Grammatical class
Preposition
durant
during, while
Details
Syllables
du-rant
Phonetics
dy.ʁɑ̃
Grammatical class
Preposition
Freq. (books)
6661
Freq. (movies)
8726
Freq. (news)
576
Variants
Sentences
Il a étudié durant dix ans.
He studied for ten years.
Il aime nager durant l'été.
He likes swimming in summer.
Il aime à nager durant l'été.
He likes swimming in the summer.
On doit étudier sa vie durant.
You must study your whole life.
Un feu démarra durant la nuit.
A fire broke out during the night.
Je suis né durant l'ère Showa.
I'm a person who was born during the Showa era.
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.
Je suis resté là durant quatre semaines.
I stayed there for four weeks.