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# almost — English to French

How English *almost* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [almost in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/almost/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: almost (49 380), almosts (1). By style: everyday 964 · literary 127 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 7 141 · legal and administrative 2 128 · UN documents 39 015.

## presque

Used about 36 430 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 823 · literary ≈ 111 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 868 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 552 · UN documents ≈ 30 074). Forms: presque, près.

- You **almost** had me.
  Tu m'as **presque** eu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3722614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3722614) [\#11928404](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11928404))

- He **almost** trembled lest she should want him.
  Il tremblait **presque** qu'elle ne voulût de lui.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1446)

- The next Sabbath, **almost** the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God.
  Le sabbat suivant, **presque** toute la ville se rassembla pour entendre la parole de Dieu.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 13:44)

- It is **almost** too good to be true.
  C’est **presque** trop beau pour être vrai.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 658258)

- White or **almost** white hygroscopic powder.
  Poudre hygroscopique blanche ou **presque** blanche.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2824218)

## More sentences

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

- Paid maternity leave is a benefit available in **almost** all countries, except the United States.
  Le congé maternité est une indemnité disponible dans la plupart des pays, à l'exception des États-Unis d'Amérique.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4870436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4870436) [\#4884206](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4884206))

- The molecule's complexity makes its synthesis **almost** impossible.
  La complexité de la molécule rend sa synthèse quasiment impossible.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and alexisslay · checked, community translation · [\#12927286](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12927286) [\#5361164](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5361164))

- I **almost** had a canary!
  J'ai failli faire une crise cardiaque !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13825924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13825924) [\#13825929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13825929))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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