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"il n'etait tout de meme qu'un enfant."

?Does this translate as "he was just a child,all the same", or
"he wasn't just a child, all the same."

tia

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ne ... que has the "partially negative" sense of "just", "only"
If you want the "totally" negative sense of "not just", "not only", then you need an extra pas: ne ... pas que ....

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