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# still — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: still (184 979), stills (19). By style: everyday 2 675 · literary 238 · biblical 167 · parliamentary 34 375 · legal and administrative 8 989 · UN documents 138 554.

## encore

Used about 78 345 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 692 · literary ≈ 124 · biblical ≈ 84 · parliamentary ≈ 14 031 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 374 · UN documents ≈ 60 040).

- Is Tom **still** living?
  Tom vit-il **encore** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#4500710](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4500710) [\#9889198](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9889198))

- The rope ladder was **still** shaking.
  L'échelle de corde tremblait **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 17923)

- For if you refuse to let them go, and hold them **still**,
  Si tu refuses de le laisser aller, et si tu le retiens **encore**,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EXO 9:2)

- Some other matters **still** need to be settled.
  Il reste **encore** d'autres problèmes à régler.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1419125)

- Carrying amount of assets **still** recognised \[continuing involvement\]
  Valeur comptable des actifs **encore** comptabilisés \[poursuite de l’engagement\]
  ([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 5169505)

## toujours

Used about 27 293 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 764 · literary ≈ 45 · parliamentary ≈ 6 314 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 696 · UN documents ≈ 18 474).

- He's **still** alive.
  Il est **toujours** en vie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2030113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2030113) [\#2031180](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2031180))

- "And does the compass **still** show south-east?"
  —Et la boussole indique **toujours** le sud-est?
  ([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 2697)

- Barbaric punishments are **still** being carried out.
  Des peines abominables sont **toujours** d'application.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 382880)

- He was **still** an active Taliban insurgency leader as at March 2009.
  En mars 2009, il jouait **toujours** un rôle actif à la tête de l'insurrection des Taliban.
  ([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 2279346)

- If smugglers are **still** getting through they need to be stopped.
  Si les contrebandiers réussissent **toujours** à passer, il faut les arrêter.
  ([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 2578698)

## mais

Used about 3 599 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 55 · literary ≈ 15 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 702 · legal and administrative ≈ 509 · UN documents ≈ 2 309).

- The calf has disappeared, but there is **still** a cow.
  Le veau a disparu, **mais** il reste la vache.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharris123 and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#7808091](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7808091) [\#11945502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11945502))

- He was dilapidated but **still** in flower.
  Il était délabré, **mais** tout en fleurs.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2748)

- But Jesus answered them, “My Father is **still** working, so I am working, too.”
  **Mais** Jésus leur répondit: Mon Père agit jusqu’à présent; moi aussi, j’agis.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 5:17)

- But there is **still** a great deal to be done.
  **Mais** il reste beaucoup à faire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1593599)

- Prices **still** increased, although to a lesser extent (+ 5 %), in the RIP.
  Les prix ont continué à augmenter durant la PER, **mais** à un rythme moins soutenu (+ 5 %).
  ([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 2209105)

## More sentences

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

- No point in threatening me. I'll **still** tell you nothing.
  Inutile de me menacer, je ne dirai rien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by FeuDRenais and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#486986](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/486986) [\#334559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/334559))

- There's **still** a long way to go.
  Il reste un long chemin à parcourir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by liaison and liaison · checked, community translation · [\#1369421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1369421) [\#1369420](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1369420))

- **Stills** from science fiction films hang on the walls.
  Des clichés tirés de films de science-fiction sont accrochés aux murs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ToxicFriu and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11045480](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11045480) [\#11045486](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11045486))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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