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Forms: premier, premiers, première, premières. - Am I the **first**? Suis-je la **première** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Airvian and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#5112919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5112919) [\#5063547](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5063547)) - It was for the **first** time. C'était la **première** fois. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8288) - They **first** went forward according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses. Ils firent ce **premier** départ sur l’ordre de l’Éternel par Moïse. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 10:13) - The **first** area is humanitarian aid. Le **premier** domaine est l'aide humanitaire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1310936) - The **first** component (an..3) Le **premier** élément (an..3) ([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 5367595) ## abord Used about 15 813 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 79 · literary ≈ 41 · biblical ≈ 24 · parliamentary ≈ 7 795 · UN documents ≈ 7 875). - Let me speak to him **first**. Laisse-moi d'**abord** lui parler. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3906873](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3906873) [\#11888281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11888281)) - It was **first** an alphabet. Elle fut d'**abord** alphabet. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2574) - Let them also **first** be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless. Qu’on les éprouve d’**abord**, et qu’ils exercent ensuite leur ministère, s’ils sont sans reproche. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TI 3:10) - I will **first** turn to Mr Popa. Je me tourne d'**abord** vers Nicolae Popa. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1268307) - **First**, according to the report, chiefly title holders represented their extended family and she would like to know who was included in that group. Tout d ' **abord**, les détenteurs du titre de chef représentent leur famille élargie et elle voudrait savoir qui fait partie de ce groupe. ([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 13461859) ## fois Used about 5 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5). - The **first** two or three times that he turned round he saw nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat reassured. Les deux ou trois premières **fois** qu'il se retourna, il ne vit rien, le silence était profond, il continua sa marche un peu rassuré. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9737) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I had stage fright at **first**, but I got over it quickly. Au début, j'avais le trac, mais je l'ai rapidement surmonté. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#243977](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/243977) [\#1451446](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1451446)) - Do you remember the day when you and I **first** met? Te souviens-tu du jour où l'on s'est rencontré ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#71214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/71214) [\#7731108](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7731108)) - **First** of all, you have to read this book. Pour commencer, tu dois lire ce livre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and phil77 · checked, community translation · [\#32815](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/32815) [\#900666](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/900666)) ## 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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