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French
Pronunciation
Preposition
jusqu’à
- until
- to (used together with depuis to indicate a time range)
2019, Lours, Air:Depuis la nuit des temps jusqu’à la fin des nuits- From the dawn of time to the end of days
- up to
2001, Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, Les biotechnologies au service de la durabilité industrielle, page 112:Afin de conduire la comparaison dans des conditions identiques, ils ont délimité le champ de l’analyse en choisissant le point jusqu’auquel et le point à partir duquel les procédés sont les mêmes, indépendamment de la substitution des procédés.- In order to conduct the comparison in identical conditions, they defined the scope of the analysis by choosing the point up to which and the point from which the same method would be used, before and after the different techniques were tried.
Usage notes
- Contractions formed with the preposition à (e.g. au, aux, auxquelles, etc.) are also used with jusqu'à, forming compounded contractions including (but not limited to) jusqu’au, jusqu’aux, jusqu’auxquelles, jusqu’aujourd’hui, and jusqu’au-delà.
- Unlike English until, jusqu'à is only a preposition, never a conjunction. The corresponding conjunction is jusqu’à ce que.
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