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# clearly — English to French

How English *clearly* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: clearly (90 645). By style: everyday 173 · literary 8 · biblical 7 · parliamentary 19 095 · legal and administrative 9 253 · UN documents 62 109.

## clairement

Used about 44 582 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 8 752 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 976 · UN documents ≈ 29 761).

- Tom is **clearly** lost.
  Tom est **clairement** perdu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2273070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2273070) [\#4851428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4851428))

- Even before the stranger had so **clearly** manifested his interest in Cosette, Thénardier had divined his purpose.
  Avant même que l'inconnu manifestât si **clairement** son intérêt pour Cosette, le Thénardier l'avait deviné.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9081)

- At about the ninth hour of the day, he **clearly** saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
  Vers la neuvième heure du jour, il vit **clairement** dans une vision un ange de Dieu qui entra chez lui, et qui lui dit: Corneille!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 10:3)

- Have you replied **clearly**?
  Avez-vous répondu **clairement**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 803392)

- Such decision shall **clearly** identify:
  Cette décision indique **clairement**:
  ([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 1342242)

## bien

Used about 5 276 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 3 580 · legal and administrative ≈ 386 · UN documents ≈ 1 294).

- I remember my childhood **clearly**.
  Je me souviens très **bien** de mon enfance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eeyinn and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4025356](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4025356) [\#4025463](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4025463))

- While he was dressing he appraised, weighed, and summed up the agitations of the past day, trying to bring out quite **clearly** and fully their real and occult causes, those personal to himself as well as those from outside.
  Il appréciait, pesait et résumait, en s'habillant, ses émotions de la veille, cherchant à en dégager **bien** nettement et bien complètement les causes réelles, secrètes, les causes personnelles en même temps que les causes extérieures.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 796)

- Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke **clearly**.
  Aussitôt ses oreilles s’ouvrirent, sa langue se délia, et il parla très **bien**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 7:35)

- Everything will depend, quite **clearly**, on the Yugoslav response.
  Tout dépendra, **bien** évidemment, de la réponse yougoslave.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1983696)

- The Child Restraint System, except the strap(s) or harness, shall be marked **clearly** and indelibly with the year of production.
  Le dispositif de retenue pour enfants, à l’exclusion de la (des) sangle(s) ou du harnais, doit porter, inscrite de manière **bien** lisible et indélébile, l’année de fabrication.
  ([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 5523999)

## doivent

Used about 4 460 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 578 · UN documents ≈ 3 882).

- The Commission considers that the national (or regional) authorities have to define the SGEI **clearly** and entrust it to a particular undertaking.
  La Commission considère que les autorités nationales (ou régionales) **doivent** définir précisément le SIEG et le confier à une entreprise donnée.
  ([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 3146783)

- These documents must **clearly** state the facts in respect of which they are issued and the date on which the events occurred.
  Ces actes **doivent** renfermer l &apos; indication précise des faits pour lesquels ils sont délivrés et la date de ces faits.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 29465753)

- They shall be **clearly** legible and situated in the lower area of the tyre on at least one of its side walls, except for the inscription mentioned in paragraph 3.1.1 above.
  Elles **doivent** être nettement lisibles et situées dans la zone basse du pneumatique sur au moins un des flancs, à l'exception de l'inscription mentionnée au paragraphe 3.1.1 ci-dessus.
  ([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 5447980)

- The marks and symbols referred to in paragraphs 4.2.1. and 4.2.2. shall be **clearly** legible and indelible even when the headlamp is mounted on the vehicle.
  Les marques et symboles mentionnés aux paragraphes 4.2.1. et 4.2.2. **doivent** être nettement lisibles et indélébiles, même lorsque le projecteur est monté sur le véhicule.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9360334)

- The area or areas reserved for recording the periods referred to in point 1 must be so marked that it is possible to distinguish **clearly** between the various periods of time.
  La ou les zones réservées à l’enregistrement des temps visées au point 1 **doivent** porter les mentions nécessaires pour pouvoir distinguer sans ambiguïté les différentes périodes de temps.
  ([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 3257310)

## More sentences

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

- I'm **clearly** convinced of your innocence.
  Je suis pleinement convaincu de ton innocence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cuc and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11314682](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11314682) [\#11313001](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11313001))

- His bitterness kept him from thinking **clearly**.
  Son fiel l'empêchait de réfléchir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#14098370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14098370) [\#14098363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14098363))

- Tom **clearly** doesn't understand what we're talking about.
  Tom ne comprend manifestement pas ce dont nous sommes en train de parler.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#5655324](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5655324) [\#5656804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5656804))

## 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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