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Meaning: [then in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/then/). - Vous connaissiez Tom **alors** ? Did you know Tom **then**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by atitarev and CK · checked, community translation · [\#12306745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12306745) [\#13115878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13115878)) - --**Alors** vous connaissez l'Inde? “**Then** you know India?” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 527) - **Alors** auraient passé sur notre âme Les flots impétueux. **Then** the proud waters would have gone over our soul. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 124:5) - Ce n'est qu'**alors** qu'il fonctionnera comme il se doit. Only **then** will it function in the right way. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1352466) - Ce service peut **alors**: The said department may **then** either: ([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 5413456) ## time Used about 13 220 times in the texts (literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 1 098 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 478 · UN documents ≈ 10 617). Meaning: [time in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/time/). - Le marquis de Montcalm était un royaliste **alors** célèbre. The Marquis de Montcalm was at that **time** a celebrated royalist. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2960) - Mais le tabernacle de l’Éternel, construit par Moïse au désert, et l’autel des holocaustes, étaient **alors** sur le haut lieu de Gabaon. For the LORD’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that **time** in the high place at Gibeon. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 21:29) - C'est maintenant et ici, où se décide notre avenir, que vous devez faire preuve de cette fermeté dominant votre politique d'**alors**. Now is the **time** for you to demonstrate the forcefulness of your politics there, here, where our future is being decided. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 343757) - Jahnke pourrait **alors** s'en servir jusqu'à ce que le premier conclue la convention de vente dans les délais légaux. Mr Jahnke could utilise the assets until such **time** as the receiver terminated the agreement within the legal deadline. ([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 589644) - Les témoins ont identifié Miguel Lemus, qui était **alors** membre de la Défense civile. Witnesses identified Miguel Lemus, who was a civil defence member at the **time**. ([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 412894) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - La route est verglacée, **alors** fais attention. The road is icy, so take care. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by SUZIE and CK · checked, community translation · [\#280375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/280375) [\#510961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/510961)) - Vous ne traiteriez pas autrui de cette façon, **alors** ne vous faites pas cela à vous-même. You wouldn't treat someone else like that, so don't do it to yourself. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#12067823](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12067823) [\#12069450](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12069450)) - Je ne disposais pas d'autre moyen de vous contacter **alors** je suis venu ici en personne. I had no other way of contacting you, so I came here in person. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2331700](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2331700) [\#2430056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2430056)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/). ## 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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