understand — English to French

How English understand is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: understand in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: understand (36 682), understands (4 981). By style: everyday 2 130 · literary 47 · biblical 99 · parliamentary 12 253 · legal and administrative 1 434 · UN documents 25 700.

comprendre

Used about 24 330 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 797 · literary ≈ 27 · biblical ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 8 041 · legal and administrative ≈ 792 · UN documents ≈ 13 653). Forms: comprend, comprendre, comprends.

• I think I understand.

  Je pense que je comprends.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and romainbrenguier · checked, community translation · #320004 #2186917

• I don’t understand.

  Je ne comprends pas.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30959

• “Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

  Instruisez-moi, et je me tairai; Faites-moi comprendre en quoi j’ai péché.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 6:24

• Nobody would understand it.

  Personne ne pourrait comprendre leur position.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 265338

• How to understand and to use this document

  Comment comprendre et utiliser le présent document

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 3490075

langue

Used about 876 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 128 · legal and administrative ≈ 209 · UN documents ≈ 535).

• Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

  Allons! Descendons, et là confondons leur langage, afin qu’ils n’entendent plus la langue, les uns des autres.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 11:7

• I would like you to listen to my speech, or prove that you understand my language.

  Je voudrais que vous écoutiez ce que je dis ou que vous prouviez que vous comprenez ma langue.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 530175

• a language which he understands; or

  une langue qu’elle comprend; ou

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 2736247

• At federal level, for instance, the working language is Amharic and courts are obliged to provide interpreters for those who do not understand Amharic.

  Au niveau fédéral, par exemple, la langue de travail est l ' amharique et les tribunaux sont tenus de fournir des interprètes pour ceux qui ne le comprennent pas.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 20554362

• So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to understand, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air.

  De même vous, si par la langue vous ne donnez pas une parole distincte, comment saura-t-on ce que vous dites? Car vous parlerez en l’air.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:9

More sentences

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

• Do you understand what's going on?

  Comprenez-vous ce qui est en train de se produire ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2333261 #4995191

• I didn't understand it.

  Je n'ai pas compris.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5175120 #4580437

• Do you understand the risks?

  Comprenez-vous les risques ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #2776371 #7045135

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