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# following — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: following (660 060), followings (70). By style: everyday 206 · literary 55 · biblical 49 · parliamentary 15 036 · legal and administrative 183 675 · UN documents 461 109.

## suivant

Used about 348 221 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 69 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 5 325 · legal and administrative ≈ 126 672 · UN documents ≈ 216 145). Forms: suivant, suivantes, suivants.

- Correct the **following** sentences.
  Corrigez les phrases **suivantes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#264326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/264326) [\#497336](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/497336))

- "You will have to go by land, **following** the shore.
  —Il faudra aller par terre, en **suivant** la côte.
  ([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 947)

- Sailing from there, we came the **following** day opposite Chios. The next day we touched at Samos and stayed at Trogyllium, and the day after we came to Miletus.
  De là, continuant par mer, nous arrivâmes le lendemain vis-à-vis de Chios. Le jour **suivant**, nous cinglâmes vers Samos, et le jour d’après nous vînmes à Milet.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 20:15)

- I propose the **following** three steps.
  Je propose les trois mesures **suivantes**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 658690)

- the **following** point is added:
  le point **suivant** est ajouté:
  ([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 3556508)

## ci

Used about 62 448 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 62 442).

- The data to be discussed below was collected in the **following** way.
  Les données à discuter **ci**-dessous ont été collectées de la manière suivante.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Catriona and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#28386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28386) [\#1242142](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1242142))

- Duchesses, the most delicate and charming women in the world, went into ecstasies over couplets like the **following**, addressed to “the federates”:—
  Des duchesses, les plus délicates et les plus charmantes femmes du monde, s'y extasiaient sur des couplets comme celui-**ci** adressé «aux fédérés»:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13123)

- The **followings** are some broad lessons learned:
  Certains de ces enseignements sont récapitulés **ci**-dessous:
  ([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 25162633)

- Besides political conversations which had for their principal subjects the Spanish war and M. le Duc d’Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, like the **following**, were audible amid the uproar:—
  Outre les causeries politiques, qui avaient pour objets principaux la guerre d'Espagne et Mr le duc d'Angoulême, on entendait dans le brouhaha des parenthèses toutes locales comme celles-**ci**:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8020)

- The **followings** are its main recommendations.
  On trouvera **ci**-après les principales recommandations du Comité.
  ([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 26075703)

## après

Used about 34 569 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 253 · legal and administrative ≈ 28 501 · UN documents ≈ 4 803).

- She married the **following** year.
  Elle se maria l'année d'**après**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rafik and Rafik · checked, community translation · [\#12085635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12085635) [\#12081836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12081836))

- On the afternoon **following** the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see Fantine according to his wont.
  Dans l'**après**-midi qui suivit la visite de Javert, M. Madeleine alla voir la Fantine comme d'habitude.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4798)

- He did very abominably in **following** idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
  Il a agi de la manière la plus abominable, en allant **après** les idoles, comme le faisaient les Amoréens, que l’Éternel chassa devant les enfants d’Israël.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 21:26)

- **Following** approval of the 2010 budget, this sum will be paid out at the start of next year.
  **Après** l'approbation du budget 2010, cette somme sera versée au début de l'année prochaine.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1292736)

- For drums, the **following** maximum values shall be met:
  Pour les tambours, les valeurs maximales ci-**après** doivent être respectées:
  ([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 5578644)

## jour

Used about 5 119 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 313 · UN documents ≈ 4 803).

- On the **following** day he did not come.
  Le **jour** d'après, il ne vint pas.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31190)

- The next item is the report (A5-0186/2000) by Mrs Hieronymi, on behalf of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport, concerning the **following**:
  L' ordre du **jour** appelle le rapport (A5-0186/2000) de Mme Hieronymi, au nom de la commission de la culture, de la jeunesse, de l' éducation, des médias et des sports sur
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 75436)

- 98. The religions with the largest **followings** in Kazakhstan are currently Islam and Christianity.
  À ce **jour**, les principales religions pratiquées au Kazakhstan, du point de vue du nombre de fidèles, sont l &apos; islam et le christianisme.
  ([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 27755142)

- On the **following** day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad daylight.
  Le lendemain M. Leblanc et sa fille ne firent au Luxembourg qu'une courte apparition; ils s'en allèrent qu'il faisait grand **jour**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15518)

## 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 only **following** orders.
  Je ne fais qu'obéir aux ordres.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#2544693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2544693) [\#3359551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3359551))

- What does it feel like to always have people **following** you around?
  Comment se sent-on d'être toujours suivi par un entourage ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#954524](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/954524) [\#958310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/958310))

- The **following** year, Portugal granted independence to all of its African colonies.
  L'année suivante, le Portugal offrit l'indépendance à toutes ses colonies africaines.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by The\_World\_Factbook and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#8905559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8905559) [\#12617909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12617909))

## 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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