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# rien — French to English

How French *rien* 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: rien (53 701), riens (7). By style: everyday 4 391 · literary 280 · biblical 392 · parliamentary 15 320 · legal and administrative 2 634 · UN documents 30 691.

## nothing

Used about 14 745 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 013 · literary ≈ 174 · biblical ≈ 188 · parliamentary ≈ 6 566 · legal and administrative ≈ 494 · UN documents ≈ 5 312). Meaning: [nothing in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/nothing/).

- Tu n'es **rien** pour moi.
  You mean **nothing** to me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2288203](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2288203) [\#11566695](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11566695))

- **Rien** ne suffit à l'amour.
  **Nothing** suffices for love.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20223)

- Cantique de David. L’Éternel est mon berger: je ne manquerai de **rien**.
  A Psalm by David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall lack **nothing**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 23:1)

- Il ne maîtrise **rien** du tout.
  It has **nothing** under control!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1799135)

- **Rien** ne va dans ce sens.
  There is **nothing** to suggest that this is so.
  ([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 2017334)

## there

Used about 12 786 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 91 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 1 876 · legal and administrative ≈ 768 · UN documents ≈ 10 034). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- **Rien** n'est gratuit.
  **There**'s no such thing as a free lunch.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#652222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/652222) [\#11866039](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11866039))

- Passez aux îles de Kittim, et regardez! Envoyez quelqu’un à Kédar, observez bien, Et regardez s’il y a **rien** de semblable!
  For pass over to the islands of Kittim, and see. Send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if **there** has been such a thing.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JER 2:10)

- L'ordre alphabétique n'a donc **rien** à voir là-dedans.
  In this case, therefore, **there** is no discretion in the application of alphabetical order.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1162415)

- **Rien** n'indiquait que la négociation de ces contrats avec des banques privées avait abouti.
  **There** was no evidence of successful negotiation of forward contracts with private banks.
  ([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 1965722)

- **Rien** ne saurait justifier cette exclusion continue.
  **There** is no justification for this ongoing exclusion.
  ([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 16535702)

## anything

Used about 2 598 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 281 · literary ≈ 34 · biblical ≈ 33 · parliamentary ≈ 1 251).

- Il n'a **rien** fait.
  He hasn't done **anything**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1911999](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1911999) [\#1914072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1914072))

- Il n'entendait plus **rien**.
  He no longer heard **anything**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27575)

- Mais Pierre dit: Non, Seigneur, car je n’ai jamais **rien** mangé de souillé ni d’impur.
  But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten **anything** that is common or unclean.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 10:14)

- Depuis l'an 2000, toutes les mesures contre le chômage, la pauvreté et l'exclusion n'ont servi à **rien**.
  Since 2000, none of the measures to combat unemployment, poverty and exclusion have achieved **anything**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 998781)

- Je n'ai **rien** entendu.
  I didn't hear **anything**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#555270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/555270) [\#1410213](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1410213))

## t

Used about 1 019 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 366 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 57 · UN documents ≈ 590). Meaning: [t in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/t/).

- Cela ne fait **rien**.
  It doesn'**t** matter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#37894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/37894) [\#7646686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7646686))

- —Voilà ce dont je ne suis pas persuadé, mon oncle, car **rien** ne prouve l'authenticité de ce document.
  "I don'**t** feel so very sure of that, uncle," I replied; "for we have no proof of the authenticity of this document."
  ([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 433)

- Et ils ne purent **rien** répondre à cela.
  They couldn’**t** answer him regarding these things.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 14:6)

- Parfois, ce sont les petits **riens** qui font la différence, des initiatives qui n &apos; exigent pas que l &apos; on passe par un consultant ni qu &apos; on dépense beaucoup d &apos; argent mais qui néanmoins changent le quotidien.
  Wheelbarrows 48. Sometimes it is the little things that make a difference; acts that don &apos; **t** require a consultancy or large amounts of funding but nonetheless impact the daily lives of 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 17736616)

- Cela ne me dit **rien**.
  That doesn'**t** ring a bell.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2276912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2276912) [\#8939441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8939441))

## More sentences

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

- On a **rien** sans **rien**.
  No pain, no gain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#18370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18370) [\#1234109](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1234109))

- Je te promets que je n'y suis pour **rien**.
  I promise you that I'm not responsible for this.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#11671397](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11671397) [\#10648724](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10648724))

- Cela ne sert à **rien** de lui demander de l'aide.
  It's no use asking him for help.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mrlem and CK · checked, community translation · [\#285087](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/285087) [\#428901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/428901))

## Grammar

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