rien — French to English

How French rien is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: rien (53 701), riens (7). By style: everyday 4 391 · literary 280 · biblical 392 · parliamentary 15 320 · legal and administrative 2 634 · UN documents 30 691.

nothing

Used about 14 745 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 013 · literary ≈ 174 · biblical ≈ 188 · parliamentary ≈ 6 566 · legal and administrative ≈ 494 · UN documents ≈ 5 312). Meaning: nothing in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tu n'es rien pour moi.

  You mean nothing to me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2288203 #11566695

• Rien ne suffit à l'amour.

  Nothing suffices for love.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20223

• Cantique de David. L’Éternel est mon berger: je ne manquerai de rien.

  A Psalm by David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall lack nothing.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 23:1

• Il ne maîtrise rien du tout.

  It has nothing under control!

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1799135

• Rien ne va dans ce sens.

  There is nothing to suggest that this is so.

  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 2017334

there

Used about 12 786 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 91 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 1 876 · legal and administrative ≈ 768 · UN documents ≈ 10 034). Meaning: there in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Rien n'est gratuit.

  There's no such thing as a free lunch.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Eldad · checked, community translation · #652222 #11866039

• Passez aux îles de Kittim, et regardez! Envoyez quelqu’un à Kédar, observez bien, Et regardez s’il y a rien de semblable!

  For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 2:10

• L'ordre alphabétique n'a donc rien à voir là-dedans.

  In this case, therefore, there is no discretion in the application of alphabetical order.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1162415

• Rien n'indiquait que la négociation de ces contrats avec des banques privées avait abouti.

  There was no evidence of successful negotiation of forward contracts with private banks.

  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 1965722

• Rien ne saurait justifier cette exclusion continue.

  There is no justification for this ongoing exclusion.

  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 16535702

anything

Used about 2 598 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 281 · literary ≈ 34 · biblical ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 1 251).

• Il n'a rien fait.

  He hasn't done anything.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1911999 #1914072

• Il n'entendait plus rien.

  He no longer heard anything.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27575

• Mais Pierre dit: Non, Seigneur, car je n’ai jamais rien mangé de souillé ni d’impur.

  But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 10:14

• Depuis l'an 2000, toutes les mesures contre le chômage, la pauvreté et l'exclusion n'ont servi à rien.

  Since 2000, none of the measures to combat unemployment, poverty and exclusion have achieved anything.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 998781

• Je n'ai rien entendu.

  I didn't hear anything.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #555270 #1410213

t

Used about 1 019 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 366 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 57 · UN documents ≈ 590). Meaning: t in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Cela ne fait rien.

  It doesn't matter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and CK · checked, community translation · #37894 #7646686

• —Voilà ce dont je ne suis pas persuadé, mon oncle, car rien ne prouve l'authenticité de ce document.

  "I don't feel so very sure of that, uncle," I replied; "for we have no proof of the authenticity of this document."

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 433

• Et ils ne purent rien répondre à cela.

  They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 14:6

• Parfois, ce sont les petits riens qui font la différence, des initiatives qui n ' exigent pas que l ' on passe par un consultant ni qu ' on dépense beaucoup d ' argent mais qui néanmoins changent le quotidien.

  Wheelbarrows 48. Sometimes it is the little things that make a difference; acts that don ' t require a consultancy or large amounts of funding but nonetheless impact the daily lives of women.

  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 17736616

• Cela ne me dit rien.

  That doesn't ring a bell.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · #2276912 #8939441

More sentences

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

• On a rien sans rien.

  No pain, no gain.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Zifre · checked, community translation · #18370 #1234109

• Je te promets que je n'y suis pour rien.

  I promise you that I'm not responsible for this.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and tieguy · checked, community translation · #11671397 #10648724

• Cela ne sert à rien de lui demander de l'aide.

  It's no use asking him for help.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mrlem and CK · checked, community translation · #285087 #428901

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