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# exist — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: exist (44 847), exists (23 466). By style: everyday 291 · literary 25 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 8 250 · legal and administrative 6 897 · UN documents 52 839.

## existe

Used about 28 049 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 227 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 3 781 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 664 · UN documents ≈ 20 365). Forms: existe, existent.

- I don't **exist**.
  Je n’**existe** pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#10162963](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10162963) [\#12416618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12416618))

- “Sunday **exists**,” resumed Fameuil.
  --Le dimanche **existe**, reprit Fameuil.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2955)

- Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who **exist** are ordained by God.
  Que toute personne soit soumise aux autorités supérieures; car il n’y a point d’autorité qui ne vienne de Dieu, et les autorités qui **existent** ont été instituées 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 · ROM 13:1)

- Thus the instrument already **exists** for this purpose.
  L'instrument **existe** donc déjà pour atteindre ce but.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1022493)

- Where an identifier **exists**.
  Si un tel identifiant **existe**.
  ([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 3990639)

## More sentences

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

- The hunter can not **exist** without the prey.
  Le chasseur ne peut exister sans la proie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sifaks and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#7219280](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7219280) [\#987143](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/987143))

- I am aware that I **exist**.
  Je suis la conscience de mon existence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10612109](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10612109) [\#10612131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10612131))

- You will **exist** but you will never know what it is to live.
  Tu existeras mais tu ne sauras jamais ce que c'est que de vivre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_Benedict\_1921 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#847183](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/847183) [\#1035549](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1035549))

## 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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