except — English to French

How English except is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: except in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: except (70 150), excepts (21). By style: everyday 168 · literary 39 · biblical 83 · parliamentary 1 264 · legal and administrative 22 952 · UN documents 45 665.

sauf

Used about 18 482 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 63 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 395 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 260 · UN documents ≈ 12 759).

• Everyone knows except you.

  Tout le monde le sait, sauf toi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · #11136619 #11136777

• "Nothing, except a little pain in the ears."

  —-Aucunement, sauf quelques douleurs d'oreilles.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2177

• I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

  Mais je vous dis que celui qui répudie sa femme, sauf pour infidélité, et qui en épouse une autre, commet un adultère.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 19:9

• They were all rejected except for one.

  Ils ont tous été refusés, sauf un.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1648037

• (Except for the subspecies included in Annex A)

  (sauf les sous-espèces inscrites à l’annexe A)

  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 1513204

excepté

Used about 17 109 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 474 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 173 · UN documents ≈ 9 402). Forms: exception, excepté.

• I don't like anyone here except Tom.

  Je n'apprécie personne ici, excepté Tom.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · #9431861 #11293643

• All were uncovered except the king.

  Tous étaient découverts, excepté le roi.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7334

• I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,

  Je rends grâces à Dieu de ce que je n’ai baptisé aucun de vous, excepté Crispus et Gaïus,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 1:14

• Third country nationals are not included in our action plan except as family members.

  Les citoyens des pays tiers ne font pas partie de notre plan d'action, excepté en tant que membres familiaux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1874983

• HU: Unbound except for CPC 63211.

  HU: Aucun engagement, à l'exception de CPC 63211.

  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 319142

More sentences

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

• Nothing is true except what isn't said.

  Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #2995383 #2995376

• The kitchen table was bare except for a bowl of fruit.

  À part une coupe de fruits, la table de la cuisine était vide.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and Rovo · checked, community translation · #4482901 #4484917

• No one ever knew the true story except the three of us.

  Personne n'a jamais su la véritable histoire à part nous trois.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #28909 #7236791

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