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# présent — French to English

How French *présent* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: présent (496 124), présente (341 421), présentes (30 463), présents (28 837). By style: everyday 517 · literary 40 · biblical 168 · parliamentary 35 513 · legal and administrative 366 565 · UN documents 494 042.

## present

Used about 273 637 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 212 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 44 · parliamentary ≈ 7 584 · legal and administrative ≈ 49 639 · UN documents ≈ 216 143). Meaning: [present in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/present/).

- Nous y étions **présents**.
  We were **present** there.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11234673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11234673) [\#11234680](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11234680))

- --**Présent**! cria une voix joyeuse.
  “**Present**!” shouted a joyous voice.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25965)

- Le **présent** passa devant lui; et il resta cette nuit-là dans le camp.
  So the **present** passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 32:21)

- De plus, des ONG sont **présentes** dans une partie du territoire.
  NGOs are also **present** in part of the country.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2050250)

- Nombre maximal de navires **présents** à tout moment
  Maximum number of vessels **present** at any time
  ([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 2098278)

## now

Used about 14 257 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 32 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 6 474 · UN documents ≈ 7 719). Meaning: [now in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/now/).

- Je suis en sécurité à **présent**.
  I'm safe **now**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2248239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2248239) [\#11942075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11942075))

- Je vous attends à **présent**.
  I shall wait for you **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 30553)

- Il offrit le **présent** à Églon, roi de Moab: or Églon était un homme très gras.
  He offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. **Now** Eglon was a very fat man.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 3:17)

- Passons à **présent** à l'aspect négatif.
  **Now** for the bad news.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2023383)

- L &apos; Instance se félicite que l &apos; Angola dispose à **présent** d &apos; un système d &apos; exportation de diamants vérifiable.
  The Mechanism is satisfied that Angola **now** has a verifiable diamond export system.
  ([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 9590862)

## More sentences

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

- Ordener pressa religieusement sur ses lèvres ce **présent** de sa bien-aimée.
  Ordener religiously pressed this gift from his beloved against his lips.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#3225982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3225982) [\#3196422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3196422))

- J'ai lu une centaine de livres jusqu'à **présent**.
  I've read about a hundred books so far.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#5043065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5043065) [\#5913002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5913002))

- Combien d'argent tu t'es fait jusqu’à **présent** ?
  How much money have you made so far?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dolomitt and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5851341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5851341) [\#8274072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8274072))

## 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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