DEVANT translate: in front of, in front, front, past, before, forecourt, front, ahead, at the front of, in front (of). Learn more in the Cambridge ...

devant · 1. [placer, situé] in front. Il marchait devant. He was walking in front. · 2. [passer]. On est passés devant hier. We went past it yesterday. · 3. (= ... Par-devant · Ci-devant · Là-devant · Devanture

Translation of "devant" in English · before · in front · in front of · outside · fore · bow · ahead of · past · faced with face.

Translate "devant" from French to English, front, before, outside, de devant, devant la cour, devant un public, . See word usage in contexts, ...

I.devant [d(ə)vɑ̃] PREP ... 1. devant: devant (en face de) être, se trouver, rester · in front of. Preselect for export to vocabulary trainer; View selected ...

Il est devant la porte. He is in front of the door. Une fille apparut devant moi. A girl appeared before me. Personne ne courait devant lui.

(position) in front of , (en circulant) past, (dans une évolution, dans le temps) ahead of. Il était assis devant moi. He was sitting in front of me.

NB: Sometimes in English you can use both 'before' and 'in front of' in a sense of space. In these cases in French, you can only use devant as it is the ...

The preposition avant is a preposition of time: it tells us when something happened in relation to something else and equates to the English before.

Prepositions of location in French ; dans, in/inside ; sur, on/on top of ; devant, in front of ; derrière, behind ; entre, between.