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# always — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: always (66 576). By style: everyday 2 915 · literary 111 · biblical 85 · parliamentary 16 018 · legal and administrative 3 366 · UN documents 44 081.

## toujours

Used about 50 595 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 733 · literary ≈ 99 · biblical ≈ 51 · parliamentary ≈ 13 682 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 805 · UN documents ≈ 31 224).

- I'm **always** tired.
  Je suis **toujours** fatigué.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by turnips and Maxence · checked, community translation · [\#2762712](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2762712) [\#7699694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7699694))

- The child was **always** hungry.
  L'enfant avait **toujours** faim.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25662)

- They said therefore to him, “Lord, **always** give us this bread.”
  Ils lui dirent: Seigneur, donne-nous **toujours** ce pain.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 6:34)

- I have **always** observed the law.
  J'ai **toujours** respecté le droit.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1520424)

- The heating can **always** be restarted.
  Le chauffage peut **toujours** être remis en marche.
  ([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 426959)

## 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 **always** ready to help you.
  Je t'aide quand tu veux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Tcha · checked, community translation · [\#6873110](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6873110) [\#10692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10692))

- Tom **always** goes to school by bicycle.
  Tom va tout le temps à l'école à vélo.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6871328](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6871328) [\#6872232](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6872232))

- Tom said that Mary **always** does that.
  Tom a dit que Mary le faisait tout le temps.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6436230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6436230) [\#6461745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6461745))

## 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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