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# seul — French to English

How French *seul* 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: seul (85 466), seule (72 057), seules (24 473), seuls (36 833). By style: everyday 3 302 · literary 148 · biblical 323 · parliamentary 28 163 · legal and administrative 31 359 · UN documents 155 534.

## only

Used about 130 922 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 946 · literary ≈ 41 · biblical ≈ 62 · parliamentary ≈ 19 362 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 213 · UN documents ≈ 88 298). Meaning: [only in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/only/).

- Vous êtes mon **seul** espoir.
  You're my **only** hope.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Petrus and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4463702](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4463702) [\#4470307](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4470307))

- C'est le **seul** oiseau qui soutienne sa cage.
  It is the **only** bird which bears up its own cage.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14831)

- Ou bien, est-ce que moi **seul** et Barnabas nous n’avons pas le droit de ne point travailler?
  Or have **only** Barnabas and I no right to not work?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 9:6)

- C'est le **seul** moyen d'y parvenir.
  That is the **only** way to do it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1372519)

- Un **seul** essai suffit.
  **Only** one test is necessary.
  ([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 5417918)

## single

Used about 21 688 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 52 · literary ≈ 21 · parliamentary ≈ 1 173 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 430 · UN documents ≈ 17 012). Meaning: [single in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/single/).

- Tom est de nouveau **seul**.
  Tom is **single** again.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7733736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7733736) [\#12234580](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12234580))

- Mr. Fogg n'avait encore ni gagné ni perdu un **seul** jour.
  Mr. Fogg had neither gained nor lost a **single** day.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2036)

- Il n'existe même pas une **seule** étude quantitative pour étayer ces élucubrations.
  There is not a **single** quantitative study to support its curious claims.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1973041)

- Il existe un **seul** budget composé de deux chapitres:
  There shall be one **single** budget comprising two sections:
  ([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 216875)

- Une **seule** étape avec un engagement complet
  **Single**-stage with complete commitment upon decision
  ([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 19630799)

## alone

Used about 18 844 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 651 · literary ≈ 66 · biblical ≈ 62 · parliamentary ≈ 2 640 · legal and administrative ≈ 653 · UN documents ≈ 13 771). Meaning: [alone in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/alone/).

- Tu n'es pas **seule**.
  You're not **alone**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1895592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1895592) [\#3226778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3226778))

- Marius se retrouva **seul**.
  Marius found himself **alone**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16593)

- **Seul**, il étend les cieux, Il marche sur les hauteurs de la mer.
  He **alone** stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 9:8)

- Dans les **seules** eaux suédoises, ces opérations de délestage interviennent par centaines.
  In Swedish waters **alone**, there are hundreds of these each year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 21553)

- Il s'ensuit que les capacités inutilisées de cette société représentent à elles **seules** plus de la moitié de la consommation de l'Union.
  It follows that the spare capacity of this company **alone** is more than half the Union consumption.
  ([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 4244580)

## one

Used about 12 646 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 86 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 156 · parliamentary ≈ 880 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 797 · UN documents ≈ 9 721). Meaning: [one in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/one/).

- Il ne me reste plus qu'un **seul** bonbon.
  I've got just **one** sweet left.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11147186](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11147186) [\#11151440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11151440))

- À cela une **seule** réponse: Jadis.
  To this there is but **one** reply: “In former days.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10956)

- il y a un **seul** Seigneur, une **seule** foi, un **seul** baptême,
  **one** Lord, one faith, one baptism,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 4:5)

- Une **seule** Europe comme cadre de notre collaboration de demain dans l'intérêt de tous.
  **One** Europe as a framework for future cooperation that benefits everyone.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 347001)

- Un député ne peut appartenir qu’à un **seul** groupe politique.
  A Member may not belong to more than **one** political group.
  ([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 4878633)

## More sentences

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

- Je suis très **seul** ici.
  I'm very lonely here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by narnar and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5652573](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5652573) [\#5653067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5653067))

- Je me demande si Tom est encore **seul**.
  I wonder if Tom is still lonely.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zarisi and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6346887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6346887) [\#8352737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8352737))

- Je me sens si **seul**.
  I feel so lonely.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2549389](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2549389) [\#7438462](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7438462))

## 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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