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Meaning: [first in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/first/). - Nous étions ici les **premières**. We were here **first**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1893689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1893689) [\#4579569](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4579569)) - Quand il eut écrit les **premières** lignes qui ne sont que des formules toujours les mêmes, il leva les yeux: When he had written the **first** lines, which are formulas that never vary, he raised his eyes:— ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17914) - Les vaches décharnées et laides mangèrent les sept **premières** vaches qui étaient grasses. The thin and ugly cattle ate up the **first** seven fat cattle; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 41:20) - Cette suggestion ne concerne que les trois **premières** années d’activité d’une PME nouvellement créée. The suggestion concerns only **first** 3 years of the activity of a newly established SME. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 712558) - Les deux **premières** colonnes de la liste décrivent le produit obtenu. The **first** two columns in the list describe the product obtained. ([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 26701) ## raw Used about 8 624 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 273 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 763 · UN documents ≈ 2 588). 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 ' 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 2 605 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 299 · UN documents ≈ 1 294). Forms: material, materials. - 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)) - Huiles de poisson à utiliser comme matières **premières** pour aliments des animaux ou en dehors de la chaîne alimentaire animale Fish oil to be used as feed **material** or for purposes outside the feed chain ([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 128099) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Le pain a permis la formation des **premières** sociétés humaines. Bread allowed the formation of early human societies. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6716743](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6716743) [\#6718649](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6718649)) - Les civilisations **premières** apparurent en Mésopotamie. The earliest civilizations arose in Mesopotamia. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1657704](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1657704) [\#1658025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1658025)) - Les marchés à terme des matières **premières** sont devenus hautement spéculatifs. Commodity futures markets have become highly speculative. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cocorico and siggg · checked, community translation · [\#1300780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1300780) [\#750952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/750952)) ## 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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