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# année — French to English

How French *année* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: année (291 337), années (240 583). By style: everyday 1 540 · literary 43 · biblical 363 · parliamentary 49 740 · legal and administrative 46 459 · UN documents 433 775.

## year

Used about 421 332 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 396 · literary ≈ 40 · biblical ≈ 352 · parliamentary ≈ 44 041 · legal and administrative ≈ 41 136 · UN documents ≈ 334 368). Forms: year, years. Meaning: [year in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/year/).

- En quelle **année** es-tu né ?
  What **year** were you born?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and blay\_paul · checked, community translation · [\#509620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/509620) [\#528805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/528805))

- Une **année** s'écoula, puis une autre.
  A **year** passed; then another.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3488)

- Vous observez les jours, les mois, les temps et les **années**!
  You observe days, months, seasons, and **years**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 4:10)

- L’Europe connaît le terrorisme depuis de nombreuses **années**.
  Europe has faced terrorism for many **years**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 755654)

- Sur les 10 premiers mois de l'**année**.
  Over the first 10 months of the **year**.
  ([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 2482033)

## last

Used about 4 519 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 4 518). Meaning: [last in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/last/).

- Quelquefois, il regardait avec égarement une espèce d'étroit plateau formé à quelque dix pieds plus bas par des accidents de sculpture, et il demandait au ciel dans le fond de son âme en détresse de pouvoir finir sa vie sur cet espace de deux pieds carrés, dût-elle durer cent **années**.
  Now and then he glanced wildly at a sort of narrow shelf formed, ten feet lower down, by projections of the sculpture, and he prayed heaven, from the depths of his distressed soul, that he might be allowed to finish his life, were it to **last** two centuries, on that space two feet square.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 9012)

- Ces inégalités régionales ont été réduites de près de 30 % dans l &apos; ensemble au cours des 10 dernières **années** mais toutes ne l &apos; ont pas été dans les mêmes proportions.
  9. The trend in regional inequality has been positive in the **last** decade, as the regional differences have narrowed by around 30 per cent.
  ([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 7975372)

## first

Used about 4 518 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 518). Meaning: [first in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/first/).

- Le premier enseignement à tirer des 10 **années** d &apos; application du Nouvel Ordre du jour est sans aucun doute le suivant : conflits et développement sont incompatibles.
  20. The **first** and foremost lesson from the decade-long experience must surely be that conflict and development are mortal enemies.
  ([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 8781607)

## More sentences

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

- Il fut élu roi du bal de fin d'**année**.
  He was voted prom king.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1768911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1768911) [\#1777317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1777317))

- Les voitures les plus récentes coûtent au moins dix mille dollars de plus que les anciennes voitures des **années** 90.
  The newer cars are at least ten thousand dollars more expensive than the earlier ones from the nineties.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and ferra · checked, community translation · [\#3780350](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3780350) [\#10781342](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10781342))

- Cette coupe de cheveux était populaire dans les **années** 90.
  This hairstyle was popular in the 1990s.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#7288523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7288523) [\#8496311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8496311))

## 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/).

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