seule — French to English

How French seule 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: seule (72 057), seules (24 473). By style: everyday 1 300 · literary 60 · biblical 58 · parliamentary 13 863 · legal and administrative 13 665 · UN documents 67 584.

only

Used about 60 721 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 379 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 9 242 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 537 · UN documents ≈ 41 536). Meaning: only in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je ne les ai rencontrées qu'une seule fois.

  I met them only once.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Whidou and CH · checked, community translation · #3912075 #4551975

• Mais Javert, attentif à sa seule pensée, continua:

  But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:—

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4754

• Et Dieu fit ainsi cette nuit-là. La toison seule resta sèche, et tout le terrain se couvrit de rosée.

  God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 6:40

• (HU) Je n'ai qu'une seule question.

  (HU) I have only one question.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1360282

• Une seule valeur doit être sélectionnée.

  Only one value can be selected.

  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 3656234

single

Used about 9 924 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 578 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 566 · UN documents ≈ 7 744). Meaning: single in the Elamur Dictionary.

• L'examen était très difficile, et je n'ai pas pu répondre à une seule question.

  The exam was very hard, and I couldn't answer a single question.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #7937161 #8538092

• Mlle Vaubois, parfaite en son genre, était l'hermine de la stupidité sans une seule tache d'intelligence.

  Mademoiselle Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a single spot of intelligence.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13095

• 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

• Ki peut être déterminé après exécution d'une seule séquence.

  Ki may be determined following the completion of a single sequence.

  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 5545640

• 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 8 018 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 636 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 444 · legal and administrative ≈ 285 · UN documents ≈ 5 632). 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

• --Est-ce que tu es seule?

  “Are you alone there?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8496

• Je dirai tes œuvres puissantes, Seigneur Éternel! Je rappellerai ta justice, la tienne seule.

  I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 71:16

• 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 5 025 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 42 · parliamentary ≈ 722 · legal and administrative ≈ 712 · UN documents ≈ 3 520). Meaning: one in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je suis un être humain et je considère toute l'humanité comme une seule famille.

  I am a human being, and I regard all of humanity as one family.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and shekitten · checked, community translation · #8764230 #8764268

• 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

• Une seule valeur des trois peut être inférieure à 35 J/cm2 et, en aucun cas, à 25 J/cm2.

  Not more than one of the three figures may be less than 35 J/cm2, with a minimum of 25 J/cm2.

  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 1766705

More sentences

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

• La fille se sent seule.

  The girl is lonely.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #44394 #6463435

• Tom a dit qu'il croyait que Mary était seule.

  Tom said he thought Mary was lonely.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · #6436235 #6461689

• C'est ma seule préoccupation.

  That's my sole concern.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · #42050 #10315112

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