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# depuis — French to English

How French *depuis* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: depuis (352 950). By style: everyday 1 718 · literary 146 · biblical 382 · parliamentary 25 803 · legal and administrative 19 846 · UN documents 305 055.

## since

Used about 227 872 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 501 · literary ≈ 52 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 12 364 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 577 · UN documents ≈ 203 370). Meaning: [since in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/since/).

- Il pleut **depuis** hier.
  It's been raining **since** yesterday.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#10276636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10276636) [\#890853](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/890853))

- Dix mois s'étaient écoulés **depuis** «la bonne farce».
  Ten months had elapsed **since** the “pretty farce.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3310)

- Ne sais-tu pas que, de tout temps, **Depuis** que l’homme a été placé sur la terre,
  Don’t you know this from old time, **since** man was placed on earth,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 20:4)

- **Depuis** le scrutin, les violences n'ont jamais cessé.
  **Since** the election, the violence has continued unabated.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1114197)

- Or, cela ne se fait que **depuis** 2001.
  This has only been done **since** 2001.
  ([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 2296086)

## there

Used about 25 466 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 9 · UN documents ≈ 25 421). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- Il y a eu un avocat dans la famille **depuis** des générations.
  **There**'s been a lawyer in the family for generations.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Source\_Benedict\_1921 · checked, community translation · [\#847169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/847169) [\#1035511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1035511))

- J'aurais dû être fait, **depuis** longtemps, au tempérament de mon oncle, et pourtant cet homme-là m'étonnait toujours.
  I ought by this time to have been quite accustomed to my uncle's ways; yet **there** was always something fresh about him to astonish me.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3249)

- Enfin une petite communauté de Kurdes yézidis habite le pays **depuis** quelques siècles.
  Lastly, **there** has been a small community of Yezidi Kurds living in the country for some centuries.
  ([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 10744406)

- En dérangeant les vêtements de Marius, il avait trouvé dans les poches deux choses, le pain qui y était oublié **depuis** la veille, et le portefeuille de Marius.
  On disarranging Marius’ garments, he had found two things in his pockets, the roll which had been forgotten **there** on the preceding evening, and Marius’ pocketbook.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27848)

- **Depuis**, on a enregistré des menaces répétées à l &apos; encontre du personnel recruté sur le terrain et il y a eu un mort.
  **There** have been repeated subsequent threats to locally recruited staff and one death.
  ([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 11437832)

## years

Used about 20 834 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 358 · literary ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 56 · parliamentary ≈ 6 451 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 240 · UN documents ≈ 12 711).

- Il est mort **depuis** cinq ans.
  He died five **years** ago.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#1252602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1252602) [\#129993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129993))

- —Oh! éteint **depuis** cinq cents ans.
  "Oh, yes; more than five hundred **years**."
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 930)

- Là se trouvait un homme malade **depuis** trente-huit ans.
  A certain man was there who had been sick for thirty-eight **years**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 5:5)

- Nous le savons **depuis** trois ans.
  We have known this for three **years**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1207434)

- Apte sans restriction en cas d’absence de crises épileptiques et d’arrêt de la médication **depuis** au moins dix ans
  Fit without restrictions when seizure-free and without medication for at least 10 **years**
  ([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 5130865)

## long

Used about 8 736 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 215 · literary ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 2 150 · UN documents ≈ 6 355). Meaning: [long in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/long/).

- Je le savais **depuis** longtemps.
  I'd known that for a **long** time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11215839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11215839) [\#11229692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11229692))

- **Depuis** quand êtes-vous revenu?
  How **long** have you been back?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31941)

- Cela ne nous était plus arrivé **depuis** très longtemps en matière de services publics.
  In the field of public services, that has not happened for a very **long** time.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1788664)

- Les continents africain et latino-américain attendent **depuis** trop longtemps d &apos; obtenir une représentation permanente.
  The African and Latin American continents have waited too **long** to gain permanent representation.
  ([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 23763347)

- **Depuis** quand t’as ce portable ?
  How **long** have you had that mobile?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10791752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10791752) [\#3596345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3596345))

## t

Used about 266 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 251 · biblical ≈ 16). Meaning: [t in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/t/).

- Je ne l'ai pas vue **depuis** un moment.
  I haven'**t** seen her for a while.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3909768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3909768) [\#13388430](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13388430))

- **Depuis** les jours de Guibea tu as péché, Israël! Là ils restèrent debout, La guerre contre les méchants ne les atteignit pas à Guibea.
  “Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn’**t** overtake them in Gibeah.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HOS 10:9)

- On ne vous a pas vu **depuis** longtemps.
  We haven'**t** seen you in a while.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Guilmaeire and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1532995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1532995) [\#1533026](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1533026))

- Par cupidité, ils trafiqueront de vous au moyen de paroles trompeuses, eux que menace **depuis** longtemps la condamnation, et dont la ruine ne sommeille point.
  In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’**t** linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2PE 2:3)

- Je ne me suis pas lavé **depuis** trois jours.
  I haven'**t** showered in three days.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2360311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2360311) [\#8008206](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8008206))

## More sentences

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

- Son frère a disparu **depuis** un moment.
  His brother has been missing for a while now.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CH · checked, community translation · [\#1254491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1254491) [\#9823486](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9823486))

- J'attends le bus **depuis** une demi-heure.
  I've been waiting for the bus for half an hour.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and krzysiek · checked, community translation · [\#5201410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5201410) [\#7063943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7063943))

- C'est mon petit ami **depuis** deux mois.
  He's been my boyfriend for two months.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12669585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12669585) [\#4573629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4573629))

## 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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