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# ever — English to French

How English *ever* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: ever (33 889), evers (33). By style: everyday 1 736 · literary 58 · biblical 61 · parliamentary 7 354 · legal and administrative 493 · UN documents 24 220.

## jamais

Used about 11 920 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 013 · literary ≈ 19 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 2 605 · legal and administrative ≈ 101 · UN documents ≈ 8 174).

- When will you **ever** learn?
  Quand apprendrez-vous **jamais** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by BlueLagoon and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#478573](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/478573) [\#553200](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/553200))

- No one has **ever** discovered to what this monologue referred.
  On n'a **jamais** su à quoi avait trait ce monologue.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20502)

- The officers answered, “No man **ever** spoke like this man!”
  Les huissiers répondirent: **Jamais** homme n’a parlé comme cet homme.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 7:46)

- Can Community institutions **ever** make it?
  Les institutions de la Communauté pourront-elles **jamais** le faire ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 111510)

- No audit of this system **ever** took place.
  Aucun audit de ce système n'a **jamais** eu lieu.
  ([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 4349613)

## evers

Used about 9 698 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 10 · UN documents ≈ 9 688).

- Dr Marie Pauline **EVERS**.
  Dr Marie Pauline **EVERS**.
  ([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 1683931)

- Ms. Karin **Evers**-Meyer
  Ms. Karin **Evers**-Meyer
  ([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 14854345)

- **Evers**, B., and B. Walters (2000).
  **Evers**, B. and B. Walters (2000).
  ([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 20034929)

- Barrientos, S., and B. **Evers** (2014).
  Barrientos, S., et **Evers** B. (2014).
  ([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 28779834)

- \[6\] Ende, H.P. and F.H. **Evers**. 1997.
  \[6\] Ende, H.P., et F.H. **Evers**. 1997.
  ([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 5076143)

## More sentences

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

- I thought I'd lost you for **ever**.
  Je croyais t'avoir perdue pour toujours.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Gaeiie · checked, community translation · [\#11858710](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11858710) [\#8165916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8165916))

- This might be the last time we **ever** see each other.
  Cela pourrait être la dernière fois que l'on se voit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4013939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4013939) [\#5359061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5359061))

- The fact that no one **ever** moves in makes the community more and more insular.
  La communauté devient toujours plus insulaire car personne ne vient emménager.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9040904](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9040904) [\#9042932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9042932))

## 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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