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# very — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: very (257 862). By style: everyday 7 200 · literary 391 · biblical 253 · parliamentary 96 493 · legal and administrative 9 876 · UN documents 143 649.

## très

Used about 165 595 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 000 · literary ≈ 98 · biblical ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 56 288 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 407 · UN documents ≈ 95 766).

- That's **very** nice.
  C'est **très** gentil.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2251318](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2251318) [\#4542950](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4542950))

- “Ah! ha! **very** good.
  --Ah! ah! **très** bien.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1722)

- “The LORD was **very** displeased with your fathers.
  L’Éternel a été **très** irrité contre vos pères.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ZEC 1:2)

- It was **very** comprehensive.
  Elle était **très** complète.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1152637)

- **Very**-high-frequency (VHF) radios
  Radios **très** haute fréquence (VHF)
  ([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 4505718)

## était

Used about 6 017 times in the texts (literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 16 · UN documents ≈ 5 985).

- Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was **very** great.
  Sous les apparentes similitudes de l'esprit extérieur, la différence entre Tholomyès et lui **était** grande.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14084)

- since he longed for you all, and was **very** troubled because you had heard that he was sick.
  Car il désirait vous voir tous, et il **était** fort en peine de ce que vous aviez appris sa maladie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 2:26)

- In the midst of the cold war, the East-West confrontation had posed a threat to its security and to its **very** survival.
  Le monde **était** alors plongé dans la guerre froide, et la confrontation Est-Ouest constituait une menace réelle pour la sécurité de l &apos; Italie.
  ([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 2132883)

- And, pointing out to the eldest the mat on which he was lying, a **very** thick and admirably made mat, he added:—
  Et montrant à l'aîné la natte sur laquelle il **était** couché, natte fort épaisse et admirablement travaillée, il ajouta:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20872)

- After this, Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of Israel. The same did **very** wickedly.
  Après cela, Josaphat, roi de Juda, s’associa avec le roi d’Israël, Achazia, dont la conduite **était** impie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 20:35)

## peu

Used about 441 times in the texts (literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 5 · legal and administrative ≈ 412).

- "Upon my word, this is a **very** clever hypothesis," I exclaimed, in spite rather of myself.
  —Mais voilà une ingénieuse hypothèse! m'écriai-je un **peu** malgré moi.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 527)

- For yet a **very** little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
  Mais, encore un **peu** de temps, Et le châtiment cessera, Puis ma colère se tournera contre lui pour l’anéantir.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 10:25)

- Pay TV and free TV service offerings are not **very** substitutable from the standpoint of demand.
  En effet, les offres de télévision payante et de télévision gratuite sont **peu** substituables du point de vue de la demande.
  ([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 1164055)

- But in a **very** short time, all these efforts at communal legislation fell into abeyance.
  Mais, en **peu** de temps, tous ces essais de législation communale tombèrent en désuétude.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7009)

- Internet usage for listening to web radio replaced listening to normal radio (**very** much; to some extent; not at all),
  utilisation de l’internet pour écouter la radio sur le web au lieu d’écouter la radio normale (beaucoup; un **peu**; pas du tout),
  ([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 1267144)

## More sentences

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

- I care about him **very** much.
  Je tiens beaucoup à lui.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#2908368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2908368) [\#7788087](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7788087))

- You have made the **very** same mistake again.
  Tu as de nouveau commis exactement la même erreur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#16421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16421) [\#469850](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/469850))

- I have enjoyed myself **very** much.
  Je me suis bien amusé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#436669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/436669) [\#14720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14720))

## 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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