continuer — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: continuaient (4 916), continuait (5 569), continue (112 756), continuent (57 207), continuer (140 631), continues (4 795), continuez (276), continuons (3 880), continué (49 954), continuée (76), continuées (27), continués (14). By style: everyday 752 · literary 44 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 17 720 · legal and administrative 17 616 · UN documents 343 939.

continue

Used about 297 578 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 220 · literary ≈ 34 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 11 397 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 639 · UN documents ≈ 273 285). Forms: continue, continued, continues, continuing, continuous. Meaning: continue in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Eh bien continuons !

  Well, let's continue!

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and rul · checked, community translation · #13342237 #1156633

• --Je continue, dit-il.

  “I continue,” said he.

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

• Et ils dirent: C’est son ange. Cependant Pierre continuait à frapper. Ils ouvrirent, et furent étonnés de le voir.

  But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him and were amazed.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 12:16

• Madame Alfano, continuez je vous prie.

  Ms Alfano, please continue.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1460106

• Obligations continues de la BCE

  Continuing obligations of the ECB

  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 2773208

still

Used about 16 539 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 24 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 913 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 269 · UN documents ≈ 13 331). Meaning: still in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je continue d'apprendre.

  I'm still learning.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Thomz and CM · checked, community translation · #5757500 #5761536

• Il continuait de ne plus tutoyer Jean Valjean.

  He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as thou.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28255

• Il n'en reste pas moins que l'on continue à vivre et le soleil à briller.

  Nonetheless we survive and the sun still shines.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1725812

• Des briquets ne présentant pas des caractéristiques de sécurité enfants continuent d’être mis sur le marché.

  Lighters that are not child-resistant are still being placed on the market.

  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 2777425

• Nous continuons à le penser.

  We still are of this view.

  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 14559580

More sentences

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

• Tu ne peux pas continuer à me traiter comme un enfant.

  You can't keep treating me like a kid.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1952040 #1952193

• Il nous faut juste continuer à parler.

  We've just got to keep talking.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #5531682 #12855558

• Tu ne peux pas continuer à faire ceci à Tom.

  You can't keep doing this to Tom.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mervert1 and CK · checked, community translation · #1952018 #13790663

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