Grammatical class
Postposition
durant
on end
Details
Syllables
du-rant
Phonetics
dy.ʁɑ̃
Grammatical class
Postposition
Freq. (books)
6661
Freq. (movies)
8726
Freq. (news)
576
Variants
Sentences
Des heures durant
For hours on end
Il plut des heures durant.
It rained for hours and hours.
Il a étudié durant dix ans.
He studied for ten years.
Il aime nager durant l'été.
He likes swimming in summer.
Il a parlé une heure durant.
He talked for an entire hour.
Je suis né durant l'ère Showa.
I'm a person who was born during the Showa era.
Un feu démarra durant la nuit.
A fire broke out during the night.
Il plut durant la nuit.
It rained during the night.
Yanni est mort durant un coma.
Yanni died in a coma.
Il fixa sa main durant un moment.
He stared at her hand for a moment.
Les ours hibernent durant l'hiver.
Bears hibernate during the winter.
Gabriel a vécu durant des siècles.
Gabriel has lived for centuries.