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# nearly — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: nearly (23 075). By style: everyday 148 · literary 25 · biblical 3 · parliamentary 1 832 · legal and administrative 626 · UN documents 20 441.

## presque

Used about 18 746 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 89 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 221 · legal and administrative ≈ 378 · UN documents ≈ 17 034). Forms: presque, près.

- I'm **nearly** ready.
  Je suis **presque** prêt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#7114494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7114494) [\#640044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/640044))

- “**Nearly** seven good leagues.”
  --**Près** de sept grandes lieues.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5609)

- According to the law, **nearly** everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
  Et **presque** tout, d’après la loi, est purifié avec du sang, et sans effusion de sang il n’y a pas de pardon.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 9:22)

- I am sure that **nearly** all the Member States are going to do so.
  Je suis sûr que **presque** tous les États vont envoyer la leur.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1797804)

- Fine, white, **nearly** odourless, crystalline powder
  Fine poudre cristalline de couleur blanche, **presque** inodore
  ([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 2596646)

## millions

Used about 13 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 13).

- According to the report, the share of digital terrestrial television has considerably increased: 3,6 million households use DVB-T, **nearly** twice as many as in the preceding year.
  Selon le rapport, la part de la télévision numérique hertzienne a considérablement augmenté: 3,6 **millions** de ménages, soit quasiment le double par rapport à l'année précédente, captent la DVB-T.
  ([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 1393815)

## More sentences

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

- It's **nearly** impossible.
  C'est pratiquement impossible.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1871837](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1871837) [\#2040972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2040972))

- She was **nearly** hit by a bicycle.
  Elle a failli être heurtée par un vélo.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by blay\_paul and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#482501](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/482501) [\#3642517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3642517))

- I **nearly** missed the bus.
  J'ai failli rater le bus.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6866258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6866258) [\#11759035](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759035))

## 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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