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# latter — English to French

How English *latter* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: latter (47 218), latters (197). By style: everyday 24 · literary 35 · biblical 39 · parliamentary 2 721 · legal and administrative 6 889 · UN documents 37 707.

## ces

Used about 15 070 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 333 · legal and administrative ≈ 861 · UN documents ≈ 13 869).

- Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the **latter** had escaped.
  Marius comprit, à travers cet argot sinistre, que les gendarmes ou les sergents de ville avaient failli saisir **ces** deux enfants, et que ces enfants s'étaient échappées.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15832)

- Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the **latter** days, for the vision is yet for many days.”
  Je viens maintenant pour te faire connaître ce qui doit arriver à ton peuple dans la suite des temps; car la vision concerne encore **ces** temps-là.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 10:14)

- But the **latter** do not always seek to serve the general interest.
  Mais **ces** derniers ne poursuivent pas toujours l'intérêt général.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 303407)

- It is not known how much they pay for the **latter**.
  Le montant de **ces** derniers n’est pas connu.
  ([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 2019330)

- The frequency of the **latter** is reported to be growing, and in some cases without KFOR involvement.
  Le nombre de **ces** dernières irait croissant et, dans certains cas, sans que la KFOR soit intervenue.
  ([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 9655431)

## dernier

Used about 7 558 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 333 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 148 · UN documents ≈ 6 068).

- Health is above wealth; the **latter** gives less fortune than the former.
  Santé vaut mieux que richesse, des deux ce **dernier** est celui qui rapporte le moins.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Vortarulo and Emci · checked, community translation · [\#238998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238998) [\#2741911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2741911))

- The **latter**, of whom the reader caught but a glimpse at the Gorbeau house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered and plaintive air.
  Ce **dernier**, qu'on n'a pu qu'entrevoir dans le guet-apens Gorbeau, était un jeune gaillard fort rusé et fort adroit, ayant l'air ahuri et plaintif.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18870)

- “It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the **latter** sign.
  S’ils ne te croient pas, dit l’Éternel, et n’écoutent pas la voix du premier signe, ils croiront à la voix du **dernier** signe.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 4:8)

- The **latter** is important for guaranteeing sustainable growth.
  Ce **dernier** est important pour garantir une croissance durable.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1727916)

- In the **latter** case, they shall be reported in this item.
  Dans le **dernier** cas, ces positions seront déclarées dans ce poste.
  ([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 3660606)

## acquis

Used about 2 870 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 2 870).

- Council Decision 1999/439/EC of 17 May 1999 on the conclusion of the Agreement with the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway concerning the **latters**’ association with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis (OJ L 176, 10.7.1999, p. 35).
  Décision 1999/439/CE du Conseil du 17 mai 1999 relative à la conclusion de l’accord avec la République d’Islande et le Royaume de Norvège sur l’association de ces deux États à la mise en œuvre, à l’application et au développement de l’**acquis** de Schengen (JO L 176 du 10.7.1999, p. 35).
  ([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 4466834)

- HAVING REGARD to the Agreement concluded by the Council of the European Union and the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway concerning the **latters**' association with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis \[1\] (‘Association Agreement with Norway’),
  VU l'accord conclu par le Conseil de l'Union européenne, la République d'Islande et le Royaume de Norvège sur l'association de ces deux États à la mise en œuvre, à l'application et au développement de l'**acquis** de Schengen, \[1\] (ci-après «l'accord d'association avec la Norvège»),
  ([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 265967)

- HAVING REGARD to the Agreement concluded by the Council of the European Union and the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway concerning the **latters**' association with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis (‘Association Agreement with Iceland and Norway’),
  VU l'accord conclu par le Conseil de l'Union européenne et la République d'Islande et le Royaume de Norvège sur l'association de ces deux États à la mise en œuvre, à l'application et au développement de l'**acquis** de Schengen (ci-après dénommé l'«accord d'association avec l'Islande et la Norvège»),
  ([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 296564)

- Contributions to administrative costs resulting from the Agreement of 18 May 1999 concluded by the Council of the European Union and the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway concerning the **latters**’ association with the implementation, application and development of the Schengen acquis (OJ L 176, 10.7.1999, p. 36), and in particular Article 12 of that Agreement.
  Contributions aux frais administratifs découlant de l’accord du 18 mai 1999 conclu par le Conseil de l’Union européenne, la République d’Islande et le Royaume de Norvège sur l’association de ces derniers à la mise en œuvre, à l’application et au développement de l’**acquis** de Schengen (JO L 176 du 10.7.1999, p. 36), et notamment l’article 12 de cet accord.
  ([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 4465366)

- The Mixed Committee, established pursuant to Article 3 of the Agreement concluded by the Council of the European Union and the Republic of Iceland and the Kingdom of Norway concerning the **latters**' association with the implementation, application, and development of the Schengen acquis, has been informed about the preparation of this Decision in accordance with Article 5 of that Agreement.
  Le comité mixte, institué en vertu de l'article 3 de l'accord conclu par le Conseil de l'Union européenne, la République d'Islande et le Royaume de Norvège sur l'association de ces deux États à la mise en œuvre, à l'application et au développement de l'**acquis** de Schengen, a été informé de la préparation de la présente décision conformément à l'article 5 dudit accord.
  ([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 4539196)

## More sentences

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

- The **latter** half of the drama was a little dull.
  La dernière partie du drame était un peu ennuyeuse.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#46889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/46889) [\#919262](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/919262))

- The French and the English like drinking, but the **latter** prefer beer whereas the former go in for red wine.
  Les Français et les Anglais aiment bien boire, mais ceux-ci préfèrent la bière tandis que ceux-là ont un faible pour le vin rouge.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2142595](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2142595) [\#2142592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2142592))

- We have freedom of speech and freedom of thought, but the former is exercised much more than the **latter**.
  Nous avons la liberté d'expression et la liberté de pensée, mais la première est beaucoup plus utilisée que la seconde.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12912409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12912409) [\#12912635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12912635))

## 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/).

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