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# follows — English to French

How English *follows* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: follows (131 843). By style: everyday 59 · literary 10 · biblical 12 · parliamentary 2 492 · legal and administrative 38 003 · UN documents 91 267.

## suit

Used about 86 158 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 39 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 415 · legal and administrative ≈ 32 461 · UN documents ≈ 53 239).

- 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)

- Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who **follows** me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
  Jésus leur parla de nouveau, et dit: Je suis la lumière du monde; celui qui me **suit** ne marchera pas dans les ténèbres, mais il aura la lumière de la vie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 8:12)

- It has been requested that the draft be amended as **follows**:
  Il a été demandé de modifier le projet comme **suit**:
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 911435)

- 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)

## ci

Used about 7 606 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 7 606).

- The working paper read as **follows**:
  Le texte en est reproduit **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 8615870)

- A description of each sequential step **follows**.
  Les différentes étapes suivies sont indiquées **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 10558104)

- Various developments in this context can be reported as **follows**.
  578. Les différentes modifications intervenues dans ce contexte sont présentées **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 8004480)

- 198. The consultancy requirements for 2009/10 are as **follows**:
  Les ressources demandées au titre des consultants pour l &apos; exercice 2008/09 sont indiquées **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 19752358)

## comme

Used about 2 007 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 104 · UN documents ≈ 1 901).

- Being, as he described himself with a smile, an ex-sinner, he had none of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a doctrine which may be summed up as **follows**:—
  Étant, **comme** il se qualifiait lui-même en souriant, un ex-pécheur, il n'avait aucun des escarpements du rigorisme, et il professait assez haut, et sans le froncement de sourcil des vertueux féroces, une doctrine qu'on pourrait résumer à peu près ainsi:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 160)

- 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)

- He talked a long time about his age, his infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, of the increasing demands of his work, of the great size of the garden, of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, and he wound up as **follows**: “That he had a brother”—(the prioress made a movement),—“a brother no longer young”—(a second movement on the part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),—“that, if he might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive from him good service, better than his own; that, otherwise, if his brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little daughter whom he would bring with him, who might be reared for God in the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day.”
  Il parla longuement de son âge, de ses infirmités, de la surcharge des années comptant double désormais pour lui, des exigences croissantes du travail, de la grandeur du jardin, des nuits à passer, **comme** la dernière, par exemple, où il avait fallu mettre des paillassons sur les melonnières à cause de la lune, et il finit par aboutir à ceci: qu'il avait un frère,--(la prieure fit un mouvement)--un frère point jeune,--(second mouvement de la prieure, mais mouvement rassuré)--que, si on le voulait bien, ce frère pourrait venir loger avec lui et l'aider, qu'il était excellent jardinier, que la communauté en tirerait de bons services, meilleurs que les siens à lui;--que, autrement, si l'on n'admettait point son frère, comme, lui, l'aîné, il se sentait cassé, et insuffisant à la besogne, il serait, avec bien du regret, obligé de s'en aller;--et que son frère avait une petite fille qu'il amènerait avec lui, qui s'élèverait en Dieu dans la maison, et qui peut-être, qui sait? ferait une religieuse un 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 11407)

- Like any monopoly, it has to be seen in a context and, in this case, the context **follows** from the Treaty and the Interinstitutional Agreements.
  **Comme** tout monopole, il faut l'envisager dans un contexte et, en l'occurrence, celui-ci découle du traité et des accords interinstitutionnels.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 955973)

## More sentences

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

- If your answer is correct, it **follows** that mine is wrong.
  Si ta réponse est correcte, cela signifie que la mienne est incorrecte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#16954](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16954) [\#1224874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224874))

- Granting that it is so, what **follows**?
  En admettant qu'il en soit ainsi, que s'ensuit-il ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by SadeN and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#25338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/25338) [\#846947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/846947))

- If your answer is correct, it **follows** that mine is wrong.
  Si ta réponse est correcte, il s'ensuit que la mienne est incorrecte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#16954](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16954) [\#1224934](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224934))

## Grammar

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