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# account — English to French

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

What it means: [account in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/account/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: account (321 637), accounts (72 132). By style: everyday 219 · literary 28 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 19 910 · legal and administrative 81 229 · UN documents 292 364.

## compte

Used about 243 874 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 192 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 10 162 · legal and administrative ≈ 65 999 · UN documents ≈ 167 500). Forms: compte, comptes.

- Put it on my **account**.
  Mets-le sur mon **compte** !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2267673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2267673) [\#1329204](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1329204))

- What **account** have we to demand of him?
  Quel **compte** avons-nous à lui demander?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30740)

- They will give **account** to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
  Ils rendront **compte** à celui qui est prêt à juger les vivants et les morts.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 4:5)

- There is the problem of trust **accounts**.
  Il y a le problème des **comptes** de mandataire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 986168)

- Other **accounts** payable (F.8)
  Autres **comptes** à payer (F.8)
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2864946)

## considération

Used about 12 794 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 3 318 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 385 · UN documents ≈ 6 091).

- This will have to be taken into **account**.
  Ces questions devront être prises en **considération**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 385241)

- These comments have been taken into **account** and are reflected in the above.
  Ces commentaires ont été pris en **considération** dans le tableau figurant ci-dessus.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 1027567)

- Stressing the need to take into **account** all experience gained in the implementation of the Convention,
  Soulignant la nécessité de prendre en **considération** toute expérience acquise dans l &apos; application de la Convention,
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 8073121)

- This all needs to be taken into **account** in weighing up the situation.
  Il faut prendre tout cela en **considération** dans nos réflexions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 357211)

- That corrective amount must be calculated taking **account** of the factors referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1501/95.
  Ce correctif doit être calculé en prenant en **considération** les éléments figurant à l'article 1er du règlement (CE) no 1501/95.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 967019)

## tenir

Used about 847 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · legal and administrative ≈ 846).

- "Yes, it is difficult," he said, "to calculate exactly; perhaps even impossible, since during these three stormy days I have been unable to keep any **account** of the rate or direction of the raft; but still we may get an approximation."
  —A calculer exactement, oui, répondit-il; c'est même impossible, puisque, pendant ces trois jours de tempête, je n'ai pu **tenir** note de la vitesse et de la direction du radeau; mais cependant nous pouvons relever notre situation à l'estime.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3263)

- keeping the **accounts** for ATHENA;
  de **tenir** la comptabilité d’ATHENA;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 1420270)

## More sentences

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

- How do you **account** for the fact?
  Comment expliquez-vous ce fait ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and dominiko · checked, community translation · [\#16586](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16586) [\#8979](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8979))

- Send me the **account**.
  Envoyez-moi la facture.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kremel and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#20905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20905) [\#2047937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2047937))

- He turns everything to good **account**.
  Il fait feu de tout bois.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#288089](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/288089) [\#1347569](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1347569))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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