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# tard — French to English

How French *tard* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: tard (74 965), tarde (794), tardes (6). By style: everyday 1 063 · literary 45 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 5 532 · legal and administrative 22 188 · UN documents 46 907.

## late

Used about 29 301 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 854 · literary ≈ 36 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 2 247 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 947 · UN documents ≈ 14 214). Forms: late, later, latest. Meaning: [late in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/late/).

- Il se fait **tard**.
  It's getting **late**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#599230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/599230) [\#1957707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1957707))

- --Il sera trop **tard**.
  “It will be too **late**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24915)

- Environ trois heures plus **tard**, sa femme entra, sans savoir ce qui était arrivé.
  About three hours **later**, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 5:7)

- Mieux vaut **tard** que jamais.
  It is never **late** if the outcome is good.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2024991)

- au plus **tard** vingt-quatre heures avant l'arrivée au port, ou
  at the **latest** twenty-four hours before arriving in the port, or
  ([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 2961448)

## tarde

Used about 11 371 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 11 371).

- Más **tarde** le habrían dejado en libertad.
  Más **tarde** le habrían dejado en libertad.
  ([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 12180949)

- Más **tarde** la habrían llevado a un calabozo.
  Más **tarde** la habrían llevado a un calabozo.
  ([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 13817018)

- Habría sido puesto en libertad tres días más **tarde**.
  Habría sido puesto en libertad tres días más **tarde**.
  ([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 13840972)

- Por la **tarde** del mismo día habría sido puesta en libertad.
  Por la **tarde** del mismo día habría sido puesta en libertad.
  ([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 10718147)

- Habría fallecido unos días más **tarde**, el 20 de junio de 2003.
  Habría fallecido unos días más **tarde**, el 20 de junio de 2003.
  ([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 13837893)

## de

Used about 3 317 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 317). Meaning: [de in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/de/).

- Unos días más **tardes**, unos agentes de policía vestidos de civil le habrían disparado en la cara.
  Unos días más tardes, unos agentes **de** policía vestidos de civil le habrían disparado en la cara.
  ([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 13831902)

- Dans tous les cas, le signal doit être désactivé au plus **tard** lorsque la décélération tombe sous le seuil de 0,7 m/s2 6/.
  In all cases the signal shall be **de**-activated at the latest when the deceleration has fallen below 0.7 m/s². 6/
  ([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 22810959)

- En vertu de ces dispositions, les demandes doivent être reçues par le Président de l &apos; Assemblée générale au plus **tard** le 17 mai 2002.
  En vertu **de** ces dispositions, les demandes doivent être reçues par le Président de l &apos; Assemblée générale au plus tard le 17 mai 2002.
  ([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 9538622)

- Les délégations sont priées de faxer leurs lettres de créance au secrétariat de l’UNICEF (326-7096) le plus tôt possible et au plus **tard** le 23 mai 1997.
  Les délégations sont priées **de** faxer leurs lettres de créance au secrétariat de l’UNICEF (326-7096) le plus tôt possible et au plus tard le 23 mai 1997.
  ([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 4210058)

- Les délégations sont priées de faxer leurs lettres de créance au Secrétaire du Conseil d’administration de l’UNICEF (326-7096) le plus tôt possible et au plus **tard** le 23 mai 1997.
  Les délégations sont priées **de** faxer leurs lettres de créance au Secrétaire du Conseil d’administration de l’UNICEF (326-7096) le plus tôt possible et au plus tard le 23 mai 1997.
  ([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 4128532)

## than

Used about 427 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 427). Meaning: [than in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/than/).

- Le document de référence du réseau est publié au plus **tard** quatre mois avant la date limite pour l'introduction des demandes de capacités de l'infrastructure.
  The network statement shall be published no less **than** four months in advance of the deadline for requests for infrastructure capacity.
  ([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 2561115)

## More sentences

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

- Je viendrai chez toi plus **tard**.
  I'll come over to yours afterwards.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10782147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10782147) [\#10197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10197))

- Que veux-tu faire plus **tard** ?
  What do you want to do in the future?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slist and CK · checked, community translation · [\#15992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15992) [\#430395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/430395))

- Savez-vous déjà si vous irez à la plage plus **tard**, et, si oui, quand ?
  Do you already know whether you will go to the beach afterwards, and, if yes, when?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1160785](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1160785) [\#1142049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1142049))

## Grammar

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