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# sans — French to English

How French *sans* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: sans (590 035). By style: everyday 2 628 · literary 450 · biblical 605 · parliamentary 53 923 · legal and administrative 75 057 · UN documents 457 372.

## without

Used about 308 025 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 026 · literary ≈ 272 · biblical ≈ 139 · parliamentary ≈ 23 591 · legal and administrative ≈ 43 783 · UN documents ≈ 238 215). Meaning: [without in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/without/).

- **Sans** air, nous mourrions.
  **Without** air, we would die.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1590992](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1590992) [\#1591307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1591307))

- --Directement, **sans** rompre charge.
  “**Without** putting in anywhere.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 328)

- Il fait des choses grandes et insondables, Des merveilles **sans** nombre.
  He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things **without** number.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 9:10)

- Le rapport a été adopté, **sans** débat, au sein de la commission des budgets.
  The report was adopted in COBU **without** debate.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1398975)

- 300 mg/kg (**sans** E 249 ou E 250 ajouté)
  300 mg/kg (**without** added E 249 or E 250)
  ([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 897735)

## More sentences

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

- Tom resta longtemps allongé **sans** dormir, s'interrogeant ce qu'il devrait faire.
  Tom lay awake for a long time wondering about what he should do.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1093312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1093312) [\#5688102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5688102))

- Il essaya encore et encore, mais **sans** succès.
  He tried again and again, but didn't succeed.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#294365](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/294365) [\#12263135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12263135))

- J'utilise des écouteurs **sans** fil.
  I'm using wireless headphones.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Smorrs · checked, community translation · [\#8566290](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8566290) [\#10543307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10543307))

## 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

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