going — English to French

How English going is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: going in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: going (46 418), goings (52). By style: everyday 6 301 · literary 173 · biblical 129 · parliamentary 19 772 · legal and administrative 2 075 · UN documents 18 020.

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Used about 4 619 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 575 · literary ≈ 35 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 685 · legal and administrative ≈ 43 · UN documents ≈ 277).

• Where's this train going?

  Où va ce train ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · #9001335 #607731

• “Where is it going then?”

  --Où va-t-elle donc?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29690

• But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

  Mais celui qui hait son frère est dans les ténèbres, il marche dans les ténèbres, et il ne sait où il va, parce que les ténèbres ont aveuglé ses yeux.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1JO 2:11

• And what is the British Presidency going to do about this?

  Et que va entreprendre la présidence britannique à cet égard?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1799315

• AIB will notify the Relevant Competitor in writing whether it has been successful in its application and that its Material is going to be mailed by AIB.

  AIB indiquera par écrit au concurrent concerné si sa candidature a été retenue et l'informera qu'elle va procéder au publipostage de son matériel publicitaire.

  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 3461996

vais

Used about 2 460 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 444 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 976).

• I'm going to do it again.

  Je vais le refaire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · #2545409 #9081282

• “Then I’m going to tell you everything—”

  --Alors je vais tout vous avouer...

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1432

• But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

  Présentement je vais à Jérusalem, pour le service des saints.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 15:25

• I do not think that he is here to listen to my reply, but I am nevertheless going to give it.

  Je ne crois pas qu'il soit là pour écouter ma réponse, mais je vais quand même la donner.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 264564

• I'm going to make a drink.

  Je vais préparer un verre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #27115 #3645762

More sentences

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

• If you are going to go to America, you should brush up your Portuguese.

  Si tu te rends en Amérique, tu devrais réviser ton portugais.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1452015 #1452017

• What on earth is going on here?

  Que Diable se passe-t-il donc ici ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5920843 #5134931

• He reads before going to sleep.

  Il lit avant de dormir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Cocorico · checked, community translation · #8838755 #746252

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