nearly — English to French

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

What it means: nearly in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: nearly (23 075). By style: everyday 148 · literary 25 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 1 832 · legal and administrative 626 · UN documents 20 441.

presque

Used about 18 746 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 89 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 221 · legal and administrative ≈ 378 · UN documents ≈ 17 034). Forms: presque, près.

• I'm nearly ready.

  Je suis presque prêt.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · #7114494 #640044

• “Nearly seven good leagues.”

  --Près de sept grandes lieues.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5609

• According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

  Et presque tout, d’après la loi, est purifié avec du sang, et sans effusion de sang il n’y a pas de pardon.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 9:22

• I am sure that nearly all the Member States are going to do so.

  Je suis sûr que presque tous les États vont envoyer la leur.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1797804

• Fine, white, nearly odourless, crystalline powder

  Fine poudre cristalline de couleur blanche, presque inodore

  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 2596646

millions

Used about 13 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 13).

• According to the report, the share of digital terrestrial television has considerably increased: 3,6 million households use DVB-T, nearly twice as many as in the preceding year.

  Selon le rapport, la part de la télévision numérique hertzienne a considérablement augmenté: 3,6 millions de ménages, soit quasiment le double par rapport à l'année précédente, captent la DVB-T.

  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 1393815

More sentences

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

• It's nearly impossible.

  C'est pratiquement impossible.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1871837 #2040972

• She was nearly hit by a bicycle.

  Elle a failli être heurtée par un vélo.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #482501 #3642517

• I nearly missed the bus.

  J'ai failli rater le bus.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6866258 #11759035

Grammar

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