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# quelque — French to English

How French *quelque* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: quelque (76 906), quelques (98 831). By style: everyday 5 321 · literary 496 · biblical 321 · parliamentary 34 907 · legal and administrative 5 474 · UN documents 129 218.

## some

Used about 72 032 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 776 · literary ≈ 155 · biblical ≈ 117 · parliamentary ≈ 6 181 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 540 · UN documents ≈ 63 263). Meaning: [some in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/some/).

- Je veux **quelques**-unes de celles-ci.
  I want **some** of those.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3517216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3517216) [\#3517360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3517360))

- Cela continua ainsi **quelque** temps.
  Thus it went on for **some** time.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26365)

- **Quelques**-uns des scribes, prenant la parole, dirent: Maître, tu as bien parlé.
  **Some** of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you speak well.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:39)

- Je voudrais faire **quelques** remarques factuelles.
  I would like only to say **some** factual remarks.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 975058)

- Les organisations doivent également satisfaire à **quelques** autres exigences, notamment:
  There are **some** further requirements. Organisations have to:
  ([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 2781476)

## few

Used about 27 150 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 497 · literary ≈ 103 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 11 272 · legal and administrative ≈ 798 · UN documents ≈ 13 460). Meaning: [few in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/few/).

- J'ai **quelques** amis ici.
  I have a **few** friends here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#253474](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/253474) [\#5419006](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5419006))

- **QUELQUES** OBSERVATIONS POUR LE BIEN DU SERVICE.
  A **FEW** OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28709)

- et reste auprès de lui **quelque** temps, jusqu’à ce que la fureur de ton frère s’apaise,
  Stay with him a **few** days, until your brother’s fury turns away—
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 27:44)

- Permettez-moi de vous poser **quelques** questions.
  Let me ask you a **few** questions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 479117)

- Faire tremper pendant **quelques** minutes dans de l'eau chaude.
  Soaking for a **few** minutes in warm water.
  ([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 4430157)

## about

Used about 9 824 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 55 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 454 · legal and administrative ≈ 228 · UN documents ≈ 8 076). Meaning: [about in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/about/).

- Tu sais **quelque** chose sur ta famille ?
  Do you know anything **about** your family?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Quazel and alphafour · checked, community translation · [\#1019218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1019218) [\#960835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/960835))

- Car il a parlé **quelque** part ainsi du septième jour: Et Dieu se reposa de toutes ses œuvres le septième jour.
  For he has said this somewhere **about** the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 4:4)

- Nous attendons **quelque** 100 participants à cet évènement.
  We expect there to be **about** 100 participants in this seminar.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 785123)

- Il convient de rappeler que la consommation de l’Union a diminué de **quelque** 14 % durant la période considérée.
  It is recalled that during the period considered the Union consumption decreased by **about** 14 %.
  ([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 2193612)

- **Quelque** 30 % des enseignants universitaires sont des femmes.
  **About** 30 per cent of university faculty members are women.
  ([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 5706390)

## something

Used about 4 755 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 106 · literary ≈ 93 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 2 545).

- Tom a trouvé **quelque** chose.
  Tom has found **something**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pititnatole and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2272723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2272723) [\#5364349](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5364349))

- --Veux-tu faire **quelque** chose pour moi?
  “Will you do **something** for me?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24902)

- Et il les regardait attentivement, s’attendant à recevoir d’eux **quelque** chose.
  He listened to them, expecting to receive **something** from them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 3:5)

- Il y a **quelque** chose dans tout cela.
  There is **something** in that.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1014886)

- Veux-tu manger **quelque** chose ?
  Do you want **something** to eat?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1799703](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1799703) [\#997576](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/997576))

## More sentences

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

- Il faisait si sombre qu'ils pouvaient à peine voir **quelque** chose.
  It was so dark that they could hardly see.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#34699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/34699) [\#1735854](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1735854))

- Puis-je aider en **quelque** manière que ce soit ?
  May I be of help in any way?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · [\#3638764](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3638764) [\#3636796](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3636796))

- Tom me demanda s'il se passait **quelque** chose.
  Tom asked me if anything was the matter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3444536](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3444536) [\#3866482](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3866482))

## 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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