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# moment — French to English

How French *moment* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: moment (141 285), moments (4 230). By style: everyday 1 423 · literary 298 · biblical 67 · parliamentary 19 172 · legal and administrative 22 255 · UN documents 102 300.

## time

Used about 81 339 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 572 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 6 391 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 518 · UN documents ≈ 61 806). Forms: time, times. Meaning: [time in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/time/).

- Les bons **moments** sont terminés.
  The good **times** are over.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#7587462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7587462) [\#7645939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7645939))

- Elles donnaient par **moments** de petites tapes aux jeunes gens.
  From **time** to time they bestowed little taps on the young men.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2776)

- Depuis ce **moment**, il cherchait une occasion favorable pour livrer Jésus.
  From that **time** he sought opportunity to betray him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 26:16)

- Le **moment** est mal choisi.
  It is not the right **time**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 888769)

- **moments** (jours) du début et de la fin de la période d'étude
  **time** (days) at start and end of study period
  ([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 1537781)

## moment

Used about 24 482 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 325 · literary ≈ 208 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 4 993 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 100 · UN documents ≈ 13 853). Forms: moment, moments. Meaning: [moment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/moment/).

- C'est un **moment** crucial.
  This is a crucial **moment**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#6133039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6133039) [\#8473486](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8473486))

- Il resta un **moment** rêveur.
  He reflected for a **moment**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6252)

- Car nos légères afflictions du **moment** présent produisent pour nous, au-delà de toute mesure, un poids éternel de gloire,
  For our light affliction, which is for the **moment**, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CO 4:17)

- Cela se paie dans les **moments** cruciaux.
  That comes home to roost at critical **moments**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 204572)

- **moment** de flexion de référence maximal \[Nm\]
  maximum reference bending **moment** \[Nm\]
  ([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 5424719)

## when

Used about 6 757 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 2 596 · legal and administrative ≈ 927 · UN documents ≈ 3 197). Meaning: [when in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/when/).

- Juste au **moment** où la chenille pensait que le monde était fini, elle devint papillon.
  Just **when** the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5646976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5646976) [\#5647134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5647134))

- Il se tenait donc depuis quelques **moments**, pensant ou ne pensant pas, appuyé en silence au chambranle sculpté de la cheminée, quand Fleur-de-Lys, se tournant soudain, lui adressa la parole.
  He had remained, therefore, for several minutes, leaning in silence against the carved jamb of the chimney, and thinking or not thinking, **when** Fleur-de-Lys suddenly turned and addressed him.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3661)

- Au **moment** où les visions de la nuit agitent la pensée, Quand les hommes sont livrés à un profond sommeil,
  In thoughts from the visions of the night, **when** deep sleep falls on men,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 4:13)

- Nous discutons du budget 2011 à un **moment** où nous consolidons les budgets publics.
  We are debating the 2011 budget at a time **when** we are consolidating public budgets.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1416730)

- Il convient de définir le **moment** où l'engagement d'importer ou d'exporter est rempli.
  It is necessary to define **when** the undertaking to export or import is fulfilled.
  ([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 1518903)

## More sentences

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

- Nous allons tous mourir à un **moment** ou à un autre.
  We're all going to die at some point.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#12225926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12225926) [\#12225924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12225924))

- C'est tout ce que nous pouvons faire pour le **moment**.
  That's all we can do for now.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2870387](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2870387) [\#7862575](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7862575))

- Je ne vous ai pas vus depuis un **moment**.
  I haven't seen you for a while.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#417014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/417014) [\#1356425](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1356425))

## 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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