follow — English to French

How English follow is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: follow in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: follow (183 709), follows (131 843). By style: everyday 449 · literary 44 · biblical 103 · parliamentary 9 186 · legal and administrative 45 296 · UN documents 260 474.

suit

Used about 136 248 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 150 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 722 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 120 · UN documents ≈ 111 244). Forms: suit, suite.

• Night always follows day.

  La nuit suit toujours le jour.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #277575 #129354

• Paris follows this example with all the stupidity peculiar to intelligent towns.

  Cet exemple, Paris le suit, avec toute la bêtise propre aux villes d'esprit.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27310

• He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me isn’t worthy of me.

  celui qui ne prend pas sa croix, et ne me suit pas, n’est pas digne de moi.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 10:38

• This will allow us to decide on the follow-up.

  Cela nous permettra de décider de la suite des événements.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1017406

• Annex II is amended as follows:

  L'annexe II est modifiée comme suit:

  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 3299994

suivre

Used about 92 446 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 94 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 201 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 155 · UN documents ≈ 75 972). Forms: suivi, suivre.

• We should follow him.

  Nous devrions le suivre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #3918001 #9163156

• I had to follow, clutching at every step.

  Force fut de le suivre en me cramponnant.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 764

• Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

  Seigneur, lui dit Pierre, pourquoi ne puis-je pas te suivre maintenant? Je donnerai ma vie pour toi.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 13:37

• Further steps, however, will have to follow.

  D'autres mesures devront suivre.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 124633

• Joint Follow-Up Expert Group

  Groupe d'experts mixte de suivi

  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 121134

comme

Used about 2 911 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 191 · UN documents ≈ 2 713).

• Let me go on ahead, and follow me so, without seeming to do it.

  Laissez-moi aller devant, et suivez-moi comme cela, sans faire semblant.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19116

• She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”

  Naomi dit à Ruth: Voici, ta belle-sœur est retournée vers son peuple et vers ses dieux; retourne, comme ta belle-sœur.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · RUT 1:15

• As the honourable Member knows, Article 255, formerly Article 191a, of the Treaty establishing the European Community reads as follows:

  Comme l'honorable parlementaire le sait, l'article 255, auparavant l'article 191a, du Traité instituant la Communauté européenne stipule:

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2035095

• Lightweight turbojet, turbofan and turbocompound engines that are small and fuel efficient, as follows:

  Turbo-réacteurs et turbo-propulseurs légers (y compris les turbo-mélangeurs), petits et de faible consommation, comme indiqué ci-après :

  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 9628421

• We shall follow their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to facilitate this tale.

  Nous ferons comme eux, et nous dirons M. Leblanc pour la facilité de ce récit.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15223

More sentences

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

• Rules are made for fools to follow and for wise men to use as a guideline.

  Les règles sont faites pour être suivies par les imbéciles et pour servir de guides aux sages.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Rovo · checked, community translation · #2797345 #2798193

• Let he who loves me follow me!

  Qui m'aime me suive !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and jerom · checked, community translation · #6461777 #433624

• If you want to be slim, follow this diet.

  Si tu veux être mince, suis ce régime.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and Aiji · checked, community translation · #455979 #3259422

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