presque — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: presque (28 357). By style: everyday 965 · literary 140 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 4 647 · legal and administrative 1 166 · UN documents 21 435.

almost

Used about 16 557 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 744 · literary ≈ 108 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 292 · legal and administrative ≈ 802 · UN documents ≈ 11 611). Meaning: almost in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai presque tué Tom.

  I almost killed Tom.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rockaround and CK · checked, community translation · #5859875 #7668928

• Nous marchions presque sans mot dire.

  We moved on almost without a word.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1719

• Le sabbat suivant, presque toute la ville se rassembla pour entendre la parole de Dieu.

  The next Sabbath, almost the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 13:44

• Il est presque certain que votre question sera traitée par écrit.

  Your question will almost certainly be answered in writing.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1018954

• Tous les jours ou presque tous les jours

  Every day or almost every day

  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 2148186

nearly

Used about 6 755 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 80 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 678 · legal and administrative ≈ 170 · UN documents ≈ 5 805). Meaning: nearly in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai presque fini.

  I'm nearly finished.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ANH_DAO and CK · checked, community translation · #2248109 #3846

• En effet, des quintes de toux interrompaient Fantine presque à chaque mot.

  In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6364

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

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

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

• Le Conseil a adopté presque tous les amendements.

  The Council accepted nearly all of the amendments.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 48258

• Poudre blanche ou presque blanche

  White or nearly white powder

  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 1454400

every

Used about 640 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 194 · UN documents ≈ 447). Meaning: every in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Lorsque nous avons débuté les négociations le dernier jour, presque toutes les suggestions ont été rejetées.

  When we started negotiations on the last day more or less every suggestion was rejected.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1260575

• Presque tous les aspects de la vie quotidienne des Palestiniens et des autres Arabes du territoire palestinien occupé ont été sérieusement affectés.

  Practically every aspect of the daily life of Palestinians and other Arabs in the OPT has been severely affected.

  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 11441021

• Si nous tardons trop, nous courons le risque de rouvrir le débat sur presque tous les articles du projet de Constitution.

  If we take too long, there is a risk of reopening the debate on virtually every article in the draft Constitution.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 534919

More sentences

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

• Je n'ai presque pas d'argent sur moi.

  I have hardly any money with me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and CK · checked, community translation · #253269 #1720078

• Mon service est presque terminé.

  My shift's over soon.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #4013255 #3640648

• Je ne sais presque rien.

  I know next to nothing.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and freddy1 · checked, community translation · #2116256 #8285894

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