ago in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for ago in the English»French Dictionary

ago [Brit əˈɡəʊ, Am əˈɡoʊ] ADV

three weeks/two years ago

il y a trois semaines/deux ans

some time ago

il y a quelque temps

long ago

il y a longtemps

how long ago?

il y a combien de temps?

not long ago

il y a peu de temps

as long ago as 1986

dès 1986, déjà en 1986

they got married forty years ago today

cela fait quarante ans aujourd'hui qu'ils sont mariés

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aeons ago inf

il y a une éternité

a decade ago

il y a dix ans

it was light years ago

ça fait un bail inf

donkey's years ago inf

il y a une éternité

I saw him maybe three weeks ago

je l'ai vu il y a peut-être trois semaines

Translations for ago in the French»English Dictionary

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avant-hier matin/soir

two mornings/evenings ago

il s'édite plus de livres qu'il y a 20 ans

more books are published now than 20 years ago

ils ont fait irruption dans le monde du rock il y a dix ans

they burst onto the rock scene ten years ago

il y a ou cela fait belle lurette qu'elle a tout dépensé

she spent it all ages ago inf

ago in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for ago in the English»French Dictionary

ago [ə·ˈgoʊ] ADV

that was a long time ago

c'était il y a longtemps

a minute/a year ago

il y a une minute/un an

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the club was chartered ten years ago

le club a été fondé il y a dix ans

a few weeks ago

il y a quelques semaines

a week ago this [or a week last ...] Friday

il y a une semaine vendredi ...

some time ago

il y a quelques temps

Translations for ago in the French»English Dictionary

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il y a belle lurette que qn a fait qc inf

sb did sth ages ago

depuis belle lurette inf

ages ago

ça ne fait jamais que deux heures qu'il est parti

he left just two hours ago

il y a longtemps

a long time ago

il y a aujourd'hui huit mois/un an que qn a fait qc

eight months/a year ago today sb did sth

il y a deux ans

two years ago

mais ça fait un siècle de ça!

but that was ages ago!

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

I tried it for the first time about two years ago.

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The site has evidence of habitation as early as 700,000 years ago.

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The species originated about 60 million years ago.

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Only a few generations ago (our great-great-grandparents), most people worked on farms.

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Ten years ago today, a vast, invaluable trove of movie history was capriciously shut down.

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And if high-sounding talk did any good, we'd have overcome those deep problems long ago.

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Fourteen years ago the unemployment benefit was 91 per cent of the single pension.

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He said that people now showed a lot more understanding of my position than a year ago.

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I remember that 10 years ago this event, formerly as imperturbable as the seasons, was overcome with a mood of sobriety.

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Scrawled on the back is a message to her from a thousand years ago.

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