comment — French to English

How French comment 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: comment (76 661), commente (291), commentes (2), comments (3 137). By style: everyday 4 579 · literary 102 · biblical 220 · parliamentary 13 867 · legal and administrative 2 454 · UN documents 58 869.

comment

Used about 39 735 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · parliamentary ≈ 4 876 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 246 · UN documents ≈ 33 523). Forms: comment, comments. Meaning: comment in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Commente.

  Comment.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and adiante19 · checked, community translation · #7910267 #8304721

• Je voudrais que la rapporteure commente ce point.

  I would like the rapporteur to comment on this.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1494724

• La Commission commente cette réaction.

  The Commission shall comment on this reaction.

  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 3556795

• (OICA) Comments to GRE-70-09

  (OICA) Comments to GRE-70-09

  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 28141428

• Le paragraphe 7 commente les cyberattaques perpétrées.

  Paragraph 7 comments on the Internet attacks carried out.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 937599

how

Used about 24 635 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 681 · literary ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 174 · parliamentary ≈ 6 095 · legal and administrative ≈ 736 · UN documents ≈ 13 900). Meaning: how in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Comment te sens-tu ?

  How are you feeling?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · #1839466 #888820

• --Comment le savez-vous?

  “How do you know?”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 834

• David donc l’appelle Seigneur; comment est-il son fils?

  “David therefore calls him Lord, so how is he his son?”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:44

• Comment en contrôler le respect?

  How do you police it?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1533864

• Si oui, décrivez comment.

  If so, please describe how.

  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 1685855

know

Used about 92 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · literary ≈ 2). Meaning: know in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je veux savoir comment cela s'appelle.

  I want to know what this is called.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2033641 #6631130

• --Comment diable! dit Phoebus, vous savez mon nom!

  “What, the devil!” said Phœbus, “you know my name!”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4557

More sentences

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

• Comment s'appelle ton père ?

  What's your dad's name?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and CK · checked, community translation · #2645642 #2379706

• Comment se prénomment-elles ?

  What are they called?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · #4496272 #9157181

• Comment se nomme le nouveau commissaire de police ?

  What's the name of the new Chief of Police?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · #12262407 #9102036

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