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# quelques — French to English

How French *quelques* 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: quelques (98 831). By style: everyday 1 421 · literary 215 · biblical 141 · parliamentary 21 795 · legal and administrative 1 917 · UN documents 73 342.

## some

Used about 42 281 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 414 · literary ≈ 45 · biblical ≈ 100 · parliamentary ≈ 2 724 · legal and administrative ≈ 799 · UN documents ≈ 38 199). 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))

- Depuis **quelques** jours il l'appelait «la veuve».
  For **some** days past he had spoken of her as “the widow.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 178)

- **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)

- Naturellement, nous devons toutefois formuler **quelques** conditions.
  But we must formulate **some** conditions, of course.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1833669)

- 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 30 361 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 799 · literary ≈ 90 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 13 622 · legal and administrative ≈ 559 · UN documents ≈ 15 280). 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)

- Ils avaient encore **quelques** petits poissons, et Jésus, ayant rendu grâces, les fit aussi distribuer.
  They also had a **few** small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 8:7)

- 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)

## there

Used about 1 531 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 1 528). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- **Quelques** Grecs, du nombre de ceux qui étaient montés pour adorer pendant la fête,
  Now **there** were certain Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 12:20)

- Mais il y a un grand déséquilibre dans ces flux qui sont canalisés essentiellement vers **quelques** pays considérés comme attrayants.
  But **there** is a great imbalance in these flows, which go principally to a handful of countries viewed as attractive.
  ([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 3506910)

## like

Used about 484 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 30 · parliamentary ≈ 454). Meaning: [like in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/like/).

- J'aimerais te poser **quelques** questions.
  I'd **like** to ask you a couple of questions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1936555](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1936555) [\#1942360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1942360))

- 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)

## More sentences

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

- Je t'appellerai dans **quelques** jours.
  I'll phone you in a couple of days.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10540332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10540332) [\#6843506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6843506))

- Tom a dit qu'il allait faire ça dans **quelques** jours.
  Tom said he'd do that in a couple of days.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aperitero and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6242422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6242422) [\#6604032](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6604032))

- As-tu **quelques** conseils pour moi ?
  Do you have any advice for me?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#277645](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277645) [\#129362](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129362))

## 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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