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# continuation — English to French

How English *continuation* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: continuation (26 544), continuations (18). By style: everyday 2 · literary 3 · parliamentary 1 363 · legal and administrative 3 550 · UN documents 21 644.

## poursuite

Used about 5 988 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 382 · legal and administrative ≈ 284 · UN documents ≈ 5 322).

- Here are some guiding principles for the **continuation** of your work.
  Voici quelques principes qui devraient guider la **poursuite** de votre travail.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1278595)

- **Continuation** for 1 year without refinancing of due debt
  **Poursuite** des activités pendant 1 an sans refinancement de la dette
  ([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 1720595)

- 10 00 hours **Continuation** of TC session
  10 h 00 **Poursuite** de la session du Comité du bois
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 15484155)

- As to the future, we are promised a **continuation** of current policies.
  Quant à l'avenir, la politique promise est la **poursuite** de celle qui est menée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 184526)

- Conflict Prevention and Mediation Support Services (**continuation**)
  Services de prévention des conflits et de soutien à la médiation (**poursuite**)
  ([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 3784373)

## débat

Used about 3 548 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 548).

- **Continuation** of general discussion
  Suite du **débat** général
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 5310844)

- **Continuation** of the general debate \[9\]
  Suite du **débat** général \[9\]
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 5307075)

- 6. **Continuation** of the general debate \[8\]
  6. Suite du **débat** général \[8\]
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 17623445)

- **Continuation** and conclusion of the general discussion
  Suite et fin du **débat** général
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4166612)

- **Continuation** and conclusion of general discussion on:
  Suite et fin du **débat** général sur :
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 15919969)

## continuation

Used about 3 333 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 136 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 775 · UN documents ≈ 1 419).

- War is the **continuation** of politics by other means.
  La guerre est la **continuation** de la politique par d'autres moyens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5842423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5842423) [\#8191594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8191594))

- “It is a **continuation** of her slumber.”
  --C'est une **continuation** de sommeil.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11550)

- Reconciliation is a long-term process and I support the **continuation** of the PEACE programme.
  La réconciliation est un processus à long terme, et je soutiens la **continuation** du programme PEACE.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1077355)

- Likelihood of **continuation** of dumping
  Probabilité de **continuation** du dumping
  ([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 4998219)

- **Continuation** of general discussion
  **Continuation** of general discussion
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 2089323)

## suite

Used about 1 802 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 382 · UN documents ≈ 1 419).

- Gringoire firmly believed that he had been in a dream ever since morning, and that this was the **continuation** of it.
  Gringoire ici crut fermement qu'il n'avait fait qu'un rêve depuis le matin, et que ceci en était la **suite**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1473)

- Explanations of vote (**continuation**)
  Explications de vote (**suite**)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1301338)

- **Continuation** and conclusion of item 9
  **Suite** et fin de l &apos; examen du point 9
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9250642)

- Abduction of children (**continuation**)
  Enlèvements d'enfants (**suite**)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1622154)

- Many of the activities are **continuations** of activities included in the report on the coordination of space-related activities for the period 2007-2008 (A/AC.105/886).
  Nombre d &apos; entre elles font **suite** à des activités mentionnées dans le rapport sur la coordination des activités concernant l &apos; espace pour la période 2007-2008 (A/AC.105/886).
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 18297182)

## More sentences

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

- Tarrasch used to say that if we fully understand the typical mating **continuations**, the more complicated sacrificial combinations for this purpose become almost obvious.
  Tarrasch disait que si l'on comprend parfaitement les suites typiques visant à l'échec et mat, les combinaisons de sacrifices les plus compliquées à cet effet deviennent presque évidentes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12577849](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12577849) [\#12577890](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12577890))

- He had made the latter a sign to seat himself on a stool near the door, and, after several moments of a silence which appeared to be a **continuation** of a preceding meditation, he said to him in a rather patronizing way, “Good day, Master Jacques.”
  Il lui avait fait signe de s'asseoir sur un escabeau voisin de la porte, et, après quelques moments d'un silence qui semblait continuer une méditation antérieure, il lui avait dit avec quelque protection: «Bonjour, maître Jacques.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4283)

- The pretext of setting up an evaluation study does not justify the suspension of appropriations whose **continuation** is the guarantee of success.
  Le prétexte de la mise en place d' une étude d' évaluation ne justifie pas de suspendre les crédits dont la continuité est le gage de la réussite.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2020069)

## Grammar

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