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J’espère que ce sera pour le **début** de 2004 au plus tard. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 531467) - Address: Rwanda (as of **early** 2016). Adresse: Rwanda (au **début** 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 4153450) - 27. In **early** 2003, UNDC commenced a design competition for a new building. Au **début** 2003, la UNDC a lancé un concours pour la conception du nouveau bâtiment. ([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 11472205) - It just wants to replay the fights of the **early** 70s. Son seul objectif est de reproduire les luttes du **début** des années 70. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1530716) - Parex banka sought State assistance in **early** November 2008. Parex Banka a demandé l’aide de l’État **début** novembre 2008. ([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 2262113) ## dès Used about 8 034 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 858 · legal and administrative ≈ 157 · UN documents ≈ 7 005). - There was nothing notable in the event which thus set the bells and the bourgeois of Paris in a ferment from **early** morning. Rien de notable dans l'événement qui mettait ainsi en branle, **dès** le matin, les cloches et les bourgeois de Paris. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 28) - All the people came **early** in the morning to him in the temple to hear him. Et tout le peuple, **dès** le matin, se rendait vers lui dans le temple pour l’écouter. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 21:38) - We said 'no' to thrombin at an **early** stage. Nous avons dit "non" à la thrombine **dès** le départ. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1397772) - Means shall be provided to detect and give alarms at an **early** stage in case of fires: 1 Des moyens doivent être prévus pour qu’une détection soit assurée et l’alarme donnée **dès** l’origine d’un incendie: ([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 5162889) - Further, it was considered necessary to initiate space education already during **early** childhood. En outre, on a estimé que l ' enseignement des disciplines spatiales devait commencer **dès** la petite enfance. ([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 25586804) ## tôt Used about 6 871 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 755 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 287 · legal and administrative ≈ 157 · UN documents ≈ 4 670). - It's way too **early**. C'est beaucoup trop **tôt**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5386971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5386971) [\#11700410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11700410)) - “Up so **early**?” said Madame Thénardier; “is Monsieur leaving us already?” --Levé si **tôt**! dit la Thénardier, est-ce que monsieur nous quitte déjà? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8970) - When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so **early** today?” Quand elles furent de retour auprès de Réuel, leur père, il dit: Pourquoi revenez-vous si **tôt** aujourd’hui? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 2:18) - Therefore, we must not give in at too **early** a stage. Par conséquent, nous ne devons pas céder aussi **tôt**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1438989) - A schedule may be disruptive due to **early** starts, late finishes or night duties. Un horaire peut être perturbateur s’il débute **tôt**, se termine tard ou s’il implique un service de nuit; ([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 3247344) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I don't care if the **early** bird gets the worm. I want to sleep. Je me fiche que l'avenir appartienne à ceux qui se lèvent, je veux dormir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#901529](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/901529) [\#3521212](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3521212)) - I got up **early**. Je me suis levé de bonne heure. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#259164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/259164) [\#1962817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1962817)) - John came back **early**. Jean revint de bonne heure. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#12608448](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12608448) [\#9353812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9353812)) ## 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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