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# maintenant — French to English

How French *maintenant* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: maintenant (87 732). By style: everyday 2 481 · literary 106 · biblical 456 · parliamentary 19 050 · legal and administrative 1 171 · UN documents 64 468.

## now

Used about 71 546 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 429 · literary ≈ 93 · biblical ≈ 428 · parliamentary ≈ 15 875 · legal and administrative ≈ 342 · UN documents ≈ 52 380). Meaning: [now in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/now/).

- Tu es marié **maintenant**.
  You're married **now**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rockaround and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2548444](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2548444) [\#7793127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7793127))

- --Où demeure-t-il **maintenant**?
  “Where is he living **now**?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15550)

- **Maintenant** donc il y a plusieurs membres, et un seul corps.
  But **now** they are many members, but one body.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 12:20)

- Il faut agir **maintenant**.
  Action is needed **now**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 938994)

- (**maintenant** Bayer CropScience AG) concernant le thiaclopride.
  (**now** Bayer CropScience AG) concerning thiacloprid.
  ([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 429035)

## More sentences

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

- Je vis **maintenant** en Suisse.
  I currently live in Switzerland.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#12219841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12219841) [\#12354843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12354843))

- Que le nom de l’Éternel soit béni, Dès **maintenant** et à jamais!
  Blessed be the LORD’s name, from this time forward and forever more.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 113:2)

- Vous n’agirez donc pas comme nous le faisons **maintenant** ici, où chacun fait ce qui lui semble bon,
  You shall not do all the things that we do here today, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 12:8)

## 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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