before in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for before in the English»Italian Dictionary (Go to Italian»English)

I.before [Brit bɪˈfɔː, Am bəˈfɔr] PREP

1. before (earlier than):

before
I was there the week before last
six weeks before then
before long it will be winter
not before time!

II.before [Brit bɪˈfɔː, Am bəˈfɔr] ADJ

III.before [Brit bɪˈfɔː, Am bəˈfɔr] ADV (at an earlier time)

IV.before [Brit bɪˈfɔː, Am bəˈfɔr] CONJ

V.before [Brit bɪˈfɔː, Am bəˈfɔr]

II.go before VB [ɡəʊ -] (go before [sb, sth])

lay before VB [leɪ -] (lay [sth] before sb)

best-before date [Brit bɛstbɪˈfɔː deɪt] N

Translations for before in the Italian»English Dictionary (Go to English»Italian)

before in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for before in the English»Italian Dictionary (Go to Italian»English)

III.before [bɪ·ˈfɔ:r] CONJ

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to quail before sb/sth
to haul sb up before sb

Translations for before in the Italian»English Dictionary (Go to English»Italian)

before Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

he had a glass before he went
it was a week before he came
to cast one's pearls before the swine prov

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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Balance your chequebook before spending any money in 2016.
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I wasn't exactly a night owl, but they went to bed way before my bedtime.
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However, most Scottish serfs had been freed before this time.
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In this match he scored 44 runs before being run out.
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Young people should use every political means at their disposal to change this law back to the fair and non-discriminatory way it was before.
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It's corn-fed and aged for 21 days before being roasted in rock salt and transferred to domed stainless steel carts and carved.
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The azygos vein joins it just before it enters the right atrium, at the upper right front portion of the heart.
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In tensile testing, the best irons are able to undergo considerable elongation before failure.
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The trouble recently is that very few acknowledge the gesture and sometimes men barge through before women.
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She was also prohibited from hunting for a period of three years, and ordered to take the hunter education and ethics course before obtaining her next hunting licence.
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