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# enfin — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: enfin (107 297). By style: everyday 314 · literary 108 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 22 547 · legal and administrative 5 909 · UN documents 78 409.

## finally

Used about 49 267 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 183 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 12 213 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 186 · UN documents ≈ 32 670). Meaning: [finally in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/finally/).

- C'est **enfin** octobre.
  It's **finally** October.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and ddnktr · checked, community translation · [\#10071224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10071224) [\#7410861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7410861))

- Marius ouvrit **enfin** la quatrième lettre.
  **Finally**, Marius opened the fourth letter.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15886)

- **Enfin**, soyez tous animés des mêmes pensées et des mêmes sentiments, pleins d’amour fraternel, de compassion, d’humilité.
  **Finally**, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 3:8)

- **Enfin**, de nombreux pêcheurs pensent qu'apprendre à nager est un mauvais présage.
  **Finally**, many fishermen think that learning to swim is a bad omen.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 185476)

- **Enfin**, le risque de surcompensation serait substantiel.
  **Finally**, the potential for overcompensation would be substantial.
  ([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 3484551)

## last

Used about 28 496 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 98 · literary ≈ 47 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 7 516 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 231 · UN documents ≈ 19 602). Forms: last, lastly. Meaning: [last in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/last/).

- L'homme s'en alla **enfin**.
  The man went off at **last**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#45351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/45351) [\#4996174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4996174))

- **Enfin** il se retourna.
  At **last** he turned round.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22268)

- demandant continuellement dans mes prières d’avoir **enfin**, par sa volonté, le bonheur d’aller vers vous.
  requesting, if by any means now at **last** I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 1:10)

- **Enfin**, il y a une série de matières interdépendantes.
  **Lastly**, there is a series of interrelated matters.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1134422)

- **Enfin**, la Chine n’est pas la seule source d’importation sur le marché de l’Union.
  **Last** but not least, China is not the only source of imports into the Union.
  ([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 2722081)

## More sentences

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

- Je suis honteux de ce que j'ai à dire, madame, reprit Leuwen, mais **enfin** mon devoir d'homme d'honneur veut que je parle.
  I'm ashamed of what I have to say, my lady, said Leuwen, but my duty as a gentleman forces me to say it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1331924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1331924) [\#1331919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1331919))

- T'es-tu **enfin** accoutumée à consommer de la nourriture japonaise ?
  Have you got used to eating Japanese food yet?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#281697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/281697) [\#1475968](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1475968))

- Vous êtes-vous **enfin** accoutumé à consommer de la nourriture japonaise ?
  Have you got used yet to eating Japanese food?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#9949231](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9949231) [\#1475970](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1475970))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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