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# près — French to English

How French *près* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: près (87 396). By style: everyday 745 · literary 174 · biblical 315 · parliamentary 7 134 · legal and administrative 3 791 · UN documents 75 237.

## near

Used about 28 809 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 372 · literary ≈ 69 · biblical ≈ 39 · parliamentary ≈ 892 · legal and administrative ≈ 790 · UN documents ≈ 26 646). Forms: near, nearly. Meaning: [near in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/near/).

- Est-ce **près** de chez toi ?
  Is it **near** your house?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Pharamp and CK · checked, community translation · [\#42494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42494) [\#410963](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/410963))

- Il retourna dans l'écurie **près** du cheval.
  He returned to the stable and remained **near** the horse.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5594)

- Ils le virent de loin; et, avant qu’il fût **près** d’eux, ils complotèrent de le faire mourir.
  They saw him afar off, and before he came **near** to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 37:18)

- En 2007, **près** de 300 000 Européens hautement qualifiés sont partis travailler en dehors de l'Union.
  In 2007, **nearly** 300 000 highly qualified Europeans left to work outside the Union.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1166593)

- le bassin versant de l'Obere Nagold, depuis sa source jusqu'au barrage **près** de Neumühle.
  the water catchment area of Obere Nagold from the source to the barrier **near** Neumühle.
  ([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 1379190)

## almost

Used about 12 048 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 892 · legal and administrative ≈ 158 · UN documents ≈ 10 972). Meaning: [almost in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/almost/).

- Ma chambre mesure **près** de six mètres de long.
  My room is **almost** six meters long.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10836311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10836311) [\#10836354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10836354))

- Or la logique ignore l'à peu **près**; absolument comme le soleil ignore la chandelle.
  Now, logic knows not the “**almost**,” absolutely as the sun knows not the candle.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18100)

- - Monsieur le Président, je proviens aussi d’une île qui a souffert du terrorisme pendant **près** de trente ans.
  Mr President, I also come from an island which had suffered **almost** 30 years of terrorism.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 791822)

- Cet investissement serait d’autant plus déterminant que les aéroports tendraient à générer **près** de la moitié de leurs revenus à partir d’activités non aéronautiques.
  This investment is all the more decisive because airports tend to generate **almost** half of their revenues from non-aeronautical activities.
  ([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 3506321)

- **Près** de la moitié (49 %) est âgée de moins de 15 ans, 45 % est âgée de 15 à 60 ans et 6 % de la population environ a plus de 60 ans.
  **Almost** half (49 per cent) are under 15 years of age; 45 per cent are aged between 15 and 60 and about 6 per cent are over 60.
  ([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 5257271)

## close

Used about 12 011 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 93 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 932 · legal and administrative ≈ 553 · UN documents ≈ 9 405). Forms: close, closely. Meaning: [close in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/close/).

- C'est **près** de ma maison.
  It's **close** to my house.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3823680](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3823680) [\#5334428](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5334428))

- La barrière était tout **près**.
  The barrier was **close** at hand.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9353)

- Un léger vent du sud vint à souffler, et, se croyant maîtres de leur dessein, ils levèrent l’ancre et côtoyèrent de **près** l’île de Crète.
  When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, **close** to shore.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 27:13)

- Voyons à présent les choses d’un peu plus **près**.
  Now let us look at things a little more **closely**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 695862)

- La Commission continuera de suivre de **près** les importations de bananes en provenance du Pérou,
  The Commission will continue to **closely** monitor banana imports from Peru,
  ([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 2834387)

## there

Used about 6 442 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 149 · UN documents ≈ 6 270). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- Il se tenait **près** de ce lit, debout, le doigt sur la bouche, comme s'il y eût eu dans la chambre quelqu'un à faire taire.
  He stood beside the bed, with his finger on his lips, as though **there** were some one in the chamber whom he must enjoin to silence.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6290)

- C’étaient les potiers et les habitants des plantations et des parcs; ils demeuraient là **près** du roi et travaillaient pour lui.
  These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived **there** with the king for his work.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 4:23)

- Nous suivons toutefois la question de **près**, nous étudions les derniers développements technologiques et il y aura une évaluation en 2012.
  However we are following the issue, we are studying the latest technology development and **there** will be an evaluation in 2012.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1376957)

- Il y a de par le monde des millions de personnes déracinées, dont **près** de la moitié sont des enfants.
  **There** are millions of uprooted people worldwide, of which approximately half are children.
  ([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 24454239)

- Abram leva ses tentes, et vint habiter parmi les chênes de Mamré, qui sont **près** d’Hébron. Et il bâtit là un autel à l’Éternel.
  Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar **there** to the LORD.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 13:18)

## about

Used about 4 236 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 171 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 595 · legal and administrative ≈ 316 · UN documents ≈ 3 135). Meaning: [about in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/about/).

- Elle a à peu **près** mon âge.
  She is **about** my age.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#311507](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/311507) [\#15608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15608))

- Cette joie dura **près** d'un quart d'heure.
  This joy lasted **about** a quarter of an hour.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8759)

- Il les nourrit **près** de quarante ans dans le désert;
  For a period of **about** forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 13:18)

- Je pense que c'est à peu **près** tout ce que je dois dire.
  I think that is **about** all I need to say.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 34687)

- Introduire dans un bécher taré une quantité d'environ 100 grammes, pesée à 0,01 gramme **près**, de l'échantillon.
  Weigh **about** 100 g of the sample to the nearest 0,01 g in a tared beaker.
  ([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 3384656)

## More sentences

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

- Il était à peu **près** ivre.
  He was pretty much drunk.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Joseph · checked, community translation · [\#4001737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4001737) [\#4002121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4002121))

- Tom, dix mots en arrière, ne voyait pas bien ce mot-ci. Mary, qui était plus **près**, le lui décrivit.
  Tom, back ten words, couldn't see very well this one. Mary, who stood closer, described it to him.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1080953](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1080953) [\#1080952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1080952))

- Il posa quelques questions à la dame qui se tenait **près** de lui.
  He asked the lady standing next to him some questions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#487225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/487225) [\#842639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/842639))

## 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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