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# premiers — French to English

How French *premiers* 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: premiers (38 345). By style: everyday 63 · literary 15 · biblical 72 · parliamentary 2 739 · legal and administrative 3 773 · UN documents 31 683.

## first

Used about 26 383 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 47 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 1 141 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 380 · UN documents ≈ 21 782). Meaning: [first in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/first/).

- J'ai besoin de **premiers** soins.
  I need **first** aid.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CM · checked, community translation · [\#25679](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25679) [\#888805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/888805))

- Les **premiers** symptômes ne tardèrent pas à se manifester.
  The **first** symptoms were not long in making their appearance.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19402)

- Plusieurs des **premiers** seront les derniers, et plusieurs des derniers seront les **premiers**.
  But many will be last who are **first**, and first who are last.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 19:30)

- Ce sont les deux tous **premiers** maillons de la chaîne transfusionnelle.
  These are the very **first** two phases in the blood transfusion chain.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1830708)

- Collecteurs et **premiers** transformateurs»
  Collectors and **first** processors’;
  ([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 975394)

## early

Used about 1 616 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 285 · UN documents ≈ 1 320). Meaning: [early in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/early/).

- Les **premiers** explorateurs se servaient des étoiles pour naviguer.
  **Early** explorers used the stars for navigation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Quonpi and CK · checked, community translation · [\#272150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/272150) [\#645736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/645736))

- Les **premiers** jours s'écoulèrent dans cet éblouissement.
  The **early** days passed in this dazzled state.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9438)

- Je peux parler au nom de mon parti, qui a été dans les **premiers** à se battre pour l' adhésion de l' Autriche à l' Union européenne.
  I can speak for my party, which championed Austria' s membership of the European Union in the **early** days.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 13046)

- Cependant, même au tout début de la vie de l &apos; Organisation, j &apos; ai pu faire état de ses **premiers** pas prometteurs.
  Even at that **early** point in the life of the organization, however, I was able to report that things had gotten off to a sound and successful start.
  ([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 4673609)

- Les **premiers** chrétiens ont été persécutés par l'Empire romain.
  **Early** Christians were persecuted by the Roman Empire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#7078240](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7078240) [\#12444020](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12444020))

## days

Used about 2 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 2).

- Souvenez-vous de ces **premiers** jours, où, après avoir été éclairés, vous avez soutenu un grand combat au milieu des souffrances,
  But remember the former **days**, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 10:32)

## More sentences

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

- Tout nombre pair est la somme de deux nombres **premiers**.
  Every even number is the sum of two primes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dominiko and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#940950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/940950) [\#943520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/943520))

- Tout nombre pair supérieur à deux est la somme de deux nombres **premiers**.
  Every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#8037684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8037684) [\#8038349](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8038349))

- Les **premiers** symptômes de la maladie sont la fièvre et le mal de gorge.
  The initial symptoms of the disease are fever and sore throat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#44314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/44314) [\#8849972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8849972))

## 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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