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# accounts — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: accounts (72 132). By style: everyday 17 · literary 4 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 2 546 · legal and administrative 17 275 · UN documents 52 288.

## comptes

Used about 41 628 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 432 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 036 · UN documents ≈ 26 144).

- Sami's **accounts** are frozen.
  Les **comptes** de Sami sont bloqués.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by OsoHombre and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#6384343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6384343) [\#6384481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6384481))

- “Do you know that you made a great figure on Christmas Day at the head of your company of the chamber of **accounts**, Monsieur President?”
  --Savez-vous que vous aviez bien grande mine, le jour de Noël, à la tête de votre compagnie de la chambre des **Comptes**, monsieur le président?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2386)

- 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)

- II. Statement of **accounts** 13
  II. État des **comptes** 15
  ([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 24800386)

## comptabilité

Used about 10 260 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 106 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 440 · UN documents ≈ 8 715).

- My Euro-seat **accounts** stupidity has unduly penalised my farmers.
  La stupidité de la **comptabilité** électorale a injustement pénalisé mes fermiers.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1684134)

- 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)

- 1993 System of National **Accounts**
  Système de **comptabilité** nationale de 1993
  ([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 25557753)

- ACP states involved in armed conflict should allow the World Bank and the IMF full access to their **accounts**.
  Les pays ACP impliqués dans des conflits armés doivent accorder à la Banque mondiale et au FMI un droit de regard total dans leur **comptabilité**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 109452)

- Sweetcorn (if data available in the holding’s **accounts**)
  Maïs doux (si les données figurent dans la **comptabilité** de l’exploitation)
  ([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 1594983)

## représente

Used about 5 977 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 530 · UN documents ≈ 5 447).

- The former **accounts** for 0.05% of the world's energy consumption.
  Le premier **représente** 0,05 % de la consommation mondiale d'énergie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 903176)

- The region currently **accounts** for nearly one quarter of global manufactured exports.
  La région **représente** près d &apos; un quart des exportations mondiales de produits manufacturés.
  ([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 24914645)

- Temporary work **accounts** for more than three million jobs in the Union.
  Le travail intérimaire **représente** plus de trois millions de salariés dans l'Union.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1146559)

- Global food production **accounts** for 70 per cent of all water withdrawn from rivers and aquifers.
  La production alimentaire mondiale **représente** 70 % de l &apos; eau puisée dans les cours d &apos; eau et les aquifères.
  ([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 24733403)

- In some countries, this sector even **accounts** for more than 90% of employees.
  Dans certains pays, ce secteur **représente** même plus de 90 % de l'emploi salarié.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1315552)

## More sentences

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

- Dan gave two different **accounts** of the story.
  Dan a donné deux versions différentes de l'histoire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4008931](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4008931) [\#4008934](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4008934))

- By all **accounts**, Fr. Mulligan was a paragon of virtue.
  Au dire de tous, Fr. Mulligan était un parangon de vertu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#731330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/731330) [\#800831](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/800831))

- What **accounts** for the fact that women outlive men?
  Qu'est-ce qui rend compte du fait que les femmes vivent plus longtemps que les hommes ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#267287](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/267287) [\#1474753](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1474753))

## Grammar

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