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# except — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: except (70 150), excepts (21). By style: everyday 168 · literary 39 · biblical 83 · parliamentary 1 264 · legal and administrative 22 952 · UN documents 45 665.

## sauf

Used about 18 482 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 63 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 395 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 260 · UN documents ≈ 12 759).

- Everyone knows **except** you.
  Tout le monde le sait, **sauf** toi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11136619](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11136619) [\#11136777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11136777))

- "Nothing, **except** a little pain in the ears."
  —-Aucunement, **sauf** quelques douleurs d'oreilles.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2177)

- I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, **except** for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
  Mais je vous dis que celui qui répudie sa femme, **sauf** pour infidélité, et qui en épouse une autre, commet un adultère.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 19:9)

- They were all rejected **except** for one.
  Ils ont tous été refusés, **sauf** un.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1648037)

- (**Except** for the subspecies included in Annex A)
  (**sauf** les sous-espèces inscrites à l’annexe A)
  ([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 1513204)

## excepté

Used about 17 109 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 42 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 474 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 173 · UN documents ≈ 9 402). Forms: exception, excepté.

- I don't like anyone here **except** Tom.
  Je n'apprécie personne ici, **excepté** Tom.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#9431861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9431861) [\#11293643](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11293643))

- All were uncovered **except** the king.
  Tous étaient découverts, **excepté** le roi.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7334)

- I thank God that I baptized none of you **except** Crispus and Gaius,
  Je rends grâces à Dieu de ce que je n’ai baptisé aucun de vous, **excepté** Crispus et Gaïus,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 1:14)

- Third country nationals are not included in our action plan **except** as family members.
  Les citoyens des pays tiers ne font pas partie de notre plan d'action, **excepté** en tant que membres familiaux.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1874983)

- HU: Unbound **except** for CPC 63211.
  HU: Aucun engagement, à l'**exception** de CPC 63211.
  ([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 319142)

## More sentences

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

- Nothing is true **except** what isn't said.
  Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#2995383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2995383) [\#2995376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2995376))

- The kitchen table was bare **except** for a bowl of fruit.
  À part une coupe de fruits, la table de la cuisine était vide.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#4482901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4482901) [\#4484917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4484917))

- No one ever knew the true story **except** the three of us.
  Personne n'a jamais su la véritable histoire à part nous trois.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#28909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28909) [\#7236791](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7236791))

## 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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