French English Dictionary

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déjà in English:

1. already


They're already here.
Tom bought a camera just a couple of days ago, but he's already lost it.
It has already been sixty years since our school was founded.
This road should have already been completed according to the original plan.
My guests have only been here since yesterday, but they've already eaten me out of house and home.
There is nothing you can do that I haven't already done to myself.
Apparently, Tom was already famous before he released that album.
Preparations are already under way for the Olympic Games.
It already faced a strong fight against the European Allies.
In fact, the sea has already risen 10 centimeters since the beginning of this century.
Unfortunately she already has a steady boyfriend.
She's already rich even though she's only 26 years old.
A considerable amount of time and effort have been spent already.
He and I have a near-telepathic understanding of each other. No sooner does one of us say something than the other is already responding.
You're covering the same ground. We already talked about this.

English word "déjà"(already) occurs in sets:

Time expressions - Expressions pour exprimer le temps
Common adverbs - Adverbes courants
Fiches du livre - "The Third Volume" (Fergus Hume)
Fiches du livre - "The Miracle Man" (Frank L. Pack...
French time expressions - les expressions du temps...

2. ever


He hardly ever works.
As far as I know, no one has ever done it.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
I think it's a shame that some foreign language teachers were able to graduate from college without ever having studied with a native speaker.
All you ever do is nitpick. I wish you could say something more constructive.
No one ever knew the true story except the three of us.
Unless you started learning English as a child, you're unlikely to ever sound like a native speaker.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Didn't it ever occur to them that they would be punished?
If you ever do anything to hurt Tom, I'll kill you.
The best cookies I've ever eaten are the ones that your mother baked for me.
Though grammatically there is nothing wrong with this sentence, I doubt if anyone would actually ever use it.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
Regardless of how much he drank, he seems as sober as ever.
After winning the Nobel prize, she remained as modest as ever.

English word "déjà"(ever) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Snowflakes" (Esther Nelson Karn)
Fiches du livre - "Captain January" (Laura E. Rich...
Fiches du livre - "Afloat on the Flood" (Lawrence ...
Fiches du livre - "The Comforts of Home" (Ralph Be...
Fiches du livre - "Thy Rocks and Rills" (Robert Er...