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# toujours — French to English

How French *toujours* 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: toujours (164 376). By style: everyday 3 958 · literary 211 · biblical 271 · parliamentary 27 998 · legal and administrative 7 145 · UN documents 124 793.

## always

Used about 72 093 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 804 · literary ≈ 79 · biblical ≈ 45 · parliamentary ≈ 15 749 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 019 · UN documents ≈ 49 397). Meaning: [always in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/always/).

- J'ai **toujours** été fou.
  I've **always** been crazy.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#10273506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10273506) [\#10273690](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10273690))

- L'enfant avait **toujours** faim.
  The child was **always** hungry.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 25662)

- Et moi, j’espérerai **toujours**, Je te louerai de plus en plus.
  But I will **always** hope, and will add to all of your praise.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 71:14)

- C'est **toujours** un problème, bien sûr.
  That is **always** a problem, of course.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1406751)

- Ces registres doivent **toujours** être traçables.
  These records must **always** be traceable.
  ([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 3085594)

## still

Used about 23 219 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 825 · literary ≈ 57 · parliamentary ≈ 5 250 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 489 · UN documents ≈ 15 599). Meaning: [still in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/still/).

- Es-tu **toujours** mariée ?
  Are you **still** married?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1886317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1886317) [\#2061812](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2061812))

- --Est-ce qu'elle est **toujours** là?
  “Is she **still** there?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9954)

- Mais de nombreux élevages industriels ne sont **toujours** pas aux normes.
  However, many factory farms are **still** not up to standard.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1465600)

- Maître-cylindre défectueux, mais freinage **toujours** opérant.
  Master cylinder defective but brake **still** operating.
  ([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 3209160)

- M. Mejri est **toujours** détenu à la prison de Mahdia.
  Mr. Mejri is **still** being held in Mahdia prison.
  ([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 29294593)

## More sentences

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

- C'est l'histoire de ma vie : **toujours** un jour en retard et pas assez de ronds.
  That's the story of my life: a day late and a dollar short.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and halfb1t · checked, community translation · [\#2119623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2119623) [\#2120922](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2120922))

- Nous ne pouvons pas garder ce secret pour **toujours**.
  We can't keep this secret forever.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6823800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6823800) [\#8185540](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8185540))

- Elle prend **toujours** le bus lorsqu'il pleut.
  When it rains, she takes the bus.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CH · checked, community translation · [\#26860](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/26860) [\#3236142](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3236142))

## Grammar

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