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# suivre — French to English

How French *suivre* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: suivre (94 995). By style: everyday 265 · literary 28 · biblical 35 · parliamentary 6 082 · legal and administrative 5 023 · UN documents 83 562.

## follow

Used about 25 693 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 155 · literary ≈ 19 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 1 901 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 721 · UN documents ≈ 20 891). Forms: follow, followed. Meaning: [follow in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/follow/).

- Tom aurait pu nous **suivre**.
  Tom could've **followed** us.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6834720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6834720) [\#6835341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6835341))

- Force fut de le **suivre** en me cramponnant.
  I had to **follow**, clutching at every step.
  ([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 764)

- J’ai dit à mon seigneur: Peut-être la femme ne voudra-t-elle pas me **suivre**.
  I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not **follow** me?’
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 24:39)

- Voilà qui clôture mon intervention. Je vais maintenant **suivre** le débat avec intérêt.
  That brings me to the end of my statement and I shall **follow** the debate with interest.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1249430)

- les méthodes à **suivre**,
  methods to be **followed**
  ([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 2022604)

## way

Used about 9 614 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 887 · UN documents ≈ 8 704). Meaning: [way in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/way/).

- La flèche indique le chemin à **suivre**.
  The arrow indicates the **way** to go.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and CK · checked, community translation · [\#324147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324147) [\#1166812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1166812))

- Éloigne de moi la voie du mensonge, Et accorde-moi la grâce de **suivre** ta loi!
  Keep me from the **way** of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:29)

- Je pense aussi que le multilatéralisme est la voie à **suivre** et je suis heureux que la Commission ait défendu cet avis.
  I also believe that multilateralism is the **way** forward and I am pleased that the Commission has maintained this position.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 678064)

- Il a reconnu que la seule voie à **suivre** était celle de la paix et de la réconciliation.
  It recognized that the only **way** forward was that of peace and reconciliation.
  ([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 25683952)

- Tu n'as pas à te faire comprendre du reste du monde. Tu dois juste **suivre** ta route.
  You don't have to understand the world, you just have to find your **way** around.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by avqXb0uv and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#752186](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/752186) [\#2500406](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2500406))

## More sentences

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

- Cliquez ici pour **suivre** votre colis.
  To track your parcel, click here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13002613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002613) [\#13002609](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002609))

- Je vais faire des courses. Tu veux me **suivre** ?
  I'm going to run a couple of errands. Wanna tag along?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#602006](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/602006) [\#817831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/817831))

- Cliquez ici pour **suivre** votre colis.
  To track your package, click here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13002612](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002612) [\#13002609](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13002609))

## 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/).

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