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# behind — English to French

How English *behind* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: behind (27 373), behinds (2). By style: everyday 636 · literary 125 · biblical 75 · parliamentary 6 755 · legal and administrative 1 051 · UN documents 18 733.

## derrière

Used about 5 341 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 451 · literary ≈ 91 · biblical ≈ 50 · parliamentary ≈ 1 930 · legal and administrative ≈ 525 · UN documents ≈ 2 294).

- I was left **behind**.
  On m'a laissé **derrière**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1682630](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1682630) [\#2009551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2009551))

- The rout **behind** the Guard was melancholy.
  La déroute **derrière** la garde fut lugubre.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7329)

- since you hate instruction, and throw my words **behind** you?
  Toi qui hais les avis, Et qui jettes mes paroles **derrière** toi!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 50:17)

- Who is **behind** them?
  Qui sont **derrière** elles?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1579899)

- a reference to footnote 2 **behind** the title is added.
  un appel de note no 2 est ajouté **derrière** le titre.
  ([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 3681984)

## More sentences

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

- More and more people are falling **behind** in their mortgage payments.
  De plus en plus de gens sont en rupture de paiement de leurs emprunts.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#945658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/945658) [\#945686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/945686))

- He usually operates **behind** tightly closed doors.
  Il opère souvent en sous-main.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by charlotte13 and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#2032570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2032570) [\#14045061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14045061))

- Thomas slid his hands **behind** his back to unclasp his bra.
  Thomas glissa ses mains dans son dos pour dégrafer son soutien-gorge.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#6582662](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6582662) [\#6559814](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6559814))

## 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

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