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# along — English to French

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

What it means: [along in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/along/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: along (63 087). By style: everyday 429 · literary 63 · biblical 72 · parliamentary 7 149 · legal and administrative 3 837 · UN documents 51 537.

## long

Used about 10 366 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 107 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 447 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 199 · UN documents ≈ 8 590).

- He walked **along** the street.
  Il chemina le **long** de la rue.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#301689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/301689) [\#658797](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/658797))

- The hackney-coach rolled **along** the trees of the Champs-Élysées.
  Le fiacre roulait le **long** des arbres des Champs-Élysées.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27756)

- Passing **along** by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
  Comme il passait le **long** de la mer de Galilée, il vit Simon et André, frère de Simon, qui jetaient un filet dans la mer; car ils étaient pêcheurs.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 1:16)

- Why are rail lines not being laid at the same time **along** these roads?
  Pourquoi ne pas tracer de nouvelles lignes ferroviaires en même temps, le **long** de ces routes?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 721167)

- 5 Area view **along** torso reference plane
  5 Vue en plan le **long** du plan de référence du torse
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 5432780)

## More sentences

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

- I'm sure he'll be **along** soon.
  Je suis sûr qu'il va bientôt arriver.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and tieguy · checked, community translation · [\#292940](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/292940) [\#13865199](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13865199))

- Yesterday, as I was walking **along** the street, I saw an accident.
  Hier, alors que je marchais dans la rue, j'ai vu un accident.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#244341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/244341) [\#1540189](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1540189))

- How are the negotiations coming **along**?
  Alors, ces négociations, ça avance ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#4017261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4017261) [\#4017751](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4017751))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

## About these examples

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