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# often — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: often (113 258). By style: everyday 1 397 · literary 46 · biblical 38 · parliamentary 13 443 · legal and administrative 2 494 · UN documents 95 840.

## souvent

Used about 97 696 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 310 · literary ≈ 39 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 12 603 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 870 · UN documents ≈ 81 863).

- Do you go there **often**?
  Y vas-tu **souvent** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FiRez and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#1824782](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1824782) [\#2811798](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2811798))

- “I say more **often**.”
  --Je dis plus **souvent**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11489)

- Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus **often** met there with his disciples.
  Judas, qui le livrait, connaissait ce lieu, parce que Jésus et ses disciples s’y étaient **souvent** réunis.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 18:2)

- This region has **often** been dominated by foreign powers.
  Cette région a **souvent** été dominée par des pouvoirs étrangers.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1281133)

- Response time is slow, and **often** inappropriate.
  Les réponses sont lentes et **souvent** mal adaptées à la situation.
  ([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 885920)

## sont

Used about 2 208 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 3 · legal and administrative ≈ 208 · UN documents ≈ 1 997).

- Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as **often** as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says the LORD.
  Éphraïm est-il donc pour moi un fils chéri, Un enfant qui fait mes délices? Car plus je parle de lui, plus encore son souvenir est en moi; Aussi mes entrailles **sont** émues en sa faveur: J’aurai pitié de lui, dit 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 · JER 31:20)

- In addition, the goods are **often** not packed, marked or labelled in accordance with the ADR.
  De plus, ces marchandises **sont** rarement emballées, marquées ou étiquetées conformément à l'ADR.
  ([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 3494858)

- There are police reports on missing women and children, but they are most **often** located in Bhutan.
  Cependant il existe des rapports de police sur la disparition des femmes et des enfants; mais la plupart de temps, ils **sont** retrouvés au Bhoutan.
  ([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 16941501)

- “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How **often** I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
  Jérusalem, Jérusalem, qui tues les prophètes et qui lapides ceux qui te **sont** envoyés, combien de fois ai-je voulu rassembler tes enfants, comme une poule rassemble sa couvée sous ses ailes, et vous ne l’avez pas voulu!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 13:34)

- “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How **often** I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
  Jérusalem, Jérusalem, qui tues les prophètes et qui lapides ceux qui te **sont** envoyés, combien de fois ai-je voulu rassembler tes enfants, comme une poule rassemble ses poussins sous ses ailes, et vous ne l’avez pas voulu!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 23:37)

## More sentences

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

- "Quod erat demonstrandum" is a Latin expression **often** used in mathematics, which means "that which was to be demonstrated."
  « Quod erat demonstrandum » est une expression latine très utilisée dans les mathématiques qui signifie « ce qu'il fallait démontrer ».
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CarpeLanam and alexmarcelo · checked, community translation · [\#6800200](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6800200) [\#1567816](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1567816))

- Tom **often** gets teased at school.
  Tom subit du harcèlement scolaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#8370153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8370153) [\#13954503](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13954503))

- This **often** happened in winter.
  C'est beaucoup arrivé pendant l'hiver.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#12316473](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12316473) [\#8485690](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8485690))

## 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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