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Elle **commence** à parler. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jimkillock and TheSnail · checked, community translation · [\#8783968](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8783968) [\#10756081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10756081)) - “Before we **start** on a second fishing excursion, suppose we complete the first?” --Avant d'en **commencer** une seconde, si nous terminions la première? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2235) - That **starts** with the young people. Cela **commence** avec les jeunes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 135039) - The code **starts** at 400-010-9. La numérotation **commence** à 400-010-9. ([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 1083381) - It **starts** at paragraph 37. Cette section **commence** au paragraphe 37. ([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 2535099) ## début Used about 8 247 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 799 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 902 · UN documents ≈ 4 509). - How long to go before the game **starts**? Combien de temps avant le **début** du jeu? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8808882](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8808882) [\#8809747](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8809747)) - And after all it is only to make a beginning, a way of saving a few thousand francs to **start** fair with afterward.” D'ailleurs, ce n'est qu'un **début**, un moyen d'amasser quelques milliers de francs pour m'établir ensuite. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2141) - But it was a merely a **start**. Mais ce n'était qu'un **début**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1790002) - Delivery **start** date and time Date et heure de **début** de livraison ([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 4245859) - The circulation must be done by the delegation concerned before the meeting **starts**. Elle doit en assurer elle-même la distribution avant le **début** de la séance. ([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 2201765) ## démarrage Used about 4 042 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 036 · UN documents ≈ 3 006). - **Start**-up and shut-down period Périodes de **démarrage** et d'arrêt ([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 4191700) - Wact,hot is the actual cycle work on the hot **start** test, kWh Wact,hot est le travail effectif au cours du cycle pendant l ' essai de **démarrage** à chaud, en kWh ([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 20946689) - The hot **start** cycle may then be rerun. Le cycle de **démarrage** à chaud peut alors être recommencé. ([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 2044915) - The **start**-up of the mission in the Sudan and the expansion of MONUC would total in the region of $900 million. Le **démarrage** de la mission au Soudan et l ' expansion de la MONUC devraient coûter quelque 900 millions de dollars au total. ([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 11542350) - is the fuel mass of the cold **start** test, g/test correspond à la masse de carburant de l’essai en cas de **démarrage** à froid, en g/essai; ([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 5514684) ## avant Used about 2 083 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 666 · legal and administrative ≈ 415 · UN documents ≈ 1 002). - The steamer Ellenora, did not **start** until night. Le steamer l'Ellenora, ne partait pas **avant** la nuit. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 701) - On the subject of young people, research has shown that 90% of smokers **start** smoking as children, as under 18s. Au sujet des jeunes, la recherche montre que 90 % des fumeurs ont commencé à fumer **avant** l'âge de 18 ans. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 981772) - A train running forecast can also be sent before the train **starts** running. Une prévision de circulation d’un train peut également être envoyée **avant** le départ du train. ([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 5406741) - It does not partake in political negotiations to **start** or to stop investigations or proceedings. Elle ne participe pas à des négociations politiques **avant** de décider d ' ouvrir ou de suspendre une enquête ou une procédure. ([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 18265593) - I am firmly of the opinion that we must set a date before the end of 2003 for the **start** of Turkey's accession process. Je suis persuadé qu'**avant** la fin de 2003, il nous faudra fixer une date pour entamer le processus de son entrée dans l'Union. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 387687) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Where did you **start** learning to speak Dutch? Où as-tu commencé à apprendre à parler néerlandais ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LanguageExpert and tras · checked, community translation · [\#1837950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1837950) [\#7547277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7547277)) - When do you **start** writing your bibliography? Quand commences-tu à écrire ta bibliographie ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#14057885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14057885) [\#14057886](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14057886)) - Don't **start** over, please. Ne recommence pas, s’il te plaît. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kaiperkins271 and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#6861546](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6861546) [\#6850221](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6850221)) ## 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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