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# dernière — French to English

How French *dernière* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: dernière (103 039), dernières (114 061). By style: everyday 1 443 · literary 54 · biblical 31 · parliamentary 25 916 · legal and administrative 16 654 · UN documents 173 002.

## last

Used about 75 379 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 932 · literary ≈ 44 · biblical ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 12 688 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 633 · UN documents ≈ 54 063). Meaning: [last in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/last/).

- Nous sommes les **dernières**.
  We're the **last**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2240708](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2240708) [\#4801865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4801865))

- «Une **dernière** fois, veux-tu être à moi?»
  “For the **last** time, will you be mine?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8352)

- Je te le dis, tu ne sortiras pas de là que tu n’aies payé jusqu’à la **dernière** pite.
  I tell you, you will by no means get out of there until you have paid the very **last** penny.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 12:59)

- Elle fut particulièrement intense au cours des **dernières** semaines.
  It has been particularly active over the **last** few weeks.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1789129)

- 24 (± 1) premières et 25 **dernières** secondes
  First 24 (±1) s and **last** 25 s
  ([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 422034)

## years

Used about 45 785 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 75 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 700 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 561 · UN documents ≈ 41 448). Forms: year, years.

- Il vécut tranquillement les **dernières** années de sa vie.
  He lived quietly in the latter **years** of his life.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#296211](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/296211) [\#8540556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8540556))

- C’est un avis que je donne là-dessus, car cela vous convient, à vous qui non seulement avez commencé à agir, mais qui en avez eu la volonté dès l’année **dernière**.
  I give advice in this: it is expedient for you who were the first to start a **year** ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 8:10)

- L'inflation moyenne dans la zone euro au cours de près des douze **dernières** années s'élève en effet à 1,97 %.
  Indeed, euro area average inflation over the past almost 12 **years** stands at 1.97%.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1433227)

- Visas Schengen délivrés au cours des trois **dernières** années
  Schengen visas issued during the past three **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 1890211)

- La question de l &apos; égalité des sexes a enregistré une avancée au cours des 15 **dernières** années.
  Gender equality has also improved during the past 15 **years**.
  ([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 29901751)

## past

Used about 13 366 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 210 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 540 · UN documents ≈ 12 615). Meaning: [past in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/past/).

- J'ai été très seul ces deux **dernières** semaines.
  I've been really lonely these **past** two weeks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4875752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4875752) [\#5411135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5411135))

- Je connais, en effet, votre bonne volonté, dont je me glorifie pour vous auprès des Macédoniens, en déclarant que l’Achaïe est prête depuis l’année **dernière**; et ce zèle de votre part a stimulé le plus grand nombre.
  for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the **past** year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 9:2)

- Ces **dernières** semaines, nous avons évoqué la catastrophe de l'Erika.
  We have been discussing the Erika disaster here for the **past** couple of weeks.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 21388)

- Les États-Unis, pour leur part, au cours de la **dernière** décennie, ont décuplé leurs versements d &apos; APD.
  The United States had increased its ODA disbursements tenfold in the **past** decade.
  ([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 24457272)

- J'ai été très seule ces deux **dernières** semaines.
  I've been really lonely these **past** two weeks.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4875752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4875752) [\#5411137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5411137))

## recent

Used about 12 521 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 4 859 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 255 · UN documents ≈ 5 406). Meaning: [recent in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/recent/).

- Monsieur le Président, ces **dernières** années, la Chine a connu une énorme croissance économique.
  Mr President, in **recent** years, China has seen huge economic growth.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1314099)

- L’APPI a été réformée ces **dernières** années.
  The APPI has been reformed in **recent** 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 4802503)

- Rappelant ses précédentes résolutions sur ce sujet, notamment la **dernière** résolution (No 5470) en date du 29 mars 1995,
  Recalling its previous resolutions on this subject, the most **recent** being resolution 5470 of 29 March 1995,
  ([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 2179384)

- Cette approche, cette coopération, a permis des améliorations sensibles ces **dernières** années.
  This approach - this cooperation - has led to demonstrable improvements over **recent** years.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1312674)

- Les moyens de communication ont considérablement évolué ces **dernières** années.
  Means of communication have evolved considerably in **recent** 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 664145)

## over

Used about 4 144 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 540 · UN documents ≈ 3 604). Meaning: [over in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/over/).

- La réponse aux événements de ces **dernières** semaines, Madame Kroes et Monsieur Barroso, ne consiste pas à créer des champions européens.
  The answer to what has happened **over** the past weeks, Mrs Kroes and Mr Barroso, is not European champions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 788692)

- Ces **dernières** sont également allées jusque dans le Sud-Kivu où elles représentent 348 000 personnes au total.
  Internally displaced persons have also spilled **over** into South Kivu, bringing the total to 348,000.
  ([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 19523997)

- À cet égard, l'analyse des évolutions monétaires a également apporté une assistance utile à la politique monétaire de la BCE l'année **dernière**.
  In this respect, the analysis of monetary developments has provided useful guidance to the ECB's monetary policy also **over** the past year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 344398)

- Si un tel point est investi par une autre partie, dans la plupart des cas cette **dernière** en assurera la garde ou le détruira.
  If they are **over**-run they would then, in most circumstances be guarded by the other armed party or destroyed.
  ([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 15078816)

## two

Used about 541 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 540). Meaning: [two in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/two/).

- Tryphon n'enregistre point ces deux **dernières** trouvailles, attendu que Tryphon vivait au douzième siècle et qu'il ne semble point que le diable ait eu l'esprit d'inventer la poudre avant Roger Bacon et les cartes avant Charles VI.
  Tryphon does not record these **two** finds, since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon’s time, and cards before the time of Charles VI.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7840)

- Cette affaire a été longuement discutée lors de l'avant-**dernière** réunion de la Conférence des présidents à Strasbourg.
  The issue was discussed at some length in the Conference of Presidents in Strasbourg, **two** meetings ago.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 427093)

- Les deux **dernières** réussites dont on chante les louanges sont l’Inde et la Chine, dont aucune n’a suivi leurs prescriptions.
  The **two** latest much-lauded success stories are India and China, neither of which has followed their prescriptions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 645349)

## More sentences

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

- Lorsque le fidèle confident de la personne qui a mené une prise de contrôle hostile de la société a trahi cette **dernière**, cela a été une sorte de justice rétributive.
  When the trusted confidant of the person who conducted a hostile takeover of the company betrayed him, it was a sort of retributive justice.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#25720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25720) [\#9207071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9207071))

- Je n'ai pas encore lu la **dernière** page de ce roman.
  I haven't read the final page of the novel yet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hirymnak and CK · checked, community translation · [\#321688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/321688) [\#135177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135177))

- J'écoute la **dernière** chanson de Björk.
  I'm listening to Björk's latest song.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and kebukebu · checked, community translation · [\#516616](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/516616) [\#545712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/545712))

## 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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