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# première — French to English

How French *première* 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: première (288 510), premières (45 131). By style: everyday 801 · literary 93 · biblical 102 · parliamentary 24 725 · legal and administrative 33 951 · UN documents 273 969.

## first

Used about 209 034 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 634 · literary ≈ 83 · biblical ≈ 76 · parliamentary ≈ 14 680 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 622 · UN documents ≈ 176 938). Meaning: [first in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/first/).

- Tu n'es pas la **première**.
  You're not the **first**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3824674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3824674) [\#4857268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4857268))

- C'était la **première** fois.
  It was for the **first** time.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8288)

- Ainsi fut Daniel jusqu’à la **première** année du roi Cyrus.
  Daniel continued even to the **first** year of King Cyrus.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 1:21)

- La **première** est celle des enveloppes nationales.
  The **first** issue is the national envelopes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1005417)

- Le paragraphe 3, **première** phrase:
  The **first** sentence of paragraph 3:
  ([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 1519343)

## raw

Used about 24 282 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 4 378 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 488 · UN documents ≈ 11 415). Meaning: [raw in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/raw/).

- Nous voulons à l'avenir réutiliser les matières **premières**.
  We want to reuse **raw** materials in future.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 401956)

- Pour les matières **premières** en peau visées ci-après:
  For the hide **raw** materials as covered below:
  ([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 4486455)

- La sécurité énergétique et l &apos; accès aux matières **premières**
  Energy security and access to **raw** materials
  ([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 25356677)

- L'ouzbékistan se spécialise dans l'exportation de matières **premières**.
  Uzbekistan specializes in exporting **raw** materials.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1794586)

- a été produite selon un procédé garantissant que les matières **premières**:
  has been produced by a process ensuring that the **raw** material is:
  ([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 1718264)

## materials

Used about 4 360 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 92 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 415 · UN documents ≈ 2 854).

- Le Japon manque de matières **premières**.
  Japan is lacking in raw **materials**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#281484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281484) [\#331058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/331058))

- Identification indélébile des matières **premières** des aliments pour animaux.
  Indelible identification of feed **materials**.
  ([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 1526301)

- 76. Les nouvelles techniques agricoles devraient être accessibles et écologiquement viables, et utiliser de préférence les matières **premières** locales.
  76. New agricultural technologies should be accessible, environmentally appropriate and preferably utilize local **materials**.
  ([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 2015223)

- Les approvisionnements en matières **premières** sont retardés.
  Supplies of raw **materials** are delayed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13406201](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406201) [\#13406199](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13406199))

- est accompagné d'une liste des noms des matières **premières** pour aliments des animaux issues de l'agriculture biologique;
  accompanied by a list of names of feed **materials** from the organic production method;
  ([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 1596938)

## More sentences

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

- Le véhicule roulant à vive allure glissa et s'enfonça tête la **première** dans l'arrière d'un camion avant que son conducteur n'ait pu dire Jack Robinson.
  The speeding vehicle skidded and crashed head-on into the rear-end of a truck before the driver could say Jack Robinson.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Erwan29200 and francaisr0wlet · checked, community translation · [\#28130](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28130) [\#749517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/749517))

- Surtout ne lui achète rien : ce mec est un arnaqueur de **première** !
  Above all, don't buy anything from him: he's a blithering swindler.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#693745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/693745) [\#693739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/693739))

- La **première** guerre mondiale s'était terminée juste quinze ans auparavant.
  World War One had ended just 15 years earlier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and Source\_VOA · checked, community translation · [\#804234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804234) [\#1640236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1640236))

## 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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