sans

Meaning

without

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɑ̃/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sans, senz, sens, from Latin sine conflated with absentia in the sense "without". Cognates include Spanish sin, Portuguese sem, Italian senza, Catalan sens, sense.

Sentences

Les voitures roulent dessus sans bruit .

Cars run on it noiselessly.

Lorsque Denise faisait acte de force , sans élever le ton , pas une ne résistait .

When Denise made an act of force, without raising her voice, not one of them resisted.

Il monte sur le trône sans demander l'accord du roi Louis de Hongrie .

He ascended the throne without asking for the consent of King Louis of Hungary.

Sans doute , il avait rêvé , et il se renfonçait , lorsque le bruit recommença .

No doubt he had dreamed, and he was turning back when the noise began again.

Extérieurement , l'église est très simple , sans décor .

Externally, the church is very simple, without decoration.

Le niveau de l’eau se haussait sans palpitation .

The water level rose without palpitation.

Le capitaine Lyrisse discuta la proposition sans l'adopter.

Captain Lyrisse discussed the proposal without adopting it.

Sans ce discernement , l’acquisition de connaissances se réduit à une compétence théorique .

Without this discernment, the acquisition of knowledge is reduced to a theoretical skill.