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

Sentences

Des heures durant

For hours on end

A1

Il plut des heures durant.

It rained for hours and hours.

A1

Il a étudié durant dix ans.

He studied for ten years.

A1

Il aime nager durant l'été.

He likes swimming in summer.

A1

Il a parlé une heure durant.

He talked for an entire hour.

A1

Je suis né durant l'ère Showa.

I'm a person who was born during the Showa era.

A2

Un feu démarra durant la nuit.

A fire broke out during the night.

A2

Il plut durant la nuit.

It rained during the night.

B1

Yanni est mort durant un coma.

Yanni died in a coma.

B1

Il fixa sa main durant un moment.

He stared at her hand for a moment.

B1

Les ours hibernent durant l'hiver.

Bears hibernate during the winter.

B1

Gabriel a vécu durant des siècles.

Gabriel has lived for centuries.

B2