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# simply — English to French

How English *simply* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: simply (34 191). By style: everyday 105 · literary 20 · parliamentary 13 561 · legal and administrative 1 989 · UN documents 18 516.

## simplement

Used about 17 397 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 77 · literary ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 6 215 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 450 · UN documents ≈ 9 644).

- That's **simply** wrong.
  C'est **simplement** faux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#5486533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5486533) [\#5487082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5487082))

- And she went on **simply**:
  Elle reprit alors **simplement**:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 301)

- It is quite **simply** splendid.
  C'est tout **simplement** remarquable.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 498286)

- Natural cork, raw or **simply** prepared
  Liège naturel brut ou **simplement** préparé
  ([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 340455)

- We **simply** should not do that.
  Nous ne devrions tout **simplement** pas le faire.
  ([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 20050116)

## More sentences

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

- I'm **simply** doing my job.
  Je ne fais que mon travail.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2545920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2545920) [\#1041398](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1041398))

- Trials can teach us many things. And much more than **simply** words.
  Les peines peuvent nous apprendre beaucoup de choses. Et beaucoup plus que les mots.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slivercat and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#885279](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/885279) [\#802482](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/802482))

- Not being useful to anyone is **simply** being worthless.
  C'est proprement ne valoir rien que de n'être utile à personne.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1152218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1152218) [\#1073519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1073519))

## 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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