single — English to French

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

What it means: single in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: single (103 334), singles (257). By style: everyday 280 · literary 41 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 15 108 · legal and administrative 26 931 · UN documents 61 230.

unique

Used about 24 145 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 665 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 630 · UN documents ≈ 10 843).

• A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

  Une unique mort est une tragédie, un million de morts est une statistique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by karloelkebekio and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3630867 #3630874

• In that immense horizon, which assumed so many aspects about him, his contemplation was concentrated on a single point.

  Dans cet immense horizon qui prenait tant d'aspects autour de lui, sa contemplation était concentrée sur un point unique.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8963

• What was that we were saying about a single European voice?

  Que disait-on à propos d’une voix européenne unique?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 515809

• the single point of contact referred to in Article 25;

  le guichet unique visé à l'article 25;

  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 4868128

• But we are not wedded to a single model of reform.

  Mais nous n ' insistons pas sur un modèle unique de réforme.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 14829687

seul

Used about 9 612 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 86 · literary ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 1 259 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 142 · UN documents ≈ 5 103). Forms: seul, seule.

• Tom is single again.

  Tom est de nouveau seul.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · #7733736 #12234580

• Marius had not failed for a single day.

  Marius n'avait point failli un seul jour.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14818

• The report singles out only one of the major partners for cooperation in dealing with China.

  Le rapport ne souligne qu’un seul des principaux partenaires en matière de coopération vis-à-vis de la Chine.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 848961

• With an outer shell of a single identical fabric

  Dont l’extérieur est réalisé dans une seule et même étoffe

  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 170367

• There is not a single member of the Russian military on Georgian territory.

  Il n ' y a pas un seul soldat russe sur le territoire géorgien.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23808557

More sentences

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

• I'm a single parent.

  Je suis un parent célibataire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5166542 #11675491

• You don't hesitate to remind me every single time.

  Toi, tu ne te gênes pas pour me le rappeler à chaque fois.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Aiji · checked, community translation · #13818690 #8608324

• We followed him single file till we reached the cabin.

  Nous le suivîmes en file indienne jusqu'à ce que nous parvînmes à la cabane.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #532025 #1833422

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