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# nevertheless — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: nevertheless (49 070). By style: everyday 17 · literary 69 · biblical 67 · parliamentary 7 537 · legal and administrative 3 488 · UN documents 37 892.

## néanmoins

Used about 19 665 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 983 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 671 · UN documents ≈ 14 999).

- **Nevertheless**, I want to see her.
  **Néanmoins**, je désire la voir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#3259569](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259569) [\#3259568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259568))

- **Nevertheless** Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.
  Il sut **néanmoins** se contenir, et il alla chez lui. Puis il envoya chercher ses amis et Zéresch, sa femme.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EST 5:10)

- **Nevertheless**, I have two comments.
  **Néanmoins**, j'ai deux commentaires à faire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 892438)

- **Nevertheless** some items will be covered by retrofitting requirements.
  **Néanmoins**, certains points à contrôler relèvent des exigences d’adaptation.
  ([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 2039716)

- **Nevertheless**, many challenges still face the educational systems.
  **Néanmoins**, les systèmes d &apos; enseignement demeurent confrontés à de multiples difficultés.
  ([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 9238199)

## toutefois

Used about 11 060 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 570 · legal and administrative ≈ 799 · UN documents ≈ 8 684).

- **Nevertheless**, the topic is worth discussing.
  **Toutefois**, le sujet mérite d'être débattu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#42990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42990) [\#11274665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11274665))

- **Nevertheless**, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a point.
  **Toutefois**, dans l'après-midi, à un certain moment, la bataille se précisa.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6958)

- **Nevertheless**, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
  **Toutefois**, dans le Seigneur, la femme n’est point sans l’homme, ni l’homme sans la femme.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 11:11)

- **Nevertheless** we wanted to take a first step with our proposal.
  Nous entendions **toutefois** faire un premier pas avec notre proposition.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1965220)

- **Nevertheless**, the right of action shall not be extinguished if
  **Toutefois**, l’action n’est pas éteinte si:
  ([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 1314397)

## cependant

Used about 6 098 times in the texts (literary ≈ 29 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 314 · legal and administrative ≈ 218 · UN documents ≈ 5 526).

- **Nevertheless**, he was going thither.
  **Cependant** il y allait.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5395)

- **Nevertheless**, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
  **Cependant** je suis toujours avec toi, Tu m’as saisi la main droite;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 73:23)

- **Nevertheless**, the crisis in the Balkans has demonstrated the shortcomings of the European Union.
  **Cependant**, la crise dans les Balkans a mis en évidence les déficits de l'Union.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 65315)

- **Nevertheless**, a market economy investor would also take past performance into account.
  **Cependant**, un investisseur du marché tiendrait également compte des performances passées.
  ([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 856430)

- **Nevertheless**, we are introducing this amendment for the reasons I have just given.
  **Cependant**, nous présentons cette proposition sur la base des motifs déjà exposés.
  ([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 2560174)

## More sentences

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

- I was very tired, but I was **nevertheless** unable to sleep.
  J'étais très fatigué, mais j'étais quand même incapable de dormir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and melospawn · checked, community translation · [\#261396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/261396) [\#794419](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/794419))

- **Nevertheless**, many are choosing early retirement.
  Pourtant, nombreux sont ceux qui choisissent la retraite anticipée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and parquette · checked, community translation · [\#42993](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42993) [\#1023193](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1023193))

- It's just five in the morning, but **nevertheless** it is light out.
  Il n'est que 5h du matin, et pourtant il fait jour.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and ANH\_DAO · checked, community translation · [\#2062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2062) [\#3869](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3869))

## 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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