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Forms: delay, delaying, delays. - Quelle était la cause de son **retard** ? What was the cause of his **delay**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by genes1s and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2259878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2259878) [\#13338088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13338088)) - —Mais, enfin, vous n'êtes pas sujet à éprouver des **retards** considérables? "But are you not subject to considerable **delays**?" ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 797) - Cela **retarde** les débats. That **delays** the debates. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 795790) - **Retards** dans la procédure de recouvrement **Delays** in the recovery process ([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 3808765) - + Le train arrive en **retard**. + the train arrives with **delay**. ([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 9817822) ## late Used about 3 167 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 648 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 374 · legal and administrative ≈ 747 · UN documents ≈ 1 397). Meaning: [late in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/late/). - Le train est en **retard**. The train's **late**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#6121031](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6121031) [\#6359879](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6359879)) - --Nous avons vingt minutes de **retard**, et le train ne s'arrête pas. “We are twenty minutes **late**, and we shall not stop.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2487) - Ce document arrive avec beaucoup de **retard**, j'en suis conscient. This is coming **late**, really late. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1417439) - INTÉRÊTS DE **RETARD** ET AMENDES INTEREST ON **LATE** PAYMENTS AND FINES ([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 3786630) - Non réalisé en raison du **retard** dans la mise en place de la Section de la justice Not done owing to **late** establishment of the Justice Section ([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 14499715) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - L’horloge a cinq minutes de **retard**. The clock is five minutes behind. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#12415902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12415902) [\#12415904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12415904)) - Je me demande si elle acceptera un cadeau d'anniversaire en **retard**. I wonder if she'll accept a belated birthday present. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#695185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/695185) [\#695190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/695190)) - Il sera en **retard** pour la réunion. He won't be in time for the meeting. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#294615](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/294615) [\#131736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131736)) ## 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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