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Meaning: [former in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/former/). - C'est un de mes **anciens** élèves. He's a **former** pupil of mine. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11982597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11982597) [\#12943477](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12943477)) - Il est fils d'un **ancien** chantre de Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. He is the son of a **former** precentor of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2925) - On ne se souvient pas de ce qui est **ancien**; et ce qui arrivera dans la suite ne laissera pas de souvenir chez ceux qui vivront plus tard. There is no memory of the **former**; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 1:11) - Le chiffre enregistré pour les 15 **anciens** États membres est de loin inférieur; il est de 25%. The figure in the **former** 15 Member States is much lower, at 25%. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 616733) - **Ancien** directeur général: Win Tun. **Former** Managing Director: Win Tun. ([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 2272429) ## old Used about 7 230 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 87 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 36 · parliamentary ≈ 1 768 · legal and administrative ≈ 566 · UN documents ≈ 4 761). Meaning: [old in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/old/). - J'adore les ouvrages **anciens**. I love **old** books. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#5325975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5325975) [\#5558969](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5558969)) - --Lequel? l'**ancien** ou le nouveau? “Which one? the **old** one or the new one?” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30133) - J’ouvre la bouche par des sentences, Je publie la sagesse des temps **anciens**. I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of **old**, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 78:2) - Ils ont soulevé avec moi la question de la ville - l’**ancien** "bourg". They raised with me the problem of the town - the **old** borough. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 530819) - Coût estimé bâtiments **anciens**(a) Estimated cost of **old** buildings (a) ([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 1109813) ## elders Used about 1 188 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 126 · UN documents ≈ 1 058). - Je l'ai entendu des **anciens** autrefois. I heard it from the **elders** long ago. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by anzart and anzart · checked, community translation · [\#12665380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12665380) [\#12665377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12665377)) - Et Moïse se retira au camp, lui et les **anciens** d’Israël. Moses went into the camp, he and the **elders** of Israel. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 11:30) - :: Permettent les réunions des conseils d ' **anciens**; :: Allow for meetings of **elders** councils. ([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 21587273) - Les **anciens** décidèrent de le chasser du village. The **elders** decided to expel him from the village. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#5336039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5336039) [\#8447930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8447930)) - Pour l’avoir possédée, les **anciens** ont obtenu un témoignage favorable. For by this, the **elders** obtained approval. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 11:2) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - J'apprends le grec **ancien**. I'm learning Ancient Greek. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#5780383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5780383) [\#6860778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6860778)) - Tom est l'ami d'un ami d'un **ancien** collègue. Tom is a friend of a friend of a person I used to work with. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CK · checked, community translation · [\#11963167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11963167) [\#11963168](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11963168)) - Le Go est le jeu le plus **ancien**, le plus simple et le plus complexe au monde. Go is the world's oldest, simplest, and most complex game. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10404016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10404016) [\#10404205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10404205)) ## 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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