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# abord — French to English

How French *abord* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: abord (54 657), aborde (6 773), abordes (2), abords (1 394). By style: everyday 244 · literary 48 · biblical 42 · parliamentary 20 135 · legal and administrative 3 372 · UN documents 38 985.

## first

Used about 12 002 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 180 · literary ≈ 41 · biblical ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 3 915 · legal and administrative ≈ 843 · UN documents ≈ 6 990). Meaning: [first in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/first/).

- Faisons d'**abord** ceci.
  Let's do this **first** of all.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#36906](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/36906) [\#1339570](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1339570))

- Elle fut d'**abord** alphabet.
  It was **first** an 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)

- Dans quelque maison que vous entriez, dites d’**abord**: Que la paix soit sur cette maison!
  Into whatever house you enter, **first** say, ‘Peace be to this house.’
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 10:5)

- Tout d'**abord**, les instruments.
  **First** of all, the instruments.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1725103)

- Tout d’**abord**, les images satellites doivent être traitées.
  **First** the satellite images will need to be processed.
  ([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 4770068)

## vicinity

Used about 5 071 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 839 · legal and administrative ≈ 468 · UN documents ≈ 3 764). Meaning: [vicinity in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/vicinity/).

- Non, il y a des milliers d' habitants qui vivent aux **abords** des aéroports et qui subissent des nuisances considérables.
  No, there are thousands of residents living in the **vicinity** of airports who suffer considerable noise pollution.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 30807)

- Manœuvres sur un aérodrome ou aux **abords** d’un aérodrome
  Operation on and in the **vicinity** of an aerodrome
  ([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 2685999)

- :: La systématisation des opérations de sécurisation aux **abords** des établissements.
  Regular security operations in the **vicinity** of schools;
  ([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 27751017)

- Une politique de planification de l'occupation des sols établie par le préfet imposait par ailleurs des restrictions sur toutes les nouvelles activités de construction aux **abords** de l'usine.
  A land use planning policy established by the prefect imposed restrictions on all new construction activities in the **vicinity** of the plant.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 234582)

- lorsque les conditions VMC prévalent aux **abords** de l’aérodrome:
  when VMC prevail in the **vicinity** of the aerodrome:
  ([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 5180502)

## More sentences

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

- Le tennis fut d'**abord** pratiqué en France au treizième siècle.
  Tennis began in France in the thirteenth century.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · [\#39408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/39408) [\#390270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/390270))

- Toutes les grandes personnes ont d'**abord** été des enfants, mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent.
  All grown-ups were once children, but few remember that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10852271](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10852271) [\#9326317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9326317))

- Tom fut d'**abord** surpris quand Mary introduisit Bert dans leur relation de couple.
  Tom was initially surprised when Mary introduced Bert in their couple relationship.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1076990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1076990) [\#1076283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1076283))

## Grammar

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