almost — English to French

How English almost is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: almost in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: almost (49 380), almosts (1). By style: everyday 964 · literary 127 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 7 141 · legal and administrative 2 128 · UN documents 39 015.

presque

Used about 36 430 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 823 · literary ≈ 111 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 868 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 552 · UN documents ≈ 30 074). Forms: presque, près.

• You almost had me.

  Tu m'as presque eu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · #3722614 #11928404

• He almost trembled lest she should want him.

  Il tremblait presque qu'elle ne voulût de lui.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1446

• The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

  Le sabbat suivant, presque toute la ville se rassembla pour entendre la parole de Dieu.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 13:44

• It is almost too good to be true.

  C’est presque trop beau pour être vrai.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 658258

• White or almost white hygroscopic powder.

  Poudre hygroscopique blanche ou presque blanche.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2824218

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• Paid maternity leave is a benefit available in almost all countries, except the United States.

  Le congé maternité est une indemnité disponible dans la plupart des pays, à l'exception des États-Unis d'Amérique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #4870436 #4884206

• The molecule's complexity makes its synthesis almost impossible.

  La complexité de la molécule rend sa synthèse quasiment impossible.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and alexisslay · checked, community translation · #12927286 #5361164

• I almost had a canary!

  J'ai failli faire une crise cardiaque !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano_ and Myrano_ · checked, community translation · #13825924 #13825929

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