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# quand — French to English

How French *quand* 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: quand (60 824). By style: everyday 4 003 · literary 290 · biblical 883 · parliamentary 13 316 · legal and administrative 3 062 · UN documents 39 270.

## when

Used about 34 386 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 669 · literary ≈ 248 · biblical ≈ 533 · parliamentary ≈ 8 323 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 978 · UN documents ≈ 19 635). Meaning: [when in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/when/).

- **Quand** as-tu trouvé ?
  **When** did you find out?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1839626](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1839626) [\#1847490](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1847490))

- **Quand** elle l'apporta, il reprit:
  **When** she brought it he said:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2380)

- **Quand** je dis: Mon pied chancelle! Ta bonté, ô Éternel! Me sert d’appui.
  **When** I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 94:18)

- **Quand** et où s'arrêteront-ils ?
  **When** and where will they stop?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 419853)

- **Quand** l'entreprise a-t-elle été créée?
  **When** has the firm been created?
  ([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 5619639)

## where

Used about 3 951 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 277 · legal and administrative ≈ 383 · UN documents ≈ 3 273). Meaning: [where in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/where/).

- **Quand** il n’y a pas de révélation, le peuple est sans frein; Heureux s’il observe la loi!
  **Where** there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 29:18)

- **Quand** il y a une surveillance européenne, la dynamique nationale s'arrête.
  **Where** there is European supervision, national momentum comes to a standstill.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1484672)

- Une justification doit être fournie **quand** les composés concernés ne sont pas caractérisés.
  A justification shall be provided **where** the compounds involved are not characterised.
  ([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 2902956)

- **Quand** tel est le cas, on peut dire que les dépenses ont été amorties.
  **Where** this has been done, it may be said that these costs have been amortised.
  ([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 9679465)

- **quand** le chômeur a accepté un emploi salarié «permanent» (8) ou exerce une activité non salariée;
  **where** the unemployed person has taken up ‘permanent’ gainful employment (8) or becomes self-employed;
  ([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 540483)

## More sentences

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

- Je me rends compte que je ne suis peut-être pas l'homme le plus séduisant du monde mais j'espère **quand** même que vous envisagerez de sortir avec moi.
  I realize I may not be the most desirable man in the world, but I still hope you'll consider going out with me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#953581](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953581) [\#1406900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1406900))

- S'il te plaît, lève la main **quand** tu as une question !
  If you've got a question, please put your hand up.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#9211608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9211608) [\#8100730](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8100730))

- **Quand** il fut informé de ces mauvaises nouvelles, Roy prit un air grave.
  Roy looked solemn as I told him the story.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and orcrist · checked, community translation · [\#49678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49678) [\#139718](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/139718))

## Grammar

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