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# seconde — French to English

How French *seconde* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: seconde (27 409), secondes (5 429). By style: everyday 329 · literary 45 · biblical 79 · parliamentary 3 577 · legal and administrative 4 802 · UN documents 24 006.

## second

Used about 27 927 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 284 · literary ≈ 41 · biblical ≈ 66 · parliamentary ≈ 3 279 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 252 · UN documents ≈ 20 005). 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)

- **seconde** rangée, une escarboucle, un saphir, un diamant;
  and the **second** row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 28:18)

- 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)

## More sentences

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

- De nombreux travailleurs immigrés vinrent en Allemagne après la **Seconde** Guerre Mondiale.
  Numerous guest workers came to the West Germany.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13959061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13959061) [\#13959060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13959060))

- Puis-je te voir une **seconde** ?
  Can I see you for a sec?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3328139](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3328139) [\#3640210](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3640210))

- Nous avons obtenu la nationalité Américaine après la **Seconde** Guerre mondiale.
  We became Americanized after World War II.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wittydev and CK · checked, community translation · [\#276062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/276062) [\#1147892](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1147892))

## 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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