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# quelconque — French to English

How French *quelconque* 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: quelconque (29 480), quelconques (1 174). By style: everyday 160 · literary 10 · biblical 37 · parliamentary 1 862 · legal and administrative 4 217 · UN documents 24 368.

## any

Used about 26 349 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 109 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 1 203 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 690 · UN documents ≈ 21 322). Meaning: [any in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/any/).

- As-tu un **quelconque** argent ?
  Do you have **any** money?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#69208](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/69208) [\#1271602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1271602))

- Un auditoire **quelconque** suffit à qui s'est tu trop longtemps.
  **Any** audience suffices for a person who has held his peace too long.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11592)

- Celui qui touchera un mort, un corps humain **quelconque**, sera impur pendant sept jours.
  “He who touches the dead body of **any** man shall be unclean seven days.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 19:11)

- En avons-nous tiré une **quelconque** leçon?
  Have we learnt **any** lesson from it?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1292428)

- selon de **quelconques** caractéristiques techniques.
  by **any** of the technical characteristics.
  ([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 2280870)

## kind

Used about 21 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 19). Meaning: [kind in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/kind/).

- Nous sommes toujours exposés à un type **quelconque** de risque.
  We are always exposed to some **kind** of danger.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CC · checked, community translation · [\#23268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23268) [\#864358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/864358))

- En effet, le concept "vert" est de plus en plus souvent galvaudé à des fins d'un **quelconque** protectionnisme.
  Indeed, the 'green' concept is being misused with increasing frequency for the purposes of a **kind** of protectionism.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1222539)

## More sentences

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

- Si, pour une raison **quelconque**, cela devait advenir, que ferais-tu ?
  If for some reason that should happen, what would you do?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1438048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1438048) [\#1438191](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1438191))

- Pour une **quelconque** raison, elle a secoué la tête.
  For some reason or another she shook her head.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Barbiche0 and ToxicFriu · checked, community translation · [\#24772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/24772) [\#355162](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/355162))

- Pour une raison **quelconque**, leurs vacances en France n'ont pas été à la hauteur de leurs espérances.
  For one reason or another their holiday in France didn't come up to expectations.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Elephantastique and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#35994](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/35994) [\#2707556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2707556))

## 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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