toujours — French to English

How French toujours 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: toujours (164 376). By style: everyday 3 958 · literary 211 · biblical 271 · parliamentary 27 998 · legal and administrative 7 145 · UN documents 124 793.

always

Used about 72 093 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 804 · literary ≈ 79 · biblical ≈ 45 · parliamentary ≈ 15 749 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 019 · UN documents ≈ 49 397). Meaning: always in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai toujours été fou.

  I've always been crazy.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and shekitten · checked, community translation · #10273506 #10273690

• L'enfant avait toujours faim.

  The child was always hungry.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25662

• Et moi, j’espérerai toujours, Je te louerai de plus en plus.

  But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 71:14

• C'est toujours un problème, bien sûr.

  That is always a problem, of course.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1406751

• Ces registres doivent toujours être traçables.

  These records must always be traceable.

  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 3085594

still

Used about 23 219 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 825 · literary ≈ 57 · parliamentary ≈ 5 250 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 489 · UN documents ≈ 15 599). Meaning: still in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Es-tu toujours mariée ?

  Are you still married?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #1886317 #2061812

• --Est-ce qu'elle est toujours là?

  “Is she still there?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9954

• Mais de nombreux élevages industriels ne sont toujours pas aux normes.

  However, many factory farms are still not up to standard.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1465600

• Maître-cylindre défectueux, mais freinage toujours opérant.

  Master cylinder defective but brake still operating.

  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 3209160

• M. Mejri est toujours détenu à la prison de Mahdia.

  Mr. Mejri is still being held in Mahdia prison.

  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 29294593

More sentences

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

• C'est l'histoire de ma vie : toujours un jour en retard et pas assez de ronds.

  That's the story of my life: a day late and a dollar short.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and halfb1t · checked, community translation · #2119623 #2120922

• Nous ne pouvons pas garder ce secret pour toujours.

  We can't keep this secret forever.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #6823800 #8185540

• Elle prend toujours le bus lorsqu'il pleut.

  When it rains, she takes the bus.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CH · checked, community translation · #26860 #3236142

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