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# itself — English to French

How English *itself* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: itself (97 114). By style: everyday 159 · literary 76 · biblical 39 · parliamentary 17 167 · legal and administrative 7 389 · UN documents 72 284.

## même

Used about 20 758 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 56 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 1 788 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 309 · UN documents ≈ 16 565).

- The candle went out by **itself**.
  La bougie s'éteignit d'elle-**même**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by human600 and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#29466](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/29466) [\#338263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/338263))

- Power **itself** is often a faction.
  Souvent le pouvoir lui-**même** est une faction.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18228)

- If a kingdom is divided against **itself**, that kingdom cannot stand.
  Si un royaume est divisé contre lui-**même**, ce royaume ne peut subsister;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 3:24)

- Yet the way the European Union **itself** uses it is both unclear and even irrational.
  D'autre part, l'Union européenne elle-**même** l'utilise de manière peu claire et même irrationnelle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 136237)

- Without that compensation, Correos would have to bear those costs **itself**.
  Sans cette compensation, Correos devrait supporter ces coûts par elle-**même**.
  ([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 4791849)

## elle

Used about 7 285 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 073 · legal and administrative ≈ 154 · UN documents ≈ 6 024).

- Just pull the door shut. It'll lock by **itself**.
  Pousse juste la porte. **Elle** se verrouille toute seule.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#646044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/646044) [\#811273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/811273))

- It was rallying, but hiding **itself**.
  **Elle** se ralliait, mais se dérobait.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7101)

- He shall not eat that which dies of **itself** or is torn by animals, defiling himself by it. I am the LORD.
  Il ne mangera point d’une bête morte ou déchirée, afin de ne pas se souiller par **elle**. Je suis l’Éternel.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 22:8)

- However, in **itself** it does not constitute a European solution.
  Mais **elle** ne constitue pas en soi une solution européenne.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 44571)

- The latter was concerned that the — allegedly loss-making — Nürburgring 2009 project puts the activities of the racetrack **itself** into jeopardy.
  Cette association affirmait craindre que le projet Nürburgring 2009, qui était d'après **elle** déficitaire, menace l'exploitation effective du circuit.
  ([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 3791276)

## mais

Used about 6 750 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 715 · UN documents ≈ 6 024).

- Pleasure is not bad in **itself**, but certain pleasures bring more pain than pleasure.
  Le plaisir n'est pas un mal en soi, **mais** certains plaisirs apportent plus de peine que de plaisir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1743502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1743502) [\#1290520](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1290520))

- Human thought discovers a mode of perpetuating **itself**, not only more durable and more resisting than architecture, but still more simple and easy.
  La pensée humaine découvre un moyen de se perpétuer non seulement plus durable et plus résistant que l'architecture, **mais** encore plus simple et plus facile.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2680)

- and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by **itself**.
  et le linge qu’on avait mis sur la tête de Jésus, non pas avec les bandes, **mais** plié dans un lieu à part.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 20:7)

- Liberalisation can sometimes be a means to achieving this, but never an end in **itself**.
  La libéralisation peut parfois être un moyen d'y parvenir **mais** ne représente jamais un but en soi.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 407661)

- The strengthening and reform of the institutional framework should not be an end in **itself**, but a means to achieve sustainable development.
  Le renforcement et la réforme du dispositif institutionnel ne devraient pas être une fin en eux-mêmes **mais** un moyen de parvenir au développement durable.
  ([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 25668883)

## lui

Used about 4 612 times in the texts (literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 3 219 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 385).

- This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die **itself**.
  Ce puits, où burent tant de morts, devait mourir **lui** aussi.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6788)

- The price of oil shale **itself**, however, has not risen.
  Le prix du schiste bitumeux **lui**-même n’a toutefois pas augmenté.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 723287)

- This is the case even if the contract **itself** is an equity instrument.
  C’est le cas même si le contrat **lui**-même est un instrument de capitaux propres.
  ([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 1792388)

- We are not of the number of those who flatter war; when the occasion presents **itself**, we tell the truth about it.
  Nous ne sommes pas de ceux qui flattent la guerre; quand l'occasion s'en présente, nous **lui** disons ses vérités.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7641)

- This decision will be made at a later stage as recognised by the report **itself** in Paragraph 6.
  C'est une décision qui sera prise plus tard, comme le reconnaît le rapport **lui**-même, au paragraphe 6.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 28481)

## More sentences

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

- The deer was running by **itself**.
  Le cerf courait seul.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#264910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/264910) [\#413806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/413806))

- The tree fell down by **itself**.
  L'arbre est tombé tout seul.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mifonto · checked, community translation · [\#43796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43796) [\#1833782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1833782))

- He was patience **itself**.
  Il était la patience personnifiée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aandrusiak and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#301355](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/301355) [\#132921](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132921))

## Grammar

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