comme — French to English

How French comme is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: comme (1 156 952), commes (8). By style: everyday 4 747 · literary 822 · biblical 2 317 · parliamentary 116 728 · legal and administrative 152 774 · UN documents 879 572.

as

Used about 593 563 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 681 · literary ≈ 411 · biblical ≈ 1 110 · parliamentary ≈ 89 978 · legal and administrative ≈ 68 592 · UN documents ≈ 431 790). Meaning: as in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tu as raison, comme toujours.

  You're right, as always.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by calypsow and CK · checked, community translation · #2545647 #12118437

• Comme dit ce bon Plautus,

  As that good Plautus saith,—

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4339

• Si donc tu me tiens pour ton ami, reçois-le comme moi-même.

  If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHM 1:17

• Or, chers collègues, vous avez perdu, comme j’ai moi-même perdu à plusieurs reprises.

  But, dear colleagues, you lost, as I have done several times.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 765949

• Acrylate d'éthyle, en cas d'utilisation comme ingrédient de parfum

  Ethyl acrylate, when used as a fragrance ingredient

  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 1954149

follows

Used about 241 389 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 65 475 · UN documents ≈ 175 914).

• l'annexe II est modifiée comme suit:

  Annex II is amended as follows:

  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 4672103

• Les voix se sont réparties comme suit :

  The voting was as follows:

  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 14701180

• l'article 67 est modifié comme suit:

  Article 67 is amended as follows:

  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 4573045

• Insérer un nouveau paragraphe 4 libellé comme suit :

  Insert a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:

  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 10060162

• L’article 4 est modifié comme suit:

  Article 4 is amended as follows:

  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 471574

like

Used about 36 447 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 879 · literary ≈ 240 · biblical ≈ 628 · parliamentary ≈ 14 591 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 118 · UN documents ≈ 15 992). Meaning: like in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Où allez-vous comme ça ?

  Where do you go like this?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pkill and Orange · checked, community translation · #12416363 #10505661

• C'était comme un grelot qu'on agitait.

  It was like the tinkling of a bell.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10002

• Jésus leur dit: Je voyais Satan tomber du ciel comme un éclair.

  He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 10:18

• C’est également à lui et à des personnes comme lui que je voudrais dédier ce jour.

  It is also to him and people like him that we should dedicate this day.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 596196

• Elles sont donc considérées comme des produits similaires au sens de l'article 1er, paragraphe 4, du règlement de base.

  Therefore, they were considered to be like products within the meaning of Article 1(4) of the basic Regulation.

  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 452123

More sentences

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

• Comme cette fleur est belle !

  How beautiful this flower is!

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by KotobaNiko and CM · checked, community translation · #60061 #11308

• Tu as suffisamment de soucis comme ça.

  You've got enough to worry about.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2540720 #11664585

• Fais comme si tu ne me connaissais pas.

  Just pretend you don't know me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by RJH and ferra · checked, community translation · #4443481 #8049369

Grammar

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