souvent — French to English

How French souvent is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: souvent (127 859), souventes (1). By style: everyday 1 381 · literary 47 · biblical 17 · parliamentary 14 628 · legal and administrative 2 795 · UN documents 108 992.

often

Used about 90 011 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 208 · literary ≈ 39 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 10 971 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 154 · UN documents ≈ 75 627). Meaning: often in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le voyez-vous souvent ?

  Do you see him often?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · #284964 #8687485

• --Je dis plus souvent.

  “I say more often.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11489

• Judas, qui le livrait, connaissait ce lieu, parce que Jésus et ses disciples s’y étaient souvent réunis.

  Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 18:2

• Ce problème est souvent négligé.

  This problem is often neglected.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1366997

• Souvent appliquée en association avec la MTD 141 a).

  It is often applied in combination with BAT 141(a)

  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 3831465

many

Used about 9 209 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 305 · UN documents ≈ 8 897). Meaning: many in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Cosette connaissait le chemin pour l'avoir fait bien souvent le jour.

  Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times in daylight.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8272

• C’est ce qui m’a souvent empêché d’aller vers vous.

  Therefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 15:22

• Cette Constitution supprime l’indépendance des pays au profit d’un régime opaque poursuivant des objectifs qui, bien trop souvent, ne bénéficient pas du soutien de la population.

  This Constitution removes countries’ independence in favour of a non-transparent regime pursuing objectives that, in all too many cases, do not have grass-roots support.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 638376

• Le plus souvent ses recommandations restent sans suite.

  Many of its recommendations remain ignored.

  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 19900328

• J’ai souvent entendu pareilles choses; Vous êtes tous des consolateurs fâcheux.

  “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 16:2

frequently

Used about 6 077 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 58 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 219 · legal and administrative ≈ 349 · UN documents ≈ 4 449). Meaning: frequently in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Êtes-vous souvent enrhumé ?

  Do you frequently get colds?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and NurseMeeks · checked, community translation · #9850999 #9869865

• Il lui offrait donc souvent, au bar-room du Mongolia, quelques verres de whisky ou de pale-ale, que le brave garçon acceptait sans cérémonie et rendait même pour ne pas être en reste,--trouvant, d'ailleurs, ce Fix un gentleman bien honnête.

  He frequently offered him a glass of whiskey or pale ale in the steamer bar-room, which Passepartout never failed to accept with graceful alacrity, mentally pronouncing Fix the best of good fellows.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 544

• Nous devons également améliorer les normes administratives et professionnelles turques, qui sont souvent cruellement inadéquates.

  We also need to improve administrative and professional standards in Turkey which are frequently woefully inadequate.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1883643

• Estrilda quartinia (souvent commercialisée sous Estrilda melanotis)

  Estrilda quartinia (Frequently traded as Estrilda melanotis)

  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 1838144

• Le rôle de la liberté de religion ou de conviction dans les conflits entre les droits est complexe et souvent mal compris.

  21. The role of freedom of religion or belief within related conflicts is complex and is frequently misunderstood.

  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 27084286

more

Used about 2 835 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 610 · UN documents ≈ 2 224). Meaning: more in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ce qui en sort le plus souvent, ce sont des condamnations faites d'avance.

  Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely to be the result.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5800

• En revanche, les conflits au sein d'un même État se produisent de plus en plus souvent.

  Instead, intra-state conflicts are becoming ever more common.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1848008

• Plus récemment, en novembre, nous avons publié un rapport sur un sujet souvent négligé dans les recherches, le volontariat dans les situations d ' urgence.

  More recently, in November, we produced a report on the underresearched topic of volunteering in emergencies.

  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 23774398

• Il s' avère en fin de compte que c'est le visage modéré du conservatisme qui l' a le plus souvent emporté sur son aspect plus idéologique, et inacceptable.

  As it turns out, the moderate face of conservatism has for the most part prevailed over the more ideological and unacceptable one.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 105939

than

Used about 306 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 305). Meaning: than in the Elamur Dictionary.

• M. Madeleine, qui ne riait pas beaucoup plus souvent que Javert, se mit à rire.

  M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than Javert himself, burst out laughing now:—

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4607

• Les filles entrent moins souvent qu'autrefois en contact avec des sites pornographiques, et elles n'ont qu'une vague expérience de la pornographie en ligne.

  Fewer girls come in contact with porn sites than they once did, and they take a dim view of porn on the Net.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1147893

More sentences

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

• Nos doutes sont des traîtres. Ils nous privent de ce que nous pourrions souvent gagner de bon, parce que nous avons peur d'essayer.

  Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #6806209 #6806212

• Le temps change très souvent à cette période de l'année.

  The weather is very changeable at this time of year.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Archibald and sundown · checked, community translation · #10903654 #440245

• Je l'ai vu souvent ces derniers temps.

  I've seen a lot of him recently.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CH · checked, community translation · #1415959 #237259

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