheet of paper **before** M. Leblanc. Il posa la feuille de papier **devant** M. Leblanc. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17567) - Plague went **before** him, and pestilence followed his feet. **Devant** lui marche la peste, Et la peste est sur ses traces. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HAB 3:5) - Will it initiate proceedings against Greece **before** the Court of Justice? Engagera-t-elle des poursuites contra la Grèce **devant** la Cour de justice? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 957821) - It is a great honour for me to be invited to speak **before** this historical forum. C ' est pour moi un grand honneur que d ' être invité à prendre la parole **devant** cette instance historique. ([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 13410018) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom had never kissed anyone **before**. Tom n'avait jamais embrassé quelqu'un auparavant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7000263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7000263) [\#7001314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7001314)) - I'd never seen you like that **before**. Je ne vous avais jamais vues ainsi auparavant. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4914186](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4914186) [\#8362107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8362107)) - Haven't we met somewhere **before**? On ne s'est pas déjà rencontrés quelque part ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4017014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4017014) [\#13378325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13378325)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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