English-Finnish translations for former

• entinen
  EJTM, Kosovo, entinen Jugoslavia. FYROM, Kosovo, former Yugoslavia.
  Tämän päivän Venäjä ei ole entinen Neuvostoliitto. Today's Russia is not the former Soviet Union.
  Lisäksi Tšad on Ranskan entinen siirtomaa. In addition, Chad is a former colony of France.
• edellinen
  Edellinen palauttaa vakauden, kun taas jälkimmäinen vaarantaa sen. The former restores stability, while the latter endangers it.
  Toinen on se, että edellinen esittelijä viivästytti mietintöä. One of them is the fact that the former rapporteur delayed the report.
  Edellinen vaihtoehto on selvästikin yhtä mahdoton kuin se on epätoivottava. The former is clearly as impossible as it would be totally undesirable.
• edeltävä
  Arvoisa puhemies, näistä päivämääristä päätti edeltävä Saksan hallitus. Madam President, these dates were set by the former German Government.
  Tässä mielessä on syytä palauttaa mieliin entisen liberaalikollegani, parlamentin flaamilaisen jäsenen Karel De Guchtin laatima erinomainen edeltävä esitys. It is worth remembering, in this respect, the excellent earlier draft produced by my former Liberal colleague, the Flemish Member Karel De Gucht.
• ensimmäinen
  Slovenia oli ensimmäinen entisen Jugoslavian valtioista, joka liittyi EU:hun. Slovenia was the first of the former Yugoslav states to join the EU.
  Näin siksi, että vastoinkäymisen ja suurtulvan välillä ensimmäinen vaihtoehto on selkeästi kahdesta harmista pienempi. In other words between a disgrace and a cataclysm obviously the former option would be the lesser of two evils.
  Slovakia on ensimmäinen entiseen kommunistiblokkiin kuulunut maa, joka haluaa liittyä euroalueeseen 1. tammikuuta 2009. in writing. - (PL) Slovakia is the first country of the former Communist bloc to wish to enter the euro area, as of 1 January 2009.

Definition of former

• Previous
• First of aforementioned two items. Used with , often without a noun
• Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder
• An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die
• Someone in, or of, a certain form (class

Examples

• A former president; the former East Germany
• The former is a good idea but the latter is not
• I drive two vehicles, a Chevy Camaro and an AMC Gremlin. I won the former on a game show
• Dave was the former of the company.
• The brick arch was built using a wooden former.
• Fifth-former.
• Sixth-former.

Related words

• informer
• transformer
• formerly
• reformer
• performer
• conformer
• autotransformer
• disinformer
• formeret