English Vocabulary

louispa0

User since 2007
Posts: 12

8 April 2008

how to translate in french "by the time"

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AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
8 April 2008

It depends on the context.
by the time = not later than > pas plus tard que, pour (ce moment où), etc....
Examples:
By the end of the week I'll have achieved this work > I'll have achieved this work before - or at last when - the week goes out.> J'aurai terminé ce travail pour la fin de la semaine. (Sorry, Willy, for speaking French, just for this once.)
By the time you come, everything will be OK. > Everyting will be OK when you come, > Tout sera en ordre pour votre venue.
By the time she dies, I'll have kicked the bucket. > Quand elle mourra, j'aurai déjà passé l'arme à gauche.
[CW]
It depends on the context. by the time = not later than > pas plus tard que, pour (ce moment où), etc.... Examples: By the end of the week I'll have achieved this work > I'll have achieved this work before - or at last when - the week goes out.> J'aurai terminé ce travail pour la fin de la semaine. (Sorry, Willy, for speaking French, just for this once.) By the time you come, everything will be OK. > Everyting will be OK when you come, > Tout sera en ordre pour votre venue. By the time she dies, I'll have kicked the bucket. > Quand elle mourra, j'aurai déjà passé l'arme à gauche. [CW]
Fugendichter
User since 2008
Posts: 588
8 April 2008

By the way, could you recommend me a very good Dictionary "English-French" and vice versa, which furnishes such good explications, Sandy?

Gwendo
By the way, could you recommend me a very good Dictionary "English-French" and vice versa, which furnishes such good explications, Sandy? Gwendo
AhQ ['a: kiu]
User since 2006
Posts: 2715
13 April 2008

No bilingual dictionary provides readers with "explications" but they do with explanations, my dear.
I for one use the Robert&Collins Senior. But I cannot compare as it is my single dictionary.

Well, Gwendo. I had thought you were a German native, would you be French native?
And between you and me, tell me, are you a male, a female? (or a transsexual?)
Thank you in advance for telling be. I promise I won't tell a soul.
No bilingual dictionary provides readers with "explications" but they do with explanations, my dear. I for one use the Robert&Collins Senior. But I cannot compare as it is my single dictionary. Well, Gwendo. I had thought you were a German native, would you be French native? And between you and me, tell me, are you a male, a female? (or a transsexual?) Thank you in advance for telling be. I promise I won't tell a soul.

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