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# least — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: least (222 553). By style: everyday 427 · literary 60 · biblical 33 · parliamentary 17 053 · legal and administrative 47 017 · UN documents 157 963.

## moins

Used about 195 416 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 374 · literary ≈ 43 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 11 369 · legal and administrative ≈ 42 119 · UN documents ≈ 141 509).

- At **least** we had fun.
  Au **moins**, on s'est bien amusés.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Lumpawurump · checked, community translation · [\#3428510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3428510) [\#10931237](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10931237))

- “Thirty sous at **least**.”
  --Au **moins** trente sous.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8676)

- If to others I am not an apostle, yet at **least** I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
  Si pour d’autres je ne suis pas apôtre, je le suis au **moins** pour vous; car vous êtes le sceau de mon apostolat dans le Seigneur.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 9:2)

- Once again, that is the **least** it can do.
  Là aussi, c'est bien le **moins**!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1152356)

- at **least** 6 GPS satellites;
  Au **moins** 6 satellites GPS
  ([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 4243495)

## pays

Used about 4 357 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 066 · UN documents ≈ 3 291).

- It is important to encourage this will, not **least** among the applicant countries.
  Il est important d'encourager cette volonté, notamment chez les **pays** candidats.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1783866)

- Each year between 2004 and 2007, about a quarter of the **least** developed countries, mostly oil- or mineral-exporting countries, achieved annual growth of more than 7 per cent.
  De 2004 à 2007, environ le quart des PMA, principalement les **pays** exportateurs de pétrole ou de minéraux, ont enregistré une croissance de plus de 7 % par an.
  ([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 20026372)

- We learned a great deal from that visit, not **least** that the applicant countries will make a tremendous contribution to the cultural life and vitality of Europe.
  Cette visite nous a appris énormément de choses, notamment que les **pays** candidats apporteront une contribution énorme à la vie et la vitalité culturelle de l'Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 295888)

- Thus we cannot be indifferent to what is happening in candidate countries, **least** of all to events that affect our shared democratic values.
  Nous ne pouvons donc rester indifférents aux événements qui se produisent dans les **pays** candidats, et surtout pas aux événements qui ont un impact sur nos valeurs démocratiques communes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1083309)

## au

Used about 1 707 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 711 · legal and administrative ≈ 980).

- Tom usually gets to work at **least** thirty minutes early.
  Tom arrive habituellement **au** travail trente minutes plus tôt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6944105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6944105) [\#6945599](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6945599))

- to whom they all listened, from the **least** to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”
  Tous, depuis le plus petit jusqu’**au** plus grand, l’écoutaient attentivement, et disaient: Celui-ci est la puissance de Dieu, celle qui s’appelle la grande.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 8:10)

- The European Union aid is vital, not **least** as a means of preventing the threat of an escalation of the political situation in Nicaragua.
  L'aide humanitaire de l'Union européenne est indispensable et ce, aussi pour éviter que la situation politique n'évolue dangereusement **au** Nicaragua.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1918168)

- A wholesale distributor shall keep detailed records of at **least** the following information in respect of each transaction:
  Un distributeur en gros tient un registre détaillé dans lequel il consigne **au** minimum, pour chaque transaction, les informations suivantes:
  ([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 4883802)

- “For from their **least** even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
  Car depuis le plus petit jusqu’**au** plus grand, Tous sont avides de gain; Depuis le prophète jusqu’au sacrificateur, Tous usent de tromperie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 6:13)

## More sentences

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

- And last but not **least**.
  Et pour couronner le tout.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by josivangoncalves and josivangoncalves · checked, community translation · [\#8222064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8222064) [\#8223709](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8223709))

- I'm not the **least** bit interested in physics.
  La physique ne m'intéresse pas du tout.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and franzmimm · checked, community translation · [\#6199519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6199519) [\#441971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/441971))

- I'm not the **least** bit tired.
  Je ne suis pas fatigué du tout.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#5438395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5438395) [\#135143](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135143))

## 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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