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# just — English to French

How English *just* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: just (115 007). By style: everyday 5 526 · literary 196 · biblical 122 · parliamentary 43 961 · legal and administrative 1 647 · UN documents 63 555.

## juste

Used about 23 573 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 842 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 2 748 · legal and administrative ≈ 412 · UN documents ≈ 18 537).

- I'm **just** a little nervous.
  Je suis **juste** un peu nerveux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2544743](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2544743) [\#3184516](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3184516))

- Right is the **just** and the true.
  Le droit, c'est le **juste** et le vrai.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18054)

- “But if a man is **just**, and does that which is lawful and right,
  L’homme qui est **juste**, qui pratique la droiture et la justice,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 18:5)

- It was **just** a general remark.
  C'était **juste** une remarque générale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 496076)

- The hip joints are situated **just** below the pelvis.
  Les articulations des hanches sont situées **juste** sous le bassin.
  ([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 5559718)

## seulement

Used about 13 360 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 115 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 6 411 · legal and administrative ≈ 206 · UN documents ≈ 6 620).

- I **just** want to know if you love me.
  Je veux **seulement** savoir si tu m'aimes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4890620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4890620) [\#5366409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5366409))

- I **just** want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?
  Voici **seulement** ce que je veux apprendre de vous: Est-ce par les œuvres de la loi que vous avez reçu l’Esprit, ou par la prédication de la foi?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 3:2)

- There is a need for more than **just** organisation.
  Nous n'avons pas **seulement** besoin d'une réalité organisationnelle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 254603)

- The full rate should be counted, not **just** the premium element added to the normal hourly rate.
  Le montant total doit être pris en compte, et non pas **seulement** la rémunération additionnelle au salaire horaire normal.
  ([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 739368)

- She explained that Angola and Myanmar have **just** started preparing their NAPAs.
  Elle a expliqué que l &apos; Angola et le Myanmar viennent **seulement** de commencer l &apos; élaboration de leur PANA.
  ([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 19326370)

## tout

Used about 6 025 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 576 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 748 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 · UN documents ≈ 2 648).

- I **just** have to do something.
  Il me faut faire quelque chose, un point c'est **tout**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2064739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2064739) [\#2447717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2447717))

- “Monsieur le Maire, it is **just** five o’clock in the morning.”
  --Monsieur le maire, il est **tout** à l'heure cinq heures du matin.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5341)

- The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, **just** as it was told them.
  Et les bergers s’en retournèrent, glorifiant et louant Dieu pour **tout** ce qu’ils avaient entendu et vu, et qui était conforme à ce qui leur avait été annoncé.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 2:20)

- It is **just** as difficult as red tape but we are going to have both.
  C'est **tout** aussi compliqué que la paperasserie traditionnelle, mais le fait est que nous devrons faire face à ces deux obstacles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1440959)

- On the other hand, such development under the US measures could have **just** the opposite effects.
  D'autre part, une telle évolution dans le cadre des mesures américaines pourrait avoir l'effet **tout** à fait inverse.
  ([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 5013118)

## More sentences

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

- I **just** got the news.
  Je viens d'avoir les nouvelles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2362216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2362216) [\#2369371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2369371))

- I **just** followed your instructions.
  Je n'ai fait que suivre vos instructions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2362172](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2362172) [\#2369964](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2369964))

- We **just** found the murder weapon.
  Nous venons de trouver l'arme du crime.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5726737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5726737) [\#11940267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11940267))

## 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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