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# remains — English to French

How English *remains* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: remains (93 925). By style: everyday 91 · literary 18 · biblical 63 · parliamentary 6 549 · legal and administrative 4 089 · UN documents 83 115.

## reste

Used about 36 114 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 61 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 3 411 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 448 · UN documents ≈ 31 168).

- It **remains** to be seen.
  Cela **reste** à voir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#10648315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10648315) [\#10302912](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10302912))

- “The empty coffin **remains**.”
  --Il **reste** la bière vide.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11720)

- So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there **remains** only falsehood?”
  Pourquoi donc m’offrir de vaines consolations? Ce qui **reste** de vos réponses n’est que perfidie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 21:34)

- This **remains** an important point.
  Ceci **reste** un point important.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1023296)

- Nevertheless, the situation of the Union industry **remains** fragile.
  Néanmoins, la situation de l'industrie de l'Union **reste** fragile.
  ([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 3636991)

## demeure

Used about 20 764 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 25 · parliamentary ≈ 1 092 · legal and administrative ≈ 596 · UN documents ≈ 19 047).

- Despite all his setbacks, he **remains** an optimist.
  Malgré tous ses revers, il **demeure** optimiste.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#676320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/676320) [\#809025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809025))

- If we are faithless, he **remains** faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”
  si nous sommes infidèles, il **demeure** fidèle, car il ne peut se renier lui-même.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2TI 2:13)

- The question is and **remains**: is it to the consumer's benefit?
  La question est et **demeure** la suivante: est-ce au profit du consommateur?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1097397)

- It **remains** the foundation of an efficient energy market.
  Il **demeure** le fondement d'un marché de l'énergie efficient.
  ([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 4964143)

- 86. The follow-up of those actions, however, **remains** unsatisfactory.
  86. Ce processus de suivi **demeure** cependant peu satisfaisant.
  ([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 1488694)

## encore

Used about 1 992 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 256 · UN documents ≈ 1 732).

- Western Sahara **remains** an undecolonized territory.
  Le Sahara occidental deumeure un territoire pas **encore** décolonisé.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10896751](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10896751) [\#10963003](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10963003))

- “What else **remains**?”
  --Qu'y a-t-il donc **encore**?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11719)

- He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that **remains** to this day.
  Il fit pendre à un bois le roi d’Aï, et l’y laissa jusqu’au soir. Au coucher du soleil, Josué ordonna qu’on descendît son cadavre du bois; on le jeta à l’entrée de la porte de la ville, et l’on éleva sur lui un grand monceau de pierres, qui subsiste **encore** aujourd’hui.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOS 8:29)

- Sheiman **remains** a Special Assistant/Aid to the President.
  Sheiman est **encore** chargé de mission/assistant du président.
  ([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 3799584)

- There **remains** an unacceptable level of violence and use of weapons.
  La violence et le recours aux armes restent **encore** à un niveau inacceptable.
  ([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 6038035)

## faire

Used about 1 871 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 136 · UN documents ≈ 1 732).

- My homework **remains** to be done.
  Mon devoir est à **faire**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by al\_ex\_an\_der and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#251196](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/251196) [\#974727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/974727))

- But one thing **remains** for you to do: to think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you.
  Vous n'avez plus qu'une chose à **faire**, penser à elle si fixement qu'elle soit contrainte de penser à vous.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20218)

- As we are all aware, a lot **remains** to be done in this respect.
  À cet égard, il y a fort à **faire**, comme nous le savons tous.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 905922)

- The United States **remains** committed to achieving the safety and security of a world without nuclear weapons.
  Les États-Unis demeurent résolus à **faire** régner la sûreté et la sécurité dans un monde exempt d &apos; armes nucléaires.
  ([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 27370590)

## beaucoup

Used about 1 733 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · UN documents ≈ 1 732).

- There were a lot of human **remains** in that place.
  Il y avait **beaucoup** de restes humains dans ce lieu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#3991525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3991525) [\#3991623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3991623))

- Much **remains** to be done.
  Il y a encore **beaucoup** à faire.
  ([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 21617929)

## More sentences

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

- The suspect **remains** at large.
  Le suspect est toujours en vadrouille.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3677125](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3677125) [\#3678019](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3678019))

- The only thing that **remains** unknown to man is man himself.
  L'homme n'a rien de plus inconnu autour de lui que l'homme même.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5664785](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5664785) [\#5658694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5658694))

- The hype machine **remains** in overdrive.
  Le battage médiatique tourne toujours à plein régime.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#13413073](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13413073) [\#13413074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13413074))

## 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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