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Forms: début, débuts. - That was only the **beginning**. Ce n'était que le **début**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3419913](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3419913) [\#6380814](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6380814)) - And after all it is only to make a **beginning**, a way of saving a few thousand francs to start fair with afterward.” D'ailleurs, ce n'est qu'un **début**, un moyen d'amasser quelques milliers de francs pour m'établir ensuite. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2141) - We have made interesting **beginnings**. Nous avons eu des **débuts** intéressants. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1306050) - General training courses carried out at the **beginning** of Formations générales données au **début** ([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 5036038) - AfriKids New **Beginnings** Programme Programme AfriKids pour de nouveaux **débuts** ([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 23543023) ## depuis Used about 1 844 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 191 · UN documents ≈ 1 646). - He had been thinking of nothing else since the **beginning** of the conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the question. Il ne songeait pas à autre chose **depuis** le commencement de la conversation, mais il ne savait pourquoi il n'avait pas osé faire cette question. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4924) - But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, **beginning** from Galilee even to this place.” Mais ils insistèrent, et dirent: Il soulève le peuple, en enseignant par toute la Judée, **depuis** la Galilée, où il a commencé, jusqu’ici. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 23:5) - I would add that Europe has got its public finances into better shape in the years after 1993, and it is **beginning** to reap the real rewards of that effort. J'ajoute que l'Europe a assaini ses finances publiques **depuis** 1993 et qu'elle commence à en recueillir les fruits. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1797555) - The Committee takes note with interest of the introduction of instruction in the Amazigh (Berber) language since the **beginning** of the 1995-1996 school year. Le Comité note avec intérêt l ' introduction, **depuis** la rentrée scolaire 1995-1996, de l ' enseignement de la langue amazighe (berbère). ([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 2863852) - Captain Phœbus de Châteaupers (for it is he whom the reader has had before his eyes since the **beginning** of this chapter) slowly approached the balcony. Le capitaine Phoebus de Châteaupers (car c'est lui que le lecteur a sous les yeux **depuis** le commencement de ce chapitre) s'approcha à pas lents du balcon. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3668) ## dès Used about 1 398 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 191 · legal and administrative ≈ 92 · UN documents ≈ 1 097). - **Beginning** with 1818, doctrinarians began to spring up in them, a disturbing shade. **Dès** 1818, quelques doctrinaires commencèrent à y poindre, nuance inquiétante. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13368) - You will also testify, because you have been with me from the **beginning**. et vous aussi, vous rendrez témoignage, parce que vous êtes avec moi **dès** le commencement. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 15:27) - The promising attempt at a solution in the form of co-financing was allowed to slip out of sight at the very **beginning**, which was an amateurish way to proceed. On a abandonné **dès** l'abord, avec dilettantisme, l'idée prometteuse du cofinancement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2001401) - Germany welcomed the many comments expressing the view that universities relied, from the **beginnings**, on cost-effective solutions that HIS provided. Le gouvernement fédéral s’est félicité des nombreuses observations formulées, selon lesquelles les établissements d’enseignement supérieur se sont, **dès** le départ, appuyés sur les solutions rentables proposées par HIS GmbH. ([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 5070471) - Therefore this was one of the areas of key importance from the **beginning**. Ce fut donc l ' un des points essentiels **dès** le départ. ([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 26271435) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - At the **beginning**, I knew no word in German. Au départ, je ne connaissais aucun mot en allemand. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#14094989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14094989) [\#14094990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14094990)) - Let's start from the **beginning**. Commençons par le commencement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2007352](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2007352) [\#14254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14254)) - Death is both the end and the **beginning**. La mort est à la fois la fin et le commencement. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Mar1L and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5618367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5618367) [\#7705277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7705277)) ## 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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