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Meaning: [first in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/first/). - Quatre de mes chants de Noël préférés sont « Silent Night », « Joy to the World », « The **First** Noel » et « Away in the Manger ». Four of my favorite Christmas carols are "Silent Night," "Joy to the World," "The **First** Noel" and "Away in the Manger." ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#684586](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/684586) [\#9521638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9521638)) - C'est pourquoi nous devons penser "petit" en premier "think small **first**". That is why we should 'think small **first**' . ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 112472) - **First** Persian Equity Fund **First** Persian Equity Fund ([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 2184800) - **First** part moved to Declaration. **First** part moved to Declaration. ([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 7808245) - Les industries des West Midlands applaudiront le principe du think small **first**. The West Midlands' industries will welcome the Think Small **First** principle. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1173112) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Elle continuera de fournir à la commission des pétitions toutes les informations nécessaires pour un fonctionnement efficace et rencontrera volontiers son souhait d'établir une coopération étroite en ce qui concerne l'initiative « Citizens **First** «. It will continue to give the Committee on Petitions all the information it needs in order to process petitions efficiently, and will be happy to comply with the desire expressed by the Committee on Petitions for close cooperation on the 'Citizens of Europe' initiative. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1723777) - Mais elle est aussi très importante du point de vue économique, tant il est vrai que nous devons conserver la possibilité d'être les **first** movers, d'être à l'avant-garde de la lutte contre le changement climatique. However, it is also very important from the economic point of view, so crucial is it for us still to be capable of being in the vanguard of the fight against climate change, providing it with its impetus. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 870469) - **First** Minister Scottish Parliament pour le remplacement de Mme Irene OLDFATHER is hereby appointed a member of the Committee of the Regions in place of Mrs Irene OLDFATHER ([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 401263) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. 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