comprennent — French to English

How French comprennent is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: comprennent (34 905). By style: everyday 72 · literary 3 · biblical 10 · parliamentary 1 362 · legal and administrative 6 459 · UN documents 26 999.

include

Used about 20 797 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 199 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 844 · UN documents ≈ 15 749). Meaning: include in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Les gemmes rares comprennent l'aigue-marine, l'améthyste, l'émeraude, le quartz et le rubis.

  Rare gems include aquamarine, amethyst, emerald, quartz and ruby.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #529376 #12380355

• Elles comprennent un soutien spécifique aux petites pêcheries.

  These include specific support for small-scale fisheries.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1348503

• Ces informations comprennent notamment:

  This information shall include in particular:

  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 4430843

• Ses activités spécifiques comprennent :

  Specific activities of the laboratory include the following:

  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 2573142

• Les pierres précieuses rares comprennent l'aigue-marine, l'améthyste, l'émeraude, le quartz et le rubis.

  Rare gems include aquamarine, amethyst, emerald, quartz and ruby.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #529376 #12380357

understand

Used about 2 774 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 454 · UN documents ≈ 2 250). Meaning: understand in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ils ne comprennent pas.

  They don't understand.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jeo and CK · checked, community translation · #2243104 #1122239

• --Les cygnes comprennent les signes, dit le bourgeois, heureux d'avoir de l'esprit.

  “The swans [cygnes] understand signs [signes],” said the bourgeois, delighted to make a jest.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26552

• Les hommes livrés au mal ne comprennent pas ce qui est juste, Mais ceux qui cherchent l’Éternel comprennent tout.

  Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 28:5

• C'est indigne et les gens n'y comprennent rien.

  It is a disgrace and people are at a loss to understand it.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1859957

• 54. Les Jamaïcains de toute condition parlent et comprennent l ' anglais.

  Jamaicans at all levels speak and understand English.

  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 10502712

More sentences

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

• Les travailleurs de ces usines comprennent un grand pourcentage d'immigrés.

  Workers in these factories comprise a large percentage of immigrants.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · #3689955 #8648239

• De nombreuses personnes ne le comprennent jamais et terminent avec un emploi au gouvernement. Comment ils font ça restera toujours un mystère.

  Many people never get it right and end up landing jobs in government. How they do it will forever remain a mystery.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and saeb · checked, community translation · #503566 #548622

• Ils ne comprennent pas.

  They just don't get it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jeo and CK · checked, community translation · #2278295 #1122239

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