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# cent — English to French

How English *cent* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: cent (357 131), cents (1 062). By style: everyday 62 · literary 1 · parliamentary 1 069 · legal and administrative 5 982 · UN documents 351 079.

## cents

Used about 150 094 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 779 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 991 · UN documents ≈ 146 283). Forms: cent, centimes, cents.

- Do you have 5 **cents**?
  Vous avez cinq **centimes** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by moxy and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#8860268](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8860268) [\#13010952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13010952))

- Dante in folio nous servait de table Pour manger gaîment un **cent** de marrons.
  Dante in-folio nous servait de table Pour manger gaîment un **cent** de marrons.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24079)

- Two years ago I received 8 **cents**.
  Il y a deux ans j'ai reçu huit **cents**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1064438)

- Butadiene US **cents** per lb
  Butadiène **cents** d'USD/livre
  ([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 4688376)

- 757 litres per hour at 34 **cents** per litre.
  757 litres l’heure, à 34 **cents** le litre.
  ([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 5610298)

## prix

Used about 3 782 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 125 · UN documents ≈ 3 657).

- In Germany the price they need to pay for each kWh is currently around EUR 20 **cents**/kWh, while the LCOE of a rooftop solar installation is around EUR 10 **cents**/kWh.
  En Allemagne, le **prix** d'achat au kWh est actuellement d'environ 20 eurocents/kWh, tandis que le LCOE d'une installation solaire en toiture est d'environ 10 eurocents/kWh.
  ([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 4270269)

- Photocopies can be made at a coin-operated photocopying machine located on MOE level at both sides of the cyber corners, at a cost of 5 **cents** per page.
  Des photocopies pourront être faites sur des machines payantes qui se trouvent au niveau MOE, de chaque côté des espaces Internet, au **prix** de 5 centimes la page.
  ([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 26423563)

- According to them, a couple of pilot auctions have already taken place and they were quite successful in pushing an average price down to EUR 7,25 **cents**/kWh in August 2016.
  Selon elles, quelques enchères pilotes ont été organisées et ont remporté un succès incontestable en faisant baisser le **prix** moyen à 7,25 eurocents/kWh en août 2016.
  ([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 4270849)

## More sentences

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

- I'm telling you, his old car won't fetch a red **cent**.
  J'te l'dis, sa vieille guimbarde ne vaut pas un rond.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shiawase and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#917772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/917772) [\#921021](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/921021))

- He robbed me of every **cent** I had.
  Il m'a volé chaque centime que j'avais.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#297257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/297257) [\#132174](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132174))

- I'm telling you, his old car won't fetch a red **cent**.
  J'te l'dis, sa vieille guimbarde ne vaut pas tripette.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Shiawase and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#917772](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/917772) [\#921019](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/921019))

## 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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