very — English to French

How English very is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: very in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: very (257 862). By style: everyday 7 200 · literary 391 · biblical 253 · parliamentary 96 493 · legal and administrative 9 876 · UN documents 143 649.

très

Used about 165 595 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 000 · literary ≈ 98 · biblical ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 56 288 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 407 · UN documents ≈ 95 766).

• That's very nice.

  C'est très gentil.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2251318 #4542950

• “Ah! ha! very good.

  --Ah! ah! très bien.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1722

• “The LORD was very displeased with your fathers.

  L’Éternel a été très irrité contre vos pères.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 1:2

• It was very comprehensive.

  Elle était très complète.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1152637

• Very-high-frequency (VHF) radios

  Radios très haute fréquence (VHF)

  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 4505718

était

Used about 6 017 times in the texts (literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 16 · UN documents ≈ 5 985).

• Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very great.

  Sous les apparentes similitudes de l'esprit extérieur, la différence entre Tholomyès et lui était grande.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14084

• since he longed for you all, and was very troubled because you had heard that he was sick.

  Car il désirait vous voir tous, et il était fort en peine de ce que vous aviez appris sa maladie.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 2:26

• In the midst of the cold war, the East-West confrontation had posed a threat to its security and to its very survival.

  Le monde était alors plongé dans la guerre froide, et la confrontation Est-Ouest constituait une menace réelle pour la sécurité de l ' Italie.

  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 2132883

• And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a very thick and admirably made mat, he added:—

  Et montrant à l'aîné la natte sur laquelle il était couché, natte fort épaisse et admirablement travaillée, il ajouta:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20872

• After this, Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same did very wickedly.

  Après cela, Josaphat, roi de Juda, s’associa avec le roi d’Israël, Achazia, dont la conduite était impie.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 20:35

peu

Used about 441 times in the texts (literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 5 · legal and administrative ≈ 412).

• "Upon my word, this is a very clever hypothesis," I exclaimed, in spite rather of myself.

  —Mais voilà une ingénieuse hypothèse! m'écriai-je un peu malgré moi.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 527

• For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

  Mais, encore un peu de temps, Et le châtiment cessera, Puis ma colère se tournera contre lui pour l’anéantir.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 10:25

• Pay TV and free TV service offerings are not very substitutable from the standpoint of demand.

  En effet, les offres de télévision payante et de télévision gratuite sont peu substituables du point de vue de la demande.

  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 1164055

• But in a very short time, all these efforts at communal legislation fell into abeyance.

  Mais, en peu de temps, tous ces essais de législation communale tombèrent en désuétude.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7009

• Internet usage for listening to web radio replaced listening to normal radio (very much; to some extent; not at all),

  utilisation de l’internet pour écouter la radio sur le web au lieu d’écouter la radio normale (beaucoup; un peu; pas du tout),

  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 1267144

More sentences

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

• I care about him very much.

  Je tiens beaucoup à lui.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Blabla · checked, community translation · #2908368 #7788087

• You have made the very same mistake again.

  Tu as de nouveau commis exactement la même erreur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #16421 #469850

• I have enjoyed myself very much.

  Je me suis bien amusé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #436669 #14720

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