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# until — English to French

How English *until* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: until (137 919). By style: everyday 751 · literary 47 · biblical 516 · parliamentary 9 572 · legal and administrative 29 752 · UN documents 97 281.

## jusqu

Used about 86 591 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 516 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 376 · parliamentary ≈ 4 587 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 314 · UN documents ≈ 58 774).

- Wait **until** six o'clock.
  Attends **jusqu**'à six heures.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#10569618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10569618) [\#1313619](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1313619))

- Thus it proceeded **until** 1830.
  Cela alla ainsi **jusqu**'en 1830.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18022)

- **until** the LORD looks down, and sees from heaven.
  **Jusqu**’à ce que l’Éternel regarde et voie Du haut des cieux;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:50)

- **Until** 1980, vaccination was commonplace in the European Union.
  La vaccination était généralisée dans l' Union européenne **jusqu**' en 1980.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 209042)

- Very early: harvest **until** 31 May
  Très précoce: récolte **jusqu**’au 31 mai
  ([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 2468784)

## More sentences

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

- It was not **until** I came to Japan that I ate sashimi.
  Je n'avais jamais mangé de sashimi avant d'aller au Japon.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and autuno · checked, community translation · [\#249137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249137) [\#7976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7976))

- The athletic meet was put off **until** next week.
  La rencontre d'athlétisme a été reportée d'une semaine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#26544](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/26544) [\#1610733](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1610733))

- You have not experienced Shakespeare **until** you have read him in the original.
  On n'éprouve pas Shakespeare tant qu'on ne l'a pas lu en version originale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2240498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2240498) [\#2252284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2252284))

## 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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