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# avance — French to English

How French *avance* 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: avance (31 425), avances (9 927). By style: everyday 246 · literary 11 · biblical 41 · parliamentary 2 167 · legal and administrative 6 920 · UN documents 31 967.

## advance

Used about 29 591 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 97 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 219 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 622 · UN documents ≈ 22 643). Forms: advance, advances. Meaning: [advance in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/advance/).

- Nous le savions d'**avance**.
  We knew that in **advance**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by megamanenm and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4529998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4529998) [\#10790457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10790457))

- Et six mois payés d'**avance**.
  And six months paid in **advance**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3401)

- Je vous remercie d’**avance**.
  Thank you in **advance**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 781769)

- Aide fixée à l’**avance**
  Aid fixed in **advance**
  ([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 1586552)

- I. **Avances** de fonctionnement
  I. Operating fund **advances**
  ([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 26164306)

## loans

Used about 158 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 158).

- Infondée car, par définition, les **avances** remboursables sont remboursées.
  It is unfounded because, by definition, the repayable **loans** are repaid.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 993233)

- Airbus bénéficie du système des **avances** remboursables. Ce système est efficace et sain.
  Airbus benefits from the system of repayable **loans**: it is an appropriate, effective system.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 993197)

- Pas de subventions, mais d'**avances** remboursables qui, comme leur nom l'indique, sont remboursables.
  Instead of subsidies, it gets repayable **loans**, which, as their name suggests, have to be repaid.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 993113)

- Cet arrangement a été inestimable, 13 de ces **avances**, pour un volume total de 12 153 tonnes, ayant été réalisées dans la période s'étalant jusque fin octobre 2002.
  This arrangement has been invaluable, with 13 such **loans** totalling a volume of 12 153 tonnes in the period until the end of October 2002.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 376567)

- La plainte des États-Unis, portée devant l'OMC contre le dispositif européen d'**avances** remboursables en matière d'aéronautique me semble infondée et surprenante.
  The US complaint in the WTO against the European mechanism of repayable **loans** for the aviation sector is, in my view, unfounded and surprising.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 993232)

## paid

Used about 72 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 72).

- Charges payées d'**avance** et intérêts courus réglés, c'est-à-dire intérêts courus achetés avec un titre
  Prepaid expenditure and accrued interest **paid**, i.e. accrued interest purchased with a security
  ([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 4140216)

## payments

Used about 45 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 45).

- Dans ces propositions, la Commission obtient la compétence lui permettant de suspendre les versements d' **avances** aux États membres à la fin de l' exercice budgétaire.
  For example, in these proposals, the Commission is granted the authority to postpone **payments** to Member States at the end of the financial year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2033241)

- Augmentation du préfinancement des Fonds structurels de 2%, ce qui permet donc le versement d'**avances** complémentaires d'un montant total de 6,25 milliards d'euros en 2009.
  Increasing **payments** in instalments from the Structural Funds by 2%, thus allowing for the payment of additional instalments amounting to EUR 6.25 billion in 2009.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1245239)

## More sentences

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

- Voici que s'**avance** l'immobilisme et, nous ne savons pas comment l'arrêter.
  Here comes inaction and we don't know how to stop it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1302650](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1302650) [\#1301021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1301021))

- Si vous ne pouvez pas venir, veuillez me le faire savoir par **avance** !
  If you can't come, please let me know ahead of time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2400254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2400254) [\#2400968](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2400968))

- Nous y serons suffisamment à l'**avance**.
  We'll be there in plenty of time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by KeepYourEyesPeeled and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2953839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2953839) [\#3141023](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3141023))

## Grammar

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