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# pursued — English to French

How English *pursued* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: pursued (22 243). By style: everyday 13 · literary 33 · biblical 34 · parliamentary 1 504 · legal and administrative 1 851 · UN documents 18 808.

## poursuivi

Used about 3 382 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 251 · legal and administrative ≈ 771 · UN documents ≈ 2 351). Forms: poursuivi, poursuivis.

- The detectives **pursued** him.
  Les inspecteurs l'ont **poursuivi**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CS and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#237817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/237817) [\#8422112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8422112))

- After which, I was hunted down, **pursued**, persecuted, blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed.
  Après quoi j'ai été chassé, traqué, **poursuivi**, persécuté, noirci, raillé, conspué, maudit, proscrit.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 973)

- “You have covered us with anger and **pursued** us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
  Tu t’es caché dans ta colère, et tu nous as **poursuivis**; Tu as tué sans miséricorde;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 3:43)

- That is a key objective that the Commission and I myself have **pursued**.
  Voilà un objectif clé que nous avons **poursuivi**, la Commission et moi-même.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 751570)

- is proportionate to the objective **pursued**;
  soit proportionnelle à l'objectif **poursuivi**,
  ([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 888259)

## More sentences

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

- And he took his brethren with him, and **pursued** after him seven days; and overtook him in the mount of Galaad.
  Il prit avec lui ses frères, le poursuivit sept journées de marche, et l’atteignit à la montagne de Galaad.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#7827208](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7827208) [\#8088481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8088481))

- They **pursued** the enemy as far as the river.
  Ils ont pourchassé l'ennemi jusqu'à la rivière.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2890226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2890226) [\#11482602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11482602))

- The dog **pursued** a rabbit into the forest.
  Le chien poursuivait un lapin dans la forêt.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GeeZ · checked, community translation · [\#239157](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239157) [\#1254291](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1254291))

## Grammar

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