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# pursue — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: pursue (35 843), pursues (1 798). By style: everyday 14 · literary 2 · biblical 38 · parliamentary 2 809 · legal and administrative 2 204 · UN documents 32 574.

## poursuivre

Used about 12 806 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 1 083 · legal and administrative ≈ 849 · UN documents ≈ 10 858). Forms: poursuit, poursuivre.

- Do you intend to **pursue** your education?
  Comptes-tu **poursuivre** tes études ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2890284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2890284) [\#11267583](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11267583))

- Do you propose to **pursue** the Sioux?”
  Votre intention est-elle de **poursuivre** les Sioux?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2569)

- Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you **pursue** the dry stubble?
  Veux-tu frapper une feuille agitée? Veux-tu **poursuivre** une paille desséchée?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 13:25)

- I do not want to **pursue** this now.
  Je ne veux pas **poursuivre** sur ce point maintenant.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 677554)

- it must not **pursue** profit goals.
  il ne doit pas **poursuivre** de buts lucratifs.
  ([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 3397898)

## politique

Used about 4 954 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 497 · legal and administrative ≈ 46 · UN documents ≈ 4 411).

- It **pursues** an aggressive external trade policy.
  Il existe certaines idées concernant une **politique** commerciale extérieure agressive.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1619107)

- Crédit Mutuel is a group with a single management that **pursues** a global policy.
  Le Crédit mutuel est par ailleurs un groupe doté d’une direction unique poursuivant une **politique** globale.
  ([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 2287242)

- The City of Vienna **pursues** a comprehensive diversity policy.
  La ville de Vienne mène une **politique** globale de promotion de la diversité.
  ([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 27638149)

- I am not surprised that Mr von Wogau **pursues** political integration by these means.
  Je ne suis pas surpris que M. von Wogau poursuive l'intégration **politique** par cette voie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 882203)

- **Pursue** a moderate wage policy and avoid public sector wage increases above productivity gains.
  Maintenir une **politique** salariale modérée et éviter des augmentations de salaire dans la fonction publique qui soient supérieures aux gains de productivité.
  ([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 773902)

## objectifs

Used about 2 543 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 117 · legal and administrative ≈ 390 · UN documents ≈ 2 036).

- We must also better explain how the Union operates and the objectives it **pursues**.
  Nous devons aussi mieux expliquer le fonctionnement et les **objectifs** de l’Union.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 827169)

- The Programme **pursues** the following general objectives:
  Les **objectifs** généraux du programme sont les suivants:
  ([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 870925)

- INVUR **pursues** the following objectives:
  Ses **objectifs** sont les suivants:
  ([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 17193386)

- Perhaps, for once, we should also reflect on the objectives which the WTO **pursues**.
  Peut-être devrions-nous également nous interroger sur les **objectifs** poursuivis par l'OMC.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2042037)

- **pursues** as its primary goal one or more objectives of the programme,
  qui vise en premier lieu à réaliser un ou plusieurs **objectifs** du programme,
  ([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 1662463)

## More sentences

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

- Do not **pursue** the taste of good food.
  Ne recherchez pas le goût de la bonne nourriture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FaridTrad and FaridTrad · checked, community translation · [\#10280361](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10280361) [\#10280363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10280363))

- Mathematics is that branch of science which you could continue to **pursue**, even if you were to get up in the morning and notice that the universe had disappeared.
  Les mathématiques sont la partie de la science, dont vous pourriez vous occuper durablement, lorsque vous vous lèveriez le matin en remarquant, que l'univers a disparu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by human600 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1602453](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1602453) [\#890781](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/890781))

- I plan to **pursue** a career in international finance.
  J'envisage de faire carrière dans la finance internationale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#241415](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/241415) [\#9084121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9084121))

## 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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