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# poursuivi — French to English

How French *poursuivi* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations 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: poursuivi (23 289), poursuivie (6 663), poursuivies (6 063), poursuivis (12 296). By style: everyday 54 · literary 2 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 1 970 · legal and administrative 2 827 · UN documents 43 449.

## continued

Used about 24 415 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 431 · legal and administrative ≈ 663 · UN documents ≈ 23 309).

- Je **poursuivis** ma lecture.
  I **continued** to read.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#5279697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5279697) [\#1314142](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1314142))

- Puis elle s'était assise sur le banc près du perron, et pendant qu'il prenait place tout tremblant auprès d'elle, elle avait **poursuivi**:
  Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he tremblingly took his place beside her, she had **continued**:—
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22194)

- Cet effort doit être **poursuivi** et largement amplifié.
  This effort must be **continued** and increased manifold.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 166265)

- Cette évolution s'est **poursuivie** en 2017.
  That development **continued** in 2017.
  ([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 4689157)

- Les vols de bétail se sont également **poursuivis**.
  Robberies of livestock also **continued**.
  ([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 12521141)

## prosecuted

Used about 7 195 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 133 · legal and administrative ≈ 44 · UN documents ≈ 7 015).

- Prigozhin ne sera pas **poursuivi** en justice.
  Prigozhin won't be **prosecuted**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11880883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11880883) [\#12480373](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12480373))

- Si tel est le cas, elles doivent être **poursuivies**.
  If they are, they should be **prosecuted** for it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1466744)

- Veiller à ce que tous les crimes à caractère ethnique soient dûment instruits et **poursuivis**.
  Ensure all cases of ethnically motivated crimes are properly investigated and **prosecuted**.
  ([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 780075)

- Des agents du gouvernement sont-ils impliqués dans les faits de ce type **poursuivis**?
  Were officials involved in such acts **prosecuted**?
  ([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 15035916)

- Il sera **poursuivi** avec toute la sévérité de la loi.
  He will be **prosecuted** to the full extent of the law.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#747250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/747250) [\#800224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/800224))

## pursued

Used about 3 338 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 328 · legal and administrative ≈ 736 · UN documents ≈ 2 263).

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

- Après quoi j'ai été chassé, traqué, **poursuivi**, persécuté, noirci, raillé, conspué, maudit, proscrit.
  After which, I was hunted down, **pursued**, persecuted, blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed.
  ([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)

- Tu t’es caché dans ta colère, et tu nous as **poursuivis**; Tu as tué sans miséricorde;
  “You have covered us with anger and **pursued** us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
  ([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)

- Au delà de cela, de nombreuses options politiques peuvent être **poursuivies** avec succès.
  Beyond that there are many political options that can fruitfully be **pursued**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 56564)

- sont proportionnées aux objectifs **poursuivis**,
  are proportionate to the objectives **pursued**,
  ([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 804864)

## More sentences

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

- Dan a été **poursuivi** par un de ses anciens locataires.
  Dan was sued by one of his former tenants.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#3991441](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3991441) [\#3991693](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3991693))

- La malchance l'a **poursuivi** toute sa vie.
  Misfortune dogged him all his life.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and kemushi69 · checked, community translation · [\#5154799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5154799) [\#11568194](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11568194))

- Le chien a **poursuivi** l'écureuil.
  The dog chased the squirrel.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#7697551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7697551) [\#7745866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7745866))

## Grammar

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