minute
(=tiny) minuscule
Her flat is minute. Son appartement est minuscule.
a minute amount une quantité infime
Only a minute amount is needed. Seule une quantité infime est nécessaire.
[detail] minutieux (-euse)
in minute detail dans les moindre détails
→ The party was planned in the minutest detail.
(=sixty seconds) minute f
She was ten minutes late. Elle avait dix minutes de retard.
it is 5 minutes past 3 il est 3 heures 5
→ Half a minute later she came in the front door.
(=moment) minute f
Wait a minute! Attendez une minute!
→ Wait a minute, folks, something is wrong here.
hey, just a minute! hé, une minute !
for a minute
(=short time) pendant une minute
→ Will you excuse me if I sit down for a minute?
I don't believe it for a minute. Je n'y crois pas un seul instant.
at the last minute à la dernière minute
→ The location has been changed at the last minute.
to wait until the last minute attendre la dernière minute
→ He will probably wait until the last minute.
(in adverbial phrases)
this minute (adv, *)
(=immediately) tout de suite
→ Anna, stop that. Sit down this minute.
→ I need to speak with her this minute.
the minute (that) ... (conj)
(=as soon as) à la minute où ...
→ The minute you do this, you'll lose control.
The minute that the war started, everybody was glued to the television. À la minute où la guerre a commencé, tout le monde était collé devant son poste de télévision.
any minute (adv)
(=very soon) à tout moment
→ It looked as though it might rain any minute.
→ He ought to be back any minute.
any minute now (adv)
(=very soon) à tout moment
→ Any minute now, that phone is going to ring.
within minutes (adv)
(=very soon) en l'espace de quelques minutes
→ Within minutes we realized our mistake.
in a minute
(=very soon) tout de suite
Bye Mum, see you in a minute. Au revoir Maman, à tout de suite.
(from meeting)
procès-verbal m
→ A minute from the meeting of the sub-committee
minutes
npl procès-verbal m
→ He'd been reading the minutes of the last meeting.
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