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Meaning: [time in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/time/). - Donne-lui du **temps**. Give her some **time**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3915849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3915849) [\#133610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/133610)) - Un certain **temps** s'écoula ainsi. In this manner a certain **time** elapsed. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3190) - Dans ce **temps**-là, Débora, prophétesse, femme de Lappidoth, était juge en Israël. Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that **time**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 4:4) - Lisez-le, je n'ai pas le **temps** de le faire. I do not have the **time** to read it out. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1384547) - un **temps** de réponse de 25 ms, a response **time** of 25 ms, ([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 3250258) ## little Used about 41 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 36). Meaning: [little in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/little/). - Les petits salons guindés de Montreuil-sur-mer qui, bien entendu, se fussent dans les premiers **temps** fermés à l'artisan, s'ouvrirent à deux battants au millionnaire. The prim **little** drawing-rooms on M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3594) - Encore un peu de **temps**, et le méchant n’est plus; Tu regardes le lieu où il était, et il a disparu. For yet a **little** while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 37:10) - Encore un peu de **temps**, et vous ne me verrez plus; et puis encore un peu de **temps**, et vous me verrez, parce que je vais au Père. “A **little** while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 16:16) - Encore un peu de **temps**, et le monde ne me verra plus; mais vous, vous me verrez, car je vis, et vous vivrez aussi. Yet a **little** while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 14:19) ## same Used about 14 times in the texts (literary ≈ 14). Meaning: [same in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/same/). - En même **temps** il vit une fille pâle debout devant lui. At the **same** moment, he perceived a pale girl standing before him. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22000) - Presque en même **temps** la foudre gronda, et très furieusement. Almost at the **same** instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20938) - En même **temps** il tendit son bras et posa sur la chair nue le ciseau ardent qu'il tenait dans sa main droite par le manche de bois. At the **same** moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17762) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - On ne peut pas faire deux choses en même **temps**. You can't do two things at once. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#280318](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/280318) [\#1272719](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1272719)) - Depuis combien de **temps** es-tu dans ce pays ? How long have you been in this country? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sharptoothed · checked, community translation · [\#2492866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2492866) [\#7790885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7790885)) - Comment sera le **temps** demain ? What's the weather going to be like tomorrow? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wakano and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#9444572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9444572) [\#2296207](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2296207)) ## 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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