continue — English to French

How English continue is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: continue in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: continue (332 370), continues (70 708). By style: everyday 220 · literary 13 · biblical 35 · parliamentary 24 458 · legal and administrative 16 047 · UN documents 362 305.

continue

Used about 200 658 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 137 · literary ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 7 898 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 689 · UN documents ≈ 184 927). Forms: continue, continuer.

• It continues to grow.

  Il continue à croître.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by maruchi13 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2903360 #4895949

• “I continue,” said he.

  --Je continue, dit-il.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17540

• The Commission must continue in this vein.

  Elle doit continuer dans ce sens.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1284024

• Continue to recognise the asset

  Continuer à comptabiliser l’actif

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 512764

• The number of prisoners continues to rise.

  Le nombre de prisonniers continue de croître.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 14969740

More sentences

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

• He decided to continue the plan.

  Il a décidé de poursuivre le plan.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lohnesinpr and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #4038375 #4039208

• Shall we continue with the city tour now?

  Pouvons-nous poursuivre le tour de la ville maintenant ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #13934536 #13934537

• You'll make the same mistake if things continue in this way.

  Vous commettrez la même erreur si les choses se poursuivent de cette manière.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #56088 #1268260

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