seul — French to English

How French seul 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: seul (85 466), seule (72 057), seules (24 473), seuls (36 833). By style: everyday 3 302 · literary 148 · biblical 323 · parliamentary 28 163 · legal and administrative 31 359 · UN documents 155 534.

only

Used about 130 922 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 946 · literary ≈ 41 · biblical ≈ 62 · parliamentary ≈ 19 362 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 213 · UN documents ≈ 88 298). Meaning: only in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Vous êtes mon seul espoir.

  You're my only hope.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petrus and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #4463702 #4470307

• C'est le seul oiseau qui soutienne sa cage.

  It is the only bird which bears up its own cage.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14831

• Ou bien, est-ce que moi seul et Barnabas nous n’avons pas le droit de ne point travailler?

  Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 9:6

• C'est le seul moyen d'y parvenir.

  That is the only way to do it.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1372519

• Un seul essai suffit.

  Only one test is necessary.

  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 5417918

single

Used about 21 688 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52 · literary ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 1 173 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 430 · UN documents ≈ 17 012). Meaning: single in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tom est de nouveau seul.

  Tom is single again.

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

• Mr. Fogg n'avait encore ni gagné ni perdu un seul jour.

  Mr. Fogg had neither gained nor lost a single day.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2036

• Il n'existe même pas une seule étude quantitative pour étayer ces élucubrations.

  There is not a single quantitative study to support its curious claims.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1973041

• Il existe un seul budget composé de deux chapitres:

  There shall be one single budget comprising two sections:

  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 216875

• Une seule étape avec un engagement complet

  Single-stage with complete commitment upon decision

  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 19630799

alone

Used about 18 844 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 651 · literary ≈ 66 · biblical ≈ 62 · parliamentary ≈ 2 640 · legal and administrative ≈ 653 · UN documents ≈ 13 771). Meaning: alone in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tu n'es pas seule.

  You're not alone.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and CK · checked, community translation · #1895592 #3226778

• Marius se retrouva seul.

  Marius found himself alone.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16593

• Seul, il étend les cieux, Il marche sur les hauteurs de la mer.

  He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 9:8

• Dans les seules eaux suédoises, ces opérations de délestage interviennent par centaines.

  In Swedish waters alone, there are hundreds of these each year.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 21553

• Il s'ensuit que les capacités inutilisées de cette société représentent à elles seules plus de la moitié de la consommation de l'Union.

  It follows that the spare capacity of this company alone is more than half the Union consumption.

  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 4244580

one

Used about 12 646 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 86 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 156 · parliamentary ≈ 880 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 797 · UN documents ≈ 9 721). Meaning: one in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il ne me reste plus qu'un seul bonbon.

  I've got just one sweet left.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · #11147186 #11151440

• À cela une seule réponse: Jadis.

  To this there is but one reply: “In former days.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10956

• il y a un seul Seigneur, une seule foi, un seul baptême,

  one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 4:5

• Une seule Europe comme cadre de notre collaboration de demain dans l'intérêt de tous.

  One Europe as a framework for future cooperation that benefits everyone.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 347001

• Un député ne peut appartenir qu’à un seul groupe politique.

  A Member may not belong to more than one political group.

  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 4878633

More sentences

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

• Je suis très seul ici.

  I'm very lonely here.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by narnar and CK · checked, community translation · #5652573 #5653067

• Je me demande si Tom est encore seul.

  I wonder if Tom is still lonely.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zarisi and CK · checked, community translation · #6346887 #8352737

• Je me sens si seul.

  I feel so lonely.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2549389 #7438462

Grammar

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