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# finally — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: finally (68 451). By style: everyday 423 · literary 28 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 19 000 · legal and administrative 5 370 · UN documents 43 624.

## enfin

Used about 51 228 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 212 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 14 250 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 028 · UN documents ≈ 32 718).

- We're **finally** here.
  Nous sommes **enfin** là.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and genes1s · checked, community translation · [\#8341024](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8341024) [\#13350436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13350436))

- **Finally**, Marius opened the fourth letter.
  Marius ouvrit **enfin** la quatrième lettre.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15886)

- **Finally**, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
  **Enfin**, soyez tous animés des mêmes pensées et des mêmes sentiments, pleins d’amour fraternel, de compassion, d’humilité.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 3:8)

- **Finally**, on the subject of odours.
  Un mot **enfin** au sujet des parfums.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 449082)

- **Finally**, PI provides placement services for:
  **Enfin**, PI assure le placement des produits financiers et d’investissement suivants:
  ([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 1663729)

## finalement

Used about 6 597 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 194 · parliamentary ≈ 1 188 · legal and administrative ≈ 671 · UN documents ≈ 4 544).

- They have **finally** given in.
  Ils ont **finalement** cédé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8855801](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8855801) [\#11689737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11689737))

- I welcome the fact that the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism has **finally** managed to find a modus vivendi.
  Je me félicite de ce que la commission des transports ait **finalement** réussi à trouver un modus vivendi.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 342097)

- Germany's reply was **finally** received in the Commission on 19 March.
  Cette réponse est **finalement** arrivée par courrier du 19 mars 2003.
  ([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 789946)

- The protest **finally** ended peacefully in the night.
  La manifestation s &apos; est **finalement** achevée dans le calme la nuit venue.
  ([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 23243894)

- The train **finally** arrived.
  Le train arriva **finalement**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#326208](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/326208) [\#1339077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1339077))

## More sentences

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

- He **finally** made money.
  Il a fini par faire de l'argent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#39880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/39880) [\#4696076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4696076))

- I **finally** gave up.
  J'ai fini par laisser tomber.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2326524](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2326524) [\#2422801](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2422801))

- **Finally**, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
  Au reste, fortifiez-vous dans le Seigneur, et par sa force toute-puissante.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 6:10)

## 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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