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# second — French to English

How French *second* 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: second (41 705), seconde (27 409), secondes (5 429), seconds (1 183). By style: everyday 373 · literary 64 · biblical 189 · parliamentary 6 363 · legal and administrative 8 765 · UN documents 59 972.

## second

Used about 57 394 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 314 · literary ≈ 59 · biblical ≈ 165 · parliamentary ≈ 4 640 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 300 · UN documents ≈ 45 916). Forms: second, seconds. Meaning: [second in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/second/).

- Accorde-moi une **seconde** !
  Give me a **second**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1841171](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1841171) [\#1845941](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1845941))

- J'entrai dans la **seconde**.
  I entered the **second**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5290)

- Le **second** et le troisième épousèrent la veuve;
  The **second** took her as wife, and he died childless.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:30)

- J'en viens maintenant à ma **seconde** question.
  And for my **second** question.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 355911)

- The Plant-Book, **seconde** édition \[D.
  The Plant-Book, **second** edition, \[D.
  ([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 988570)

## latter

Used about 4 845 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 762 · legal and administrative ≈ 639 · UN documents ≈ 3 436). Meaning: [latter in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/latter/).

- La **seconde** moitié du film était intéressante.
  The **latter** half of the film was interesting.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and vijaysharma · checked, community translation · [\#2286356](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2286356) [\#12179582](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12179582))

- Les premiers appartiennent à la zone euro, les **seconds** se trouvent en dehors.
  The former are members of the euro area, the **latter** are not.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1238405)

- Les **seconds** doivent suivre les modèles de l’annexe 3.
  The **latter** shall be set out as in Annex 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 1370718)

- Dans certains pays, les **seconds** faisaient partie intégrante des premiers.
  In some countries the **latter** was part of the former.
  ([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 3739345)

- J. J. Thomson et son fils George Thomson ont tous deux reçu le prix Nobel de physique : le premier, en 1906, pour avoir démontré que l'électron est une particule ; le **second**, en 1937, pour avoir montré que l'électron est une onde.
  J. J. Thomson and his son George Thomson were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics: the former in 1906 for demonstrating that the electron is a particle, and the **latter** in 1937 for showing that the electron is a wave.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10610286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10610286) [\#10610291](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10610291))

## More sentences

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

- Les élections se dirigent vers un **second** tour.
  The elections head to a run-off.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and enebi · checked, community translation · [\#11765052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11765052) [\#11765057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11765057))

- Christophe Colomb était connu pour arrêter habituellement son réveille-matin d'un puissant coup de poing. Malheureusement, en ce temps-là, son réveille-matin était son **Second**.
  Christopher Columbus was notorious for repeatedly snoozing his alarm clock by hitting it with his fist. Unfortunately, his "alarm clock" was usually his first mate.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and FeuDRenais · checked, community translation · [\#551085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/551085) [\#763385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/763385))

- La femme doit-elle toujours jouer le **second** rôle ?
  Must the woman always play the secondary role?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Jesse · checked, community translation · [\#267312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/267312) [\#491114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/491114))

## Grammar

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