pursued — English to French

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

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Sentence pairs counted, by form: pursued (22 243). By style: everyday 13 · literary 33 · biblical 34 · parliamentary 1 504 · legal and administrative 1 851 · UN documents 18 808.

poursuivi

Used about 3 382 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 251 · legal and administrative ≈ 771 · UN documents ≈ 2 351). Forms: poursuivi, poursuivis.

• The detectives pursued him.

  Les inspecteurs l'ont poursuivi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CS and lbdx · checked, community translation · #237817 #8422112

• After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed.

  Après quoi j'ai été chassé, traqué, poursuivi, persécuté, noirci, raillé, conspué, maudit, proscrit.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 973

• “You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.

  Tu t’es caché dans ta colère, et tu nous as poursuivis; Tu as tué sans miséricorde;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:43

• That is a key objective that the Commission and I myself have pursued.

  Voilà un objectif clé que nous avons poursuivi, la Commission et moi-même.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 751570

• is proportionate to the objective pursued;

  soit proportionnelle à l'objectif poursuivi,

  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 888259

More sentences

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

• And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.

  Il prit avec lui ses frères, le poursuivit sept journées de marche, et l’atteignit à la montagne de Galaad.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #7827208 #8088481

• They pursued the enemy as far as the river.

  Ils ont pourchassé l'ennemi jusqu'à la rivière.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and lbdx · checked, community translation · #2890226 #11482602

• The dog pursued a rabbit into the forest.

  Le chien poursuivait un lapin dans la forêt.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GeeZ · checked, community translation · #239157 #1254291

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