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# past — English to French

How English *past* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: past (116 329), pasts (23). By style: everyday 369 · literary 49 · biblical 46 · parliamentary 10 322 · legal and administrative 4 661 · UN documents 100 905.

## dernières

Used about 30 903 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 508 · legal and administrative ≈ 285 · UN documents ≈ 30 094).

- We've achieved a lot in the **past** three years.
  Nous avons accompli beaucoup de choses au cours des trois **dernières** années.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#5621893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5621893) [\#5622502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5622502))

- The Lamfalussy procedure, which we have all worked hard to develop over the **past** few years, works.
  La procédure Lamfalussy, sur le développement de laquelle nous avons tous travaillé très dur ces **dernières** années, fonctionne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 829806)

- Public consumption has remained at a subdued level during the **past** three years.
  La consommation publique est demeurée léthargique au cours des trois **dernières** années.
  ([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 5650475)

- Over the **past** years CCF has experienced an increase in the populations of young and female offenders.
  101. Le nombre de jeunes et de femmes placés dans le Centre a augmenté ces **dernières** années.
  ([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 20355149)

- Even though I have studied English at school for the **past** six years, I'm still not good at speaking it.
  Bien qu'ayant étudié l'anglais à l'école ces six **dernières** années, je ne le parle toujours pas bien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#253490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/253490) [\#8328222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8328222))

## passé

Used about 21 100 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 169 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 5 415 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 332 · UN documents ≈ 14 162).

- He walked **past** the house.
  Il est **passé** devant la maison.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#290597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/290597) [\#7550708](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7550708))

- This spectre, this **past**, is given to falsifying its own passport.
  Ce revenant, le **passé**, est sujet à falsifier son passeport.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10869)

- For behold, the winter is **past**. The rain is over and gone.
  Car voici, l’hiver est **passé**; La pluie a cessé, elle s’en est allée.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · SOL 2:11)

- Europe is now a thing of the **past**.
  L’Europe appartient aujourd’hui au **passé**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 766108)

- The process has started in the **past** and is still active.
  Le processus a débuté dans le **passé** et est encore actif.
  ([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 3050288)

## cours

Used about 11 517 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 508 · legal and administrative ≈ 380 · UN documents ≈ 10 622).

- Have you had a persistent cough within the **past** few days?
  As-tu eu une toux persistante au **cours** des derniers jours ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9849458](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9849458) [\#9965388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9965388))

- The Estonia tragedy was only one of many ferry disasters in the **past** decade.
  La tragédie de l'Estonia ne fut, au **cours** de la dernière décennie, qu'un des nombreux désastres à bord de ferries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1892098)

- Occurrence of an accident at home in the **past** 12 months
  Survenue d'un accident domestique au **cours** des 12 derniers mois
  ([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 4596366)

- Evolution of ECLAC extrabudgetary actual expenditure during the **past** three biennia
  Évolution des dépenses extrabudgétaires effectives au **cours** des trois derniers exercices biennaux
  ([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 8619990)

- Over the **past** few months, the European Union has repeatedly called on the Sudanese Government to cooperate unconditionally with the ICC.
  Au **cours** des derniers mois, l'Union européenne a plusieurs fois appelé le gouvernement du Soudan à coopérer sans conditions avec la CPI.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1088133)

## années

Used about 5 406 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 95 · UN documents ≈ 5 311).

- The Finnish NCA confirmed that over the **past** few years peat has been facing an increasing competitive pressure from wood \[17\].
  L'ANC finlandaise a confirmé que depuis quelques **années**, la tourbe était soumise à la pression concurrentielle croissante du bois \[17\].
  ([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 4143037)

- JS1 indicated that such bias also affected LGBT persons and Jews in the **pasts** few years.
  Les auteurs de la communication conjointe no 1 précisent que les LGBT et les Juifs se heurtent aussi à ce genre de discrimination depuis quelques **années**.
  ([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 24050681)

- Jurisdictions that prosecute cartels criminally include Australia, Brazil, Canada, the United Kingdom and, for the **past** several decades, the United States.
  Parmi les juridictions qui poursuivent les ententes au pénal figurent l &apos; Australie, le Brésil, le Canada, le Royaume-Uni et, depuis quelques dizaines d &apos; **années**, les États-Unis.
  ([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 23334050)

- Foreigners are mostly interested, as in **past** years, in specific retraining courses, i.e. courses that are focused on specific work activities as required by employers.
  Comme observé au cours des **années** précédentes, les étrangers sont surtout intéressés par des stages de reconversion focalisés sur des spécialités professionnelles demandées par les employeurs.
  ([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 29475229)

## More sentences

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

- "You'll never get **past** the guards." "I'll take my chances."
  « Vous ne parviendrez jamais à passer les gardes. » « Je tenterai ma chance. »
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#1858653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1858653) [\#11436154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11436154))

- The bullet train came roaring **past**.
  Le train à grande vitesse passa en rugissant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by beauzavier and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#460328](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/460328) [\#1419506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1419506))

- It happened at a quarter **past** eleven.
  Ça s'est déroulé à onze heures et quart.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#42838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42838) [\#799555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/799555))

## 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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