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# années — French to English

How French *années* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: années (240 583). By style: everyday 517 · literary 20 · biblical 107 · parliamentary 25 054 · legal and administrative 13 613 · UN documents 201 272.

## years

Used about 207 913 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 431 · literary ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 100 · parliamentary ≈ 22 966 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 479 · UN documents ≈ 171 920).

- De nombreuses **années** se sont écoulées.
  Many **years** went by.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and marcelostockle · checked, community translation · [\#278059](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/278059) [\#7115699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7115699))

- **Années** rudes; difficiles, les unes à traverser, les autres à gravir.
  Hard **years**; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to climb.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14817)

- 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)

- **Années** 1980-2008: première transmission en 2009
  **Years** 1980-2008: first transmission in 2009
  ([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 1319145)

## last

Used about 4 194 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 4 193). 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)

## recent

Used about 522 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 522). Meaning: [recent in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/recent/).

- Ces dernières **années**, elle a adopté des politiques visant à utiliser les dépenses et les mesures incitatives proposées par l'État pour stimuler le secteur privé.
  Its policies in the **recent** past have focused upon using government spending and incentives to help stimulate the private sector.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1365561)

## many

Used about 1 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1). Meaning: [many in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/many/).

- Ce couvent, qui en 1824 existait depuis longues **années** déjà petite rue Picpus, était une communauté de bernardines de l'obédience de Martin Verga.
  This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for **many** a long year in the Rue Petit-Picpus, was a community of Bernardines of the obedience of Martin Verga.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10358)

## More sentences

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

- 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))

- C'est dans les **années** 20 qu'un tremblement de terre détruisit Tokyo.
  It was in the 1920s that a big earthquake destroyed Tokyo.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#275840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/275840) [\#129181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129181))

## Grammar

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