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# continue — French to English

How French *continue* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: continue (112 756), continues (4 795). By style: everyday 191 · literary 6 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 5 388 · legal and administrative 7 157 · UN documents 104 804.

## continue

Used about 95 488 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 3 255 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 846 · UN documents ≈ 87 337). Forms: continue, continued, continues, continuing, continuous. Meaning: [continue in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/continue/).

- Ça **continue** à croître.
  It **continues** to grow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and maruchi13 · checked, community translation · [\#2903360](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2903360) [\#4895948](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4895948))

- --Je **continue**, dit-il.
  “I **continue**,” said he.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17540)

- Je **continue** de compter sur votre soutien dans cet effort majeur.
  In this major effort, I **continue** to count on your strong support.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1331175)

- Obligations **continues** de la BCE
  **Continuing** obligations of the ECB
  ([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 2773208)

- Amélioration **continue** et gestion de la qualité
  **Continuous** Improvement and Quality Management
  ([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 8210542)

## More sentences

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

- Le cerveau pense, la vie **continue**.
  The brain thinks, life goes on.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by josivangoncalves and josivangoncalves · checked, community translation · [\#8202838](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8202838) [\#8202839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8202839))

- **Continue** à travailler pendant que je ne suis pas là.
  Keep on working when I am not there.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#1748923](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1748923) [\#541081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/541081))

- L'histoire de Tom **continue** à changer.
  Tom's story keeps changing.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3579789](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3579789) [\#3580329](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3580329))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

## About these examples

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