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# toutefois — French to English

How French *toutefois* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: toutefois (234 308). By style: everyday 10 · literary 6 · biblical 35 · parliamentary 28 213 · legal and administrative 28 818 · UN documents 177 226.

## however

Used about 192 758 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 22 335 · legal and administrative ≈ 26 417 · UN documents ≈ 143 996). Meaning: [however in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/however/).

- **Toutefois**, ce n'était qu'une conjecture personnelle.
  **However**, that was just my conjecture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7627788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7627788) [\#10535832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10535832))

- **Toutefois** l'écolier Joannes ne s'endormait pas.
  **However**, scholar Johannes had not fallen asleep.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 338)

- Il disait: Abba, Père, toutes choses te sont possibles, éloigne de moi cette coupe! **Toutefois**, non pas ce que je veux, mais ce que tu veux.
  He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. **However**, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 14:36)

- **Toutefois**, il s'agit d'un projet à long terme.
  This is, **however**, a long-term plan.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1425066)

- Le point 4, **toutefois**, ne s'applique pas.
  Section 4, **however**, does not apply.
  ([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 1188672)

## nevertheless

Used about 12 860 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 176 · legal and administrative ≈ 600 · UN documents ≈ 11 077). Meaning: [nevertheless in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/nevertheless/).

- **Toutefois**, le sujet mérite d'être débattu.
  **Nevertheless**, the topic is worth discussing.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#42990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42990) [\#11274665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11274665))

- **Toutefois**, dans l'après-midi, à un certain moment, la bataille se précisa.
  **Nevertheless**, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a point.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6958)

- **Toutefois**, dans le Seigneur, la femme n’est point sans l’homme, ni l’homme sans la femme.
  **Nevertheless**, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 11:11)

- **Toutefois**, le Parlement est une institution qui représente les peuples composant l'Europe.
  **Nevertheless**, this Parliament represents the people of Europe.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1991121)

- **Toutefois**, les aérodynes motopropulsés cèdent le passage aux planeurs.
  **Nevertheless**, power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft shall give way to sailplanes.
  ([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 2685953)

## More sentences

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

- Tous les chevaux sont des animaux, **toutefois** les animaux ne sont pas tous des chevaux.
  All horses are animals, but not all animals are horses.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by minti and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#51692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/51692) [\#136422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136422))

- **Toutefois**, je l'aime.
  I love him anyway.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3248414](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3248414) [\#3592294](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3592294))

- Certaines phrases devraient **toutefois** être révisées.
  That said, some sentences should be revised.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#13714324](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13714324) [\#13698256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13698256))

## 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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