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# alone — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: alone (34 608), alones (2). By style: everyday 1 512 · literary 76 · biblical 104 · parliamentary 5 291 · legal and administrative 2 247 · UN documents 25 380.

## seul

Used about 15 474 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 260 · literary ≈ 65 · biblical ≈ 65 · parliamentary ≈ 2 535 · legal and administrative ≈ 889 · UN documents ≈ 10 660). Forms: seul, seule, seuls.

- I'm all **alone**.
  Je suis tout **seul**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#2247902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2247902) [\#6989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6989))

- Marius found himself **alone**.
  Marius se retrouva **seul**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16593)

- Let them be for yourself **alone**, not for strangers with you.
  Qu’ils soient pour toi **seul**, Et non pour des étrangers avec toi.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 5:17)

- But I cannot act **alone**.
  Mais je ne peux agir **seul**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 993088)

- if **alone**, as an observer or solely for information purposes.
  s'il est **seul**, qu'en tant qu'observateur ou uniquement à des fins d'information.
  ([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 3495982)

## More sentences

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

- Could you leave him **alone**? Tom's sick.
  Pourrais-tu le laisser tranquille ? Tom est malade.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by letsgolanguages and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#10797611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10797611) [\#7166966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7166966))

- Just leave me **alone**. You're pathetic.
  Fous-moi juste la paix ! Tu es pathétique !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#4606484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4606484) [\#4609015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4609015))

- I trust we're all **alone**.
  J'espère que nous sommes toutes seules.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2208445](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2208445) [\#2426957](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2426957))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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