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# follow — English to French

How English *follow* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: follow (183 709), follows (131 843). By style: everyday 449 · literary 44 · biblical 103 · parliamentary 9 186 · legal and administrative 45 296 · UN documents 260 474.

## suit

Used about 136 248 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 150 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 1 722 · legal and administrative ≈ 23 120 · UN documents ≈ 111 244). Forms: suit, suite.

- Night always **follows** day.
  La nuit **suit** toujours le jour.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#277575](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277575) [\#129354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129354))

- Paris **follows** this example with all the stupidity peculiar to intelligent towns.
  Cet exemple, Paris le **suit**, avec toute la bêtise propre aux villes d'esprit.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27310)

- He who doesn’t take his cross and **follow** after me isn’t worthy of me.
  celui qui ne prend pas sa croix, et ne me **suit** pas, n’est pas digne de moi.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 10:38)

- This will allow us to decide on the **follow**-up.
  Cela nous permettra de décider de la **suite** des événements.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1017406)

- Annex II is amended as **follows**:
  L'annexe II est modifiée comme **suit**:
  ([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 3299994)

## suivre

Used about 92 446 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 94 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 2 201 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 155 · UN documents ≈ 75 972). Forms: suivi, suivre.

- We should **follow** him.
  Nous devrions le **suivre**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#3918001](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3918001) [\#9163156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9163156))

- I had to **follow**, clutching at every step.
  Force fut de le **suivre** en me cramponnant.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 764)

- Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I **follow** you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
  Seigneur, lui dit Pierre, pourquoi ne puis-je pas te **suivre** maintenant? Je donnerai ma vie pour toi.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 13:37)

- Further steps, however, will have to **follow**.
  D'autres mesures devront **suivre**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 124633)

- Joint **Follow**-Up Expert Group
  Groupe d'experts mixte de **suivi**
  ([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 121134)

## comme

Used about 2 911 times in the texts (literary ≈ 5 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 191 · UN documents ≈ 2 713).

- Let me go on ahead, and **follow** me so, without seeming to do it.
  Laissez-moi aller devant, et suivez-moi **comme** cela, sans faire semblant.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19116)

- She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. **Follow** your sister-in-law.”
  Naomi dit à Ruth: Voici, ta belle-sœur est retournée vers son peuple et vers ses dieux; retourne, **comme** ta belle-sœur.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · RUT 1:15)

- As the honourable Member knows, Article 255, formerly Article 191a, of the Treaty establishing the European Community reads as **follows**:
  **Comme** l'honorable parlementaire le sait, l'article 255, auparavant l'article 191a, du Traité instituant la Communauté européenne stipule:
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2035095)

- Lightweight turbojet, turbofan and turbocompound engines that are small and fuel efficient, as **follows**:
  Turbo-réacteurs et turbo-propulseurs légers (y compris les turbo-mélangeurs), petits et de faible consommation, **comme** indiqué ci-après :
  ([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 9628421)

- We shall **follow** their example, and we shall say M. Leblanc, in order to facilitate this tale.
  Nous ferons **comme** eux, et nous dirons M. Leblanc pour la facilité de ce récit.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15223)

## More sentences

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

- Rules are made for fools to **follow** and for wise men to use as a guideline.
  Les règles sont faites pour être suivies par les imbéciles et pour servir de guides aux sages.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#2797345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2797345) [\#2798193](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2798193))

- Let he who loves me **follow** me!
  Qui m'aime me suive !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and jerom · checked, community translation · [\#6461777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6461777) [\#433624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/433624))

- If you want to be slim, **follow** this diet.
  Si tu veux être mince, suis ce régime.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#455979](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/455979) [\#3259422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259422))

## 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/).

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