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# souvent — French to English

How French *souvent* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: souvent (127 859), souventes (1). By style: everyday 1 381 · literary 47 · biblical 17 · parliamentary 14 628 · legal and administrative 2 795 · UN documents 108 992.

## often

Used about 90 011 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 208 · literary ≈ 39 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 10 971 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 154 · UN documents ≈ 75 627). Meaning: [often in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/often/).

- Le voyez-vous **souvent** ?
  Do you see him **often**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · [\#284964](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/284964) [\#8687485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8687485))

- --Je dis plus **souvent**.
  “I say more **often**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11489)

- Judas, qui le livrait, connaissait ce lieu, parce que Jésus et ses disciples s’y étaient **souvent** réunis.
  Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus **often** met there with his disciples.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 18:2)

- Ce problème est **souvent** négligé.
  This problem is **often** neglected.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1366997)

- **Souvent** appliquée en association avec la MTD 141 a).
  It is **often** applied in combination with BAT 141(a)
  ([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 3831465)

## many

Used about 9 209 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 305 · UN documents ≈ 8 897). Meaning: [many in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/many/).

- Cosette connaissait le chemin pour l'avoir fait bien **souvent** le jour.
  Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it **many** times in daylight.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8272)

- C’est ce qui m’a **souvent** empêché d’aller vers vous.
  Therefore also I was hindered these **many** times from coming to you,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 15:22)

- Cette Constitution supprime l’indépendance des pays au profit d’un régime opaque poursuivant des objectifs qui, bien trop **souvent**, ne bénéficient pas du soutien de la population.
  This Constitution removes countries’ independence in favour of a non-transparent regime pursuing objectives that, in all too **many** cases, do not have grass-roots support.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 638376)

- Le plus **souvent** ses recommandations restent sans suite.
  **Many** of its recommendations remain ignored.
  ([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 19900328)

- J’ai **souvent** entendu pareilles choses; Vous êtes tous des consolateurs fâcheux.
  “I have heard **many** such things. You are all miserable comforters!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 16:2)

## frequently

Used about 6 077 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 58 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 219 · legal and administrative ≈ 349 · UN documents ≈ 4 449). Meaning: [frequently in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/frequently/).

- Êtes-vous **souvent** enrhumé ?
  Do you **frequently** get colds?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and NurseMeeks · checked, community translation · [\#9850999](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9850999) [\#9869865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9869865))

- Il lui offrait donc **souvent**, au bar-room du Mongolia, quelques verres de whisky ou de pale-ale, que le brave garçon acceptait sans cérémonie et rendait même pour ne pas être en reste,--trouvant, d'ailleurs, ce Fix un gentleman bien honnête.
  He **frequently** offered him a glass of whiskey or pale ale in the steamer bar-room, which Passepartout never failed to accept with graceful alacrity, mentally pronouncing Fix the best of good fellows.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 544)

- Nous devons également améliorer les normes administratives et professionnelles turques, qui sont **souvent** cruellement inadéquates.
  We also need to improve administrative and professional standards in Turkey which are **frequently** woefully inadequate.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1883643)

- Estrilda quartinia (**souvent** commercialisée sous Estrilda melanotis)
  Estrilda quartinia (**Frequently** traded as Estrilda melanotis)
  ([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 1838144)

- Le rôle de la liberté de religion ou de conviction dans les conflits entre les droits est complexe et **souvent** mal compris.
  21. The role of freedom of religion or belief within related conflicts is complex and is **frequently** misunderstood.
  ([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 27084286)

## more

Used about 2 835 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 610 · UN documents ≈ 2 224). Meaning: [more in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/more/).

- Ce qui en sort le plus **souvent**, ce sont des condamnations faites d'avance.
  Condemnations pronounced in advance are **more** likely to be the result.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5800)

- En revanche, les conflits au sein d'un même État se produisent de plus en plus **souvent**.
  Instead, intra-state conflicts are becoming ever **more** common.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1848008)

- Plus récemment, en novembre, nous avons publié un rapport sur un sujet **souvent** négligé dans les recherches, le volontariat dans les situations d &apos; urgence.
  **More** recently, in November, we produced a report on the underresearched topic of volunteering in emergencies.
  ([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 23774398)

- Il s' avère en fin de compte que c'est le visage modéré du conservatisme qui l' a le plus **souvent** emporté sur son aspect plus idéologique, et inacceptable.
  As it turns out, the moderate face of conservatism has for the most part prevailed over the **more** ideological and unacceptable one.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 105939)

## than

Used about 306 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 305). Meaning: [than in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/than/).

- M. Madeleine, qui ne riait pas beaucoup plus **souvent** que Javert, se mit à rire.
  M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener **than** Javert himself, burst out laughing now:—
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4607)

- Les filles entrent moins **souvent** qu'autrefois en contact avec des sites pornographiques, et elles n'ont qu'une vague expérience de la pornographie en ligne.
  Fewer girls come in contact with porn sites **than** they once did, and they take a dim view of porn on the Net.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1147893)

## More sentences

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

- Nos doutes sont des traîtres. Ils nous privent de ce que nous pourrions **souvent** gagner de bon, parce que nous avons peur d'essayer.
  Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#6806209](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6806209) [\#6806212](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6806212))

- Le temps change très **souvent** à cette période de l'année.
  The weather is very changeable at this time of year.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Archibald and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10903654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10903654) [\#440245](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/440245))

- Je l'ai vu **souvent** ces derniers temps.
  I've seen a lot of him recently.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CH · checked, community translation · [\#1415959](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1415959) [\#237259](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/237259))

## Grammar

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