à la fois

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French

Pronunciation

Adverb

à la fois

  1. at a time
    Ils sont arrivés deux à la fois - they arrived two at a time
  2. both, at once, at the same time
    • 1846, Alexandre Dumas, La Dame de Monsoreaufr.Wikisource, Part 1, Chapter 12: "Comment Bussy retrouva à la fois le portrait et l'original." [How Bussy recovered at once the portrait and the original]:
      [L]e jeune homme entendit une voix de femme empreinte à la fois de crainte et de dédain[...]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      [T]he young man heard a voice of a woman imprinted both with fear and with disdain[...]