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Meaning: [when in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/when/). - Rapporte-le **lorsque** tu as fini. Bring it back **when** you're done. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1774338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1774338) [\#1776135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1776135)) - **Lorsque** le roi-poète, Uçaf Uddaul, célèbre les charmes de la reine d'Ahméhnagara, il s'exprime ainsi: **When** the poet-king, Ucaf Uddaul, celebrates the charms of the queen of Ahmehnagara, he speaks thus: ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 979) - Le soleil se levait sur la terre, **lorsque** Lot entra dans Tsoar. The sun had risen on the earth **when** Lot came to Zoar. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 19:23) - La semaine passée, **lorsque** je l'ai indiqué personnellement, je n'ai obtenu aucune réponse. Last week, **when** I personally mentioned this, I did not receive an answer. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1026774) - **Lorsque** le conducteur a désactivé l’ESC; **When** the driver has disabled ESC; ([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 5472829) ## where Used about 47 949 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 162 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 173 · UN documents ≈ 18 612). Meaning: [where in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/where/). - Après une bonne promenade, **lorsque** je rentrai dans la maison de M. Fridriksson, mon oncle s'y trouvait déjà en compagnie de son hôte. After a good walk I returned to M. Fridrikssen's house, **where** I found my uncle already in his host's company. ([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 868) - **Lorsque** le SPG fonctionne, un pays peut gravir un nouvel échelon relationnel avec l'UE. **Where** the GSP is a success, a country may graduate to a new relationship with the EU. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 879667) - **lorsque** la BCN concernée le demande, les données relatives au champ 7 sont déclarées. data for field 7, **where** requested by the relevant NCB, are reported. ([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 2715595) - Même **lorsque** les services sont maintenus, toutefois, la qualité de l ' éducation en souffre. Even **where** services are maintained, however, education will be of lower quality. ([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 2396843) - Ensuite, les institutions intermédiaires devraient être sélectionnées de façon ouverte et transparente, par la voie d'appel d'offres **lorsque** cela est possible. Next, the intermediary institutions should be selected in an open and transparent manner, using competitive tender **where** feasible. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1826525) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Le lion s'est mis à rugir **lorsque** nous nous sommes approchés. The lion began to roar as we approached. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#247237](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/247237) [\#11260929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11260929)) - On a vraiment besoin de parler exactement comme un natif que **lorsque** l'on veut devenir un espion. You only really need to sound exactly like a native speaker if you want to become a spy. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#954786](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/954786) [\#4220314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4220314)) - **Lorsque** la mort survient à la maison, quiconque découvre le corps devrait contacter le médecin traitant. If death occurs at home, whoever discovers the body should contact the family doctor. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and vvv123 · checked, community translation · [\#3574379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3574379) [\#6851468](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6851468)) ## 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. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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