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# uniquement — French to English

How French *uniquement* 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: uniquement (73 443), uniquemente (2), uniquements (1). By style: everyday 52 · literary 7 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 9 355 · legal and administrative 23 378 · UN documents 40 649.

## only

Used about 53 091 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 41 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 872 · legal and administrative ≈ 19 482 · UN documents ≈ 28 693). Meaning: [only in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/only/).

- Admission d'étudiants **uniquement**.
  Admission to students **only**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and Whiskkebarr · checked, community translation · [\#21412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/21412) [\#832016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/832016))

- C'est pourtant comme cela qu'on s'aime et **uniquement** comme cela.
  That is the way people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the **only** way.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19445)

- L’Éternel vit que la méchanceté des hommes était grande sur la terre, et que toutes les pensées de leur cœur se portaient chaque jour **uniquement** vers le mal.
  The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually **only** evil.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 6:5)

- De plus, le secteur de l’aviation n’est pas **uniquement** confronté au problème du CO2.
  Moreover, CO2 is not the **only** problem aviation faces.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 833613)

- \[Pour les personnes physiques **uniquement**.\]
  \[For natural persons **only**.\]
  ([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 3994011)

## solely

Used about 6 523 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 585 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 948 · UN documents ≈ 3 985). Meaning: [solely in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/solely/).

- Les données empiriques sont basées **uniquement** sur l'observation.
  Empirical data is based **solely** on observation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and sans · checked, community translation · [\#2575686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2575686) [\#12329893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12329893))

- Et il se trouvait condamné à cette vie de forçat vagabond, **uniquement** parce que sa mère s'était livrée aux caresses d'un homme.
  And he was condemned to this vagabond convict’s life **solely** because his mother had yielded to a man’s caresses.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2320)

- Est-ce que cela passe **uniquement**, d'après vous, par la baisse des dépenses publiques ou est-ce que cela passe aussi par la capacité à augmenter certains impôts?
  In your view, does that depend **solely** on a decrease in public spending, or does it also depend on the ability to increase certain taxes?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1336665)

- mélangées principalement ou **uniquement** avec des fibres artificielles discontinues
  Mixed mainly or **solely** with artificial staple fibres
  ([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 183003)

- On ne saurait rendre compte des besoins des handicapés **uniquement** en termes de droits.
  The needs of disabled persons could not be formulated **solely** in terms of rights.
  ([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 3826553)

## just

Used about 2 733 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 729). Meaning: [just in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/just/).

- Ce sont **uniquement** des directives, non des règles absolues.
  These are **just** guidelines, not hard and fast rules.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#950973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950973) [\#951046](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/951046))

- Tous ceux qui veulent se rendre agréables selon la chair vous contraignent à vous faire circoncire, **uniquement** afin de n’être pas persécutés pour la croix de Christ.
  As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised, **just** so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GAL 6:12)

- Les poissons ne servent pas **uniquement** de source nutritive.
  Fish are not **just** a source of food.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1425093)

- Tom ne s'intéressait pas **uniquement** au don musical de Mary.
  Tom was not **just** interested in Mary's musical abilities.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sbamsbamsbam and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#4073333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4073333) [\#4080986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4080986))

- Je ne sais pas, il s'agissait ici d'un problème de style **uniquement**.
  I don't know, maybe it was **just** his way of doing things that was the problem.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2002955)

## More sentences

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

- Le secret de la dialectique d'Hegel repose ultimement **uniquement** dans ceci, qu'elle nie la théologie par la philosophie pour ensuite nier la philosophie par la théologie.
  The secret of Hegel's dialectic lies ultimately in this alone, that it negates theology through philosophy in order then to negate philosophy through theology.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#410817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/410817) [\#410999](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/410999))

- Le fait de t'avoir emmené aussi loin est **uniquement** de ma faute.
  It's my own fault for taking you this far.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3446395](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3446395) [\#3446608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3446608))

- Ce n'est pas **uniquement** cela que j'ai entendu.
  That's not all I heard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slahatuvelli and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13834911](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13834911) [\#13826063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13826063))

## Grammar

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