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# seule — French to English

How French *seule* 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: seule (72 057), seules (24 473). By style: everyday 1 300 · literary 60 · biblical 58 · parliamentary 13 863 · legal and administrative 13 665 · UN documents 67 584.

## only

Used about 60 721 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 379 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 9 242 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 537 · UN documents ≈ 41 536). Meaning: [only in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/only/).

- Je ne les ai rencontrées qu'une **seule** fois.
  I met them **only** once.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Whidou and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3912075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3912075) [\#4551975](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4551975))

- Mais Javert, attentif à sa **seule** pensée, continua:
  But Javert, heeding his own thought **only**, continued:—
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4754)

- Et Dieu fit ainsi cette nuit-là. La toison **seule** resta sèche, et tout le terrain se couvrit de rosée.
  God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece **only**, and there was dew on all the ground.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JDG 6:40)

- (HU) Je n'ai qu'une **seule** question.
  (HU) I have **only** one question.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1360282)

- Une **seule** valeur doit être sélectionnée.
  **Only** one value can be selected.
  ([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 3656234)

## single

Used about 9 924 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 578 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 566 · UN documents ≈ 7 744). Meaning: [single in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/single/).

- L'examen était très difficile, et je n'ai pas pu répondre à une **seule** question.
  The exam was very hard, and I couldn't answer a **single** question.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7937161](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7937161) [\#8538092](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8538092))

- Mlle Vaubois, parfaite en son genre, était l'hermine de la stupidité sans une **seule** tache d'intelligence.
  Mademoiselle Vaubois, perfect in her style, was the ermine of stupidity without a **single** spot of intelligence.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13095)

- 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)

- Ki peut être déterminé après exécution d'une **seule** séquence.
  Ki may be determined following the completion of a **single** sequence.
  ([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 5545640)

- 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 8 018 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 636 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 444 · legal and administrative ≈ 285 · UN documents ≈ 5 632). 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))

- --Est-ce que tu es **seule**?
  “Are you **alone** there?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8496)

- Je dirai tes œuvres puissantes, Seigneur Éternel! Je rappellerai ta justice, la tienne **seule**.
  I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours **alone**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 71:16)

- 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 5 025 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 42 · parliamentary ≈ 722 · legal and administrative ≈ 712 · UN documents ≈ 3 520). Meaning: [one in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/one/).

- Je suis un être humain et je considère toute l'humanité comme une **seule** famille.
  I am a human being, and I regard all of humanity as **one** family.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#8764230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8764230) [\#8764268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8764268))

- 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)

- Une **seule** valeur des trois peut être inférieure à 35 J/cm2 et, en aucun cas, à 25 J/cm2.
  Not more than **one** of the three figures may be less than 35 J/cm2, with a minimum of 25 J/cm2.
  ([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 1766705)

## More sentences

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

- La fille se sent **seule**.
  The girl is lonely.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#44394](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/44394) [\#6463435](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6463435))

- Tom a dit qu'il croyait que Mary était **seule**.
  Tom said he thought Mary was lonely.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6436235](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6436235) [\#6461689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6461689))

- C'est ma **seule** préoccupation.
  That's my sole concern.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#42050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42050) [\#10315112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10315112))

## 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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