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Meaning: [almost in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/almost/). - J'ai **presque** tué Tom. I **almost** killed Tom. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rockaround and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5859875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5859875) [\#7668928](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7668928)) - Nous marchions **presque** sans mot dire. We moved on **almost** without a word. ([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 1719) - Le sabbat suivant, **presque** toute la ville se rassembla pour entendre la parole de Dieu. The next Sabbath, **almost** the whole city was gathered together to hear the word of God. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 13:44) - Il est **presque** certain que votre question sera traitée par écrit. Your question will **almost** certainly be answered in writing. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1018954) - Tous les jours ou **presque** tous les jours Every day or **almost** every day ([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 2148186) ## nearly Used about 6 755 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 80 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 678 · legal and administrative ≈ 170 · UN documents ≈ 5 805). Meaning: [nearly in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/nearly/). - J'ai **presque** fini. I'm **nearly** finished. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ANH\_DAO and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2248109](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2248109) [\#3846](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3846)) - En effet, des quintes de toux interrompaient Fantine **presque** à chaque mot. In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at **nearly** every word. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6364) - Et **presque** tout, d’après la loi, est purifié avec du sang, et sans effusion de sang il n’y a pas de pardon. According to the law, **nearly** everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 9:22) - Le Conseil a adopté **presque** tous les amendements. The Council accepted **nearly** all of the amendments. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 48258) - Poudre blanche ou **presque** blanche White or **nearly** white powder ([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 1454400) ## every Used about 640 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 194 · UN documents ≈ 447). Meaning: [every in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/every/). - Lorsque nous avons débuté les négociations le dernier jour, **presque** toutes les suggestions ont été rejetées. When we started negotiations on the last day more or less **every** suggestion was rejected. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1260575) - **Presque** tous les aspects de la vie quotidienne des Palestiniens et des autres Arabes du territoire palestinien occupé ont été sérieusement affectés. Practically **every** aspect of the daily life of Palestinians and other Arabs in the OPT has been severely affected. ([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 11441021) - Si nous tardons trop, nous courons le risque de rouvrir le débat sur **presque** tous les articles du projet de Constitution. If we take too long, there is a risk of reopening the debate on virtually **every** article in the draft Constitution. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 534919) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Je n'ai **presque** pas d'argent sur moi. I have hardly any money with me. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by belgavox and CK · checked, community translation · [\#253269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/253269) [\#1720078](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1720078)) - Mon service est **presque** terminé. My shift's over soon. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4013255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4013255) [\#3640648](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3640648)) - Je ne sais **presque** rien. I know next to nothing. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and freddy1 · checked, community translation · [\#2116256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2116256) [\#8285894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8285894)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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