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# without — English to French

How English *without* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [without in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/without/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: without (353 878), withouts (2). By style: everyday 1 785 · literary 288 · biblical 246 · parliamentary 29 493 · legal and administrative 58 425 · UN documents 263 643.

## sans

Used about 291 884 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 636 · literary ≈ 258 · biblical ≈ 133 · parliamentary ≈ 24 578 · legal and administrative ≈ 43 819 · UN documents ≈ 221 460).

- I'll leave **without** him.
  Je partirai **sans** lui.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7051167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7051167) [\#2842091](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2842091))

- It was a blue day **without** a breath of wind.
  C'était un jour bleu, **sans** un souffle d'air.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1187)

- Do all things **without** complaining and arguing,
  Faites toutes choses **sans** murmures ni hésitations,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 2:14)

- There can be no freedom **without** security.
  Il ne peut y avoir de liberté **sans** sécurité.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 752024)

- Shares **without** the United Kingdom
  Parts **sans** le Royaume-Uni
  ([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 4138151)

## More sentences

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

- Space explorers were not **without** religion.
  Les spationautes n'étaient pas dépourvus de religion.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1592707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1592707) [\#1594151](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1594151))

- I cannot do **without** this dictionary even for a single day.
  Je ne peux pas me passer de ce dictionnaire même pendant une journée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and bourdu · checked, community translation · [\#252486](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/252486) [\#354776](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/354776))

- Never go across the street **without** looking for cars first.
  Ne traverse jamais la rue avant d'avoir regardé s'il n'y avait pas de voitures.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gin and Romira · checked, community translation · [\#35454](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35454) [\#181291](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/181291))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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