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# serait — French to English

How French *serait* 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: serait (225 489). By style: everyday 791 · literary 80 · biblical 69 · parliamentary 24 485 · legal and administrative 12 912 · UN documents 187 152.

## one

Used about 16 138 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 510 · UN documents ≈ 15 596). Meaning: [one in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/one/).

- Vous seriez celui qui **serait** au courant.
  You'd be the **one** to know.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3729410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3729410) [\#4188728](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4188728))

- —On le **serait** à moins!
  "**One** might be, with less reason than now."
  ([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 2855)

- Si tous étaient un seul membre, où **serait** le corps?
  If they were all **one** member, where would the body be?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 12:19)

- Quelle **serait** la situation dans un mois ou deux, dans un an ou deux?
  What will be the situation in **one** month, two months, a year or two years from now?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2033333)

- Ce **serait** peut-être une solution.
  That might be **one** way out.
  ([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 13295555)

## More sentences

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

- Ce **serait** un désastre.
  It'd be a disaster.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slegros and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2548655](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2548655) [\#3213884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3213884))

- Je ne pense pas que ce **serait** une bonne idée.
  I don't think that that would be a good idea.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7226806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7226806) [\#12431166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12431166))

- Ce **serait** comique si ce n'était pas si tragique.
  It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and araneo · checked, community translation · [\#12958821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12958821) [\#12959723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12959723))

## 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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