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# seulement — French to English

How French *seulement* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: seulement (179 039), seulements (1). By style: everyday 933 · literary 61 · biblical 156 · parliamentary 31 099 · legal and administrative 9 148 · UN documents 137 643.

## only

Used about 143 239 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 603 · literary ≈ 44 · biblical ≈ 94 · parliamentary ≈ 20 085 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 242 · UN documents ≈ 115 171). Meaning: [only in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/only/).

- Si **seulement** j'avais su !
  If **only** I had known!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#10295004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10295004) [\#10294998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10294998))

- À pleine mer **seulement**.
  **Only** at high tide.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 3010)

- De tes yeux **seulement** tu regarderas, Et tu verras la rétribution des méchants.
  You will **only** look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 91:8)

- Mais est-ce **seulement** une question d'argent?
  But is it **only** about money?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1541601)

- renforcées **seulement** de matières plastiques
  Reinforced **only** with plastic
  ([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 231202)

## just

Used about 6 304 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 272 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 5 831 · legal and administrative ≈ 191). Meaning: [just in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/just/).

- Je souhaitais **seulement** être sûr.
  I **just** wanted to be sure.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2374083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2374083) [\#7438466](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7438466))

- Car elle disait: Si je puis **seulement** toucher ses vêtements, je serai guérie.
  For she said, “If I **just** touch his clothes, I will be made well.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 5:28)

- Cela signifie **seulement** que nous voulons garder les négociations ouvertes.
  It **just** means that we need to keep negotiations open.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 850650)

- L’objectif général de taille de bilan des banques françaises affecte ainsi non **seulement** le financement des collectivités territoriales, mais également celui des établissements publics de santé.
  The general balance-sheet size objective of French banks is thus affecting not **just** the financing of local authorities, but also the financing of public health establishments.
  ([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 3116995)

- J'ai **seulement** besoin de rester calme.
  I **just** need to stay calm.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3724831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3724831) [\#5306757](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5306757))

## also

Used about 3 652 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 648 · legal and administrative ≈ 191 · UN documents ≈ 2 809). Meaning: [also in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/also/).

- Du reste, non **seulement** son corps semblait s'être façonné selon la cathédrale, mais encore son esprit.
  Moreover, it was not his body alone which seemed fashioned after the Cathedral, but his mind **also**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2171)

- Mais pardonne mon péché pour cette fois **seulement**; et priez l’Éternel, votre Dieu, afin qu’il éloigne de moi encore cette plaie mortelle.
  Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to the LORD your God, that he may **also** take away from me this death.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 10:17)

- Il ne s'agit pas **seulement** d'un problème autrichien. Toute la zone alpine sensible est concernée.
  This is not merely a problem for Austria alone; the whole of the Alps - a sensitive area - is **also** at stake.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 420019)

- Les points 3.1, 3.4, 3.8.3 et 5 de l'appendice 2 ne s'appliquent pas **seulement** aux moteurs Diesel, mais aussi aux moteurs Diesel fonctionnant à l'éthanol.
  Sections 3.1, 3.4, 3.8.3 and 5 of Appendix 2 do not apply solely to diesel engines. They **also** apply to ethanol-fuelled diesel engines.
  ([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 609727)

- 41. Les autorités gouvernementales ne doivent donc pas **seulement** se contenter de faire voter des textes : il leur faut aussi entreprendre une action éducative pour essayer de faire disparaître les préjugés.
  41. Government authorities must thus not simply be content to pass legislation: they must **also** take educational measures to eliminate prejudice.
  ([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 7103856)

## More sentences

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

- C'est **seulement** hier que j'ai su son nom.
  It was not until yesterday that I knew his name.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#1540343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1540343) [\#11166752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11166752))

- Si **seulement** j'étais plus spontané.
  I wish I could be more spontaneous.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#953722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953722) [\#3209517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3209517))

- Les voleurs respectent la propriété. Ils veulent **seulement** que la propriété devienne leur propriété afin qu'ils puissent plus parfaitement la respecter.
  Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#737367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/737367) [\#740727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/740727))

## Grammar

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