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 Translation for 'the day before' from English to French
la veillethe day before
4 Words
avant-hier {adv}the day before yesterday
5+ Words
aux aurores {adv}before the break of day
Ayez tapé cette lettre avant la fin de la journée.Have that letter typed before the end of the day.
avant-hier soir {adv}the day before yesterday in the evening
Partial Matches
avant ce jour-là {adv}before that day
avant ce jour-ci {adv}before this day
la semaine {f} d'avantthe week before
la veille au soir {adv}the night before
le mois avant {adv}the month before
l'avant-dernière nuit {adv}the night before last
avant la fermeture des magasins {adv}before the shops close
dr.
passer en correctionnelle
to go before the magistrate
naut.
avoir le vent en poupe
to run before the wind
avant-hier soir {adv}the evening before last
juste avant le pont {adv}just before the bridge
fin.
payer avant l'échéance
to pay before the due date
de l'année passée {adj}of the year before [postpos.]
de l'année précédente {adj}of the year before [postpos.]
dr.
assignation {f} en justice
summons to appear before the court
dr.
traduire qn. en justice
to bring sb. up before the courts
le calme {m} avant la tempête [loc.]the lull before the storm [idiom]
de la même manière qu'avant {prep}in the same way as before
Je suis partie avant la fin.I left before the end. [female speaking]
mettre la charrue avant les bœufs [loc.]to put the cart before the horse [idiom]
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Usage Examples English
  • All operators have a land-based facility but fish are kept in containers on the reef until the day before the shipment.
  • For Jehoshaphat, the Scriptural data allow the narrowing of the beginning of his sole reign to some time between Tishri 1 of 871 BCE and the day before Nisan 1 of 870 BCE.
  • In 1940, "Le Bel Indifférent", Cocteau's play written for and starring Édith Piaf (who died the day before Cocteau), was enormously successful.
  • Altman was acting in response to a shooting at Jewish vehicles on the Tel Aviv–Jerusalem road the day before.
  • In Bergman's working arrangement with Sven Nykvist, his best-known cinematographer, the two men developed sufficient rapport to allow Bergman not to worry about the composition of a shot until the day before it was filmed.

  • Giuseppe Peano continued teaching at Turin University until the day before he died, when he suffered a fatal heart attack.
  • However, on 2 January 1792 its successor the Legislative Assembly decided that Year IV of Liberty had begun the day before.
  • The next day he returns to the storage room and is shocked to find everything as he had found it the day before, including the whipper and the two agents.
  • It evolved into the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR Party) in 2004, when it was founded as an official European party under that name and incorporated under Belgian law at an extraordinary Congress in Brussels, held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union.
  • Following his accident in 1928 in which his left hand was severely burned and he lost most of the use of all except his first two fingers, he developed a completely new left hand technique and started performing on guitar accompanying popular singers of the day, before discovering jazz and presenting his new hybrid style of gypsy approach plus jazz to the outside world via the Quintette du Hot Club de France.

  • The day before Hilbert pronounced these phrases at the 1930 annual meeting of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, Kurt Gödel—in a round table discussion during the Conference on Epistemology held jointly with the Society meetings—tentatively announced the first expression of his incompleteness theorem.
  • Heads of communion from each member of COCU (as well as the ELCA, a partner in mission and dialogue) inaugurated the group on the day before Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Small traditional businesses in India start the fiscal year on Diwali festival and end the day before the next year's Diwali festival.
  • 1935 with Boeing chief test-pilot Leslie Tower at the controls. The day before, Richard Williams, a reporter for "The Seattle Times", coined the name "Flying Fortress" when – observing the large number of machine guns sticking out from the new airplane – he described it as a "15-ton flying fortress" in a picture caption.
  • On the day before New Year, large and colourful sculptures of "Ogoh-ogoh" monsters are paraded and burned in the evening to drive away evil spirits.

  • At 3 pm the day before the opening ceremony, people began to line up outside the MCG gates.
  • On January 19, 1985, he introduced Rich Little at the nationally televised 50th Presidential Inaugural Gala, the day before the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan.
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