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# otherwise — English to French

How English *otherwise* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: otherwise (61 826). By style: everyday 77 · literary 17 · biblical 11 · parliamentary 4 878 · legal and administrative 16 693 · UN documents 40 150.

## autrement

Used about 15 485 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 610 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 303 · UN documents ≈ 7 528).

- It's too easy **otherwise**.
  C’est trop facile, **autrement**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#12262148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12262148) [\#12261989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12261989))

- In many respects, he had set about deceiving himself **otherwise**.
  À plusieurs égards, il s'était mis à se tromper **autrement**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13631)

- For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. **Otherwise** your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
  Car le mari non-croyant est sanctifié par la femme, et la femme non-croyante est sanctifiée par le frère; **autrement**, vos enfants seraient impurs, tandis que maintenant ils sont saints.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 7:14)

- We cannot react **otherwise**.
  Nous ne pouvons pas réagir **autrement**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1085378)

- Apricots, **otherwise** prepared or preserved
  Abricots, **autrement** préparés ou conservés
  ([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 3967953)

## contraire

Used about 13 958 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 711 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 869 · UN documents ≈ 8 365).

- The data suggest **otherwise**.
  Les donnés suggèrent le **contraire**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Ricardo14 · checked, community translation · [\#5737931](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5737931) [\#8980273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8980273))

- **Otherwise**, I for one shall not be able to support this report.
  Dans le cas **contraire**, je ne serai pas en mesure, pour une fois, de soutenir ce rapport.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 682029)

- Its proceedings shall be confidential unless decided **otherwise**.
  Sauf décision **contraire**, ses délibérations sont confidentielles.
  ([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 18707)

- **Otherwise** the principle of subsidiarity applies.
  Dans le cas **contraire**, le principe de subsidiarité est appliqué.
  ([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 3775400)

- Nothing will persuade me **otherwise**.
  Rien ne me convaincra du **contraire**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8187241](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8187241) [\#11469237](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11469237))

## sinon

Used about 6 402 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 1 016 · legal and administrative ≈ 348 · UN documents ≈ 5 019).

- Let's go now. **Otherwise**, we'll be late.
  Allons-y maintenant. **Sinon**, nous serons en retard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#407070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/407070) [\#407072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/407072))

- **Otherwise** this would not make sense.
  **Sinon**, cela n'aurait pas de sens.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1954329)

- would not **otherwise** be classified in Tier 1 or Tier 2 in accordance with Article 94.
  **sinon**, ne seraient pas classés au niveau 1 ou au niveau 2 conformément à l'article 94.
  ([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 3214078)

- **Otherwise**, it would be better to consider deleting the paragraph.
  **Sinon**, il faudrait envisager de supprimer le paragraphe.
  ([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 3765454)

- Be quiet, **otherwise** the teacher will catch us!
  Tais-toi, **sinon** la prof va nous surprendre !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13931844](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13931844) [\#13931849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13931849))

## sauf

Used about 2 228 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 391 · UN documents ≈ 836).

- The provisions of this Annex apply to the fallback procedure unless **otherwise** specifically stated hereafter.
  Les dispositions de cette annexe s'appliquent à la procédure de secours **sauf** dispositions contraires énoncées ci-après.
  ([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 52539)

- Notice period for collective labour agreements is three months unless **otherwise** provided for in the agreements.
  Le délai de préavis d &apos; une convention collective est de trois mois, **sauf** dispositions contraires prévues dans la convention.
  ([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 18979487)

- .1 Except as **otherwise** permitted by this paragraph, no oil fuel with a flashpoint of less than 60 °C shall be used.
  .1 Aucun combustible liquide dont le point d'éclair est inférieur à 60 °C ne peut être utilisé, **sauf** dans les cas prévus par le présent point.
  ([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 1750667)

- The applicant must have the professional competencies and qualifications required to complete the proposed action or work programme unless specifically provided **otherwise** in the basic act.
  Il doit disposer des compétences et qualifications professionnelles requises pour mener à bien l’action ou le programme de travail proposés, **sauf** disposition spécifique de l’acte de base.
  ([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 2748250)

- The provisions of the above paragraphs 5.1 to 5.5 shall apply in addition to the particular specifications of the following paragraph 6, except where these particular specifications expressly provide **otherwise**.
  Les dispositions des paragraphes 5.1 à 5.5 s’appliquent en plus des prescriptions particulières du paragraphe 6 ci-après, **sauf** dispositions expressément contraires de ces mêmes prescriptions particulières.
  ([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 5468093)

## More sentences

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

- Hurry up, **otherwise** you'll be late for lunch.
  Dépêchez-vous ou vous serez en retard pour déjeuner.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Petro1 · checked, community translation · [\#19697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/19697) [\#9277](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9277))

- I couldn't do **otherwise**.
  Je n'ai eu d'autre choix que de le faire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mari36 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#288677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/288677) [\#130658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/130658))

- Now that I am a teacher, I think **otherwise**.
  Maintenant que je suis un professeur, je pense différemment.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#256932](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/256932) [\#394732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/394732))

## 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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