understood — English to French

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

What it means: understood in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: understood (25 140). By style: everyday 214 · literary 39 · biblical 22 · parliamentary 2 397 · legal and administrative 2 639 · UN documents 19 829.

comprendre

Used about 4 074 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 300 · UN documents ≈ 3 718).

• It cannot be understood.

  On ne peut pas le comprendre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and menaud · checked, community translation · #12496987 #13485858

• The simple and charitable Oudarde, who fancied that she understood from her last words that she was complaining of the cold, replied innocently, “Then you would like a little fire?”

  La simple et charitable Oudarde qui crut comprendre à ses dernières paroles qu'elle se plaignait encore du froid, lui répondit naïvement: «Alors, voulez-vous un peu de feu?

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3380

• They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

  Ils lisaient distinctement dans le livre de la loi de Dieu, et ils en donnaient le sens pour faire comprendre ce qu’ils avaient lu.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 8:8

• As I have understood it, there has been a certain lack of clarity in some respects as to how this is to be understood.

  Comme j'ai pu le comprendre, il y a eu une certaine confusion quant à son interprétation.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 5654

• This was seen as a concern in terms of making the Declaration more effective and better understood.

  Pour certains, cette complexité empêchait de rendre la Déclaration plus efficace et de la faire mieux comprendre.

  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 29250252

comprenait

Used about 451 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 15 · biblical ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 413).

• He said that he understood.

  Il a dit qu'il comprenait.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · #7402863 #11726111

• He understood this pantomime.

  Il comprenait cette pantomime.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6227

• They didn’t know that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

  Ils ne savaient pas que Joseph comprenait, car il se servait avec eux d’un interprète.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 42:23

• It understood that Zambia had taken measures to improve conditions in detention facilities in accordance with accepted recommendations.

  Le Japon comprenait que la Zambie avait pris des mesures pour améliorer les conditions de détention conformément aux recommandations acceptées.

  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 25761210

• Only my mother understood me.

  Seule ma mère me comprenait.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Auride and Nyans · checked, community translation · #10634343 #10634345

More sentences

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

• Even having understood, it is a difficult theory to explain.

  Même une fois comprise, c'est une théorie difficile à expliquer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LB and GB3 · checked, community translation · #4445236 #6816150

• I understood that the rumor was true.

  J'ai compris que la rumeur était fondée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by xhlulu and qdii · checked, community translation · #10712190 #584755

• I thought I understood you.

  Je pensais que je t'avais compris.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and maydoo · checked, community translation · #1961284 #3678358

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