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# voire — French to English

How French *voire* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: voire (25 663). By style: everyday 30 · parliamentary 3 933 · legal and administrative 1 359 · UN documents 20 341.

## even

Used about 10 468 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 1 557 · legal and administrative ≈ 425 · UN documents ≈ 8 475). Meaning: [even in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/even/).

- La plupart du temps, il ne s'endort pas avant deux **voire** trois heures du matin.
  Most of the time, he doesn't get to sleep before two or **even** three o'clock in the morning.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#567054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/567054) [\#566590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/566590))

- Souvent, cela s'avère superflu **voire** dommageable.
  Often enough that is not necessary and it can **even** be harmful.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1634679)

- Ceci peut entraîner des fractures, **voire** la perte d'un ou deux doigts.
  This can lead to fractures or **even** loss of one or more fingers.
  ([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 5667902)

- Les défis politiques et éducatifs, **voire** esthétiques, sont importants.
  The political, educational and **even** aesthetics challenges are significant.
  ([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 29153457)

- Quand la croissance économique stagne **voire** décroit, les dettes ne peuvent pas être réduites.
  When economic growth stagnates or **even** declines, debts cannot be reduced.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#5705610](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5705610) [\#7815894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7815894))

## More sentences

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

- Il vient rarement, **voire** pas du tout.
  He seldom, if ever, comes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#292774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/292774) [\#1606440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1606440))

- Il apprend le chinois tellement vite que tout le monde dit qu'il est très intelligent, **voire** qu'il a un don inné pour les langues.
  He learned Chinese so fast, everyone says he's very smart, that he really has a gift with languages.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and jeanne · checked, community translation · [\#460291](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/460291) [\#381007](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/381007))

- Son changement de titre fut considéré comme une mise de côté, **voire** une rétrogradation, et certainement pas comme une promotion.
  His job title change was considered a lateral move, possibly a demotion, and certainly not a promotion.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2366877](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2366877) [\#2367804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2367804))

## 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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