never — English to French

How English never is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: never in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: never (44 040), nevers (12). By style: everyday 4 609 · literary 155 · biblical 90 · parliamentary 8 689 · legal and administrative 1 898 · UN documents 28 611.

jamais

Used about 32 115 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 417 · literary ≈ 90 · biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 6 698 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 612 · UN documents ≈ 19 247).

He never got over it.
Il ne s'en est jamais remis.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #13816537 #9999875
“You are never to be seen nowadays,” said he.
--On ne vous aperçoit plus jamais? dit-il.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2327
In you, LORD, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed.
Éternel! je cherche en toi mon refuge: Que jamais je ne sois confondu!
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 71:1
This study has never been carried out.
Cette étude n'a jamais été faite.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 135890
Person never works on Sundays
La personne ne travaille jamais le dimanche
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 656823

n

Used about 916 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 96 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 724 · legal and administrative ≈ 72).

Ziri never meant to break up with Rima.
Ziri n'avait nullement l'intention de se séparer de Rima.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11173312 #11682211
This point was never explained.
Ce point n'a pas été éclairci.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6604
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
Ou je n’existerais pas, je serais comme un avorton caché, Comme des enfants qui n’ont pas vu la lumière.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 3:16
Three quarters of the committed funding never left the kitty.
Trois quarts des fonds engagés n'ont pu être affectés.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 148806
The Italian authorities never notified any individual case of application of Law No 808/1985 to the Commission under Article 88(3) of the EC Treaty.
Il est apparu que les autorités italiennes n'ont notifié aucun cas d'application de la loi no 808/85 conformément à l'article 88, paragraphe 3, du traité CE.
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 1406781

More sentences

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

That must never happen.
Il ne faut pas que cela se produise.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and menaud · checked, community translation · #3734806 #13055635
Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.”
Samson lui dit: Si on me liait avec sept cordes fraîches, qui ne fussent pas encore sèches, je deviendrais faible et je serais comme un autre homme.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 16:7
He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”
Il viendra, fera périr ces vignerons, et il donnera la vigne à d’autres. Lorsqu’ils eurent entendu cela, ils dirent: A Dieu ne plaise!
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:16

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