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# cost — English to French

How English *cost* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: cost (176 575), costs (212 908). By style: everyday 595 · literary 19 · biblical 7 · parliamentary 18 129 · legal and administrative 72 830 · UN documents 297 903.

## coût

Used about 203 121 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · parliamentary ≈ 11 897 · legal and administrative ≈ 54 623 · UN documents ≈ 136 539). Forms: coût, coûts.

- Don't worry about the **cost**.
  Ne te soucie pas du **coût** !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2285827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2285827) [\#2286592](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2286592))

- The **cost** of failure would be high.
  Le **coût** d’un échec serait élevé.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 702273)

- Value added at factor **cost**
  Valeur ajoutée au **coût** des facteurs
  ([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 1818410)

- **Costs** (OPEX)b/ (Euro per m3)
  **Coûts** (OPEX)b (en euros/m3)
  ([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 17266530)

- The **cost** of living has risen.
  Le **coût** de la vie a augmenté.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#442110](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/442110) [\#895851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/895851))

## dépenses

Used about 66 303 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 378 · legal and administrative ≈ 759 · UN documents ≈ 65 166).

- Last but not least, I would like to say that our expenditure is, of course, very much linked to the fact that we have several seats, and that **costs** money.
  Pour terminer, je voudrais dire que nos **dépenses** sont fortement liées au fait que nous avons plusieurs sièges, ce qui coûte cher.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1506426)

- expenditure related to the practical aspects of organising such courses and the use of premises and transport and the **cost** of food and accommodation for the participants of residential courses,
  les **dépenses** liées à l’organisation pratique des cours, aux locaux, au transport, aux repas et à l’hébergement des participants pour les cours résidentiels,
  ([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 5048716)

- Other running **costs** b/
  Charges socialesa Autres **dépenses** courantesb
  ([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 1415599)

- If Parliament is serious about enlargement eastwards, efforts must be made to cut back considerably on the **costs** of agriculture.
  Si le Parlement prend au sérieux la question de l'élargissement vers l'est, il doit uvrer pour obtenir des réductions importantes des **dépenses** destinées à l'agriculture.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 32879)

- C. Requirements for non-recurrent **costs**
  C. **Dépenses** prévues non renouvelables
  ([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 5605623)

## frais

Used about 29 943 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 511 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 897 · UN documents ≈ 15 516).

- As for **costs**, we'll talk about those later.
  En ce qui concerne les **frais**, nous en parlerons plus tard.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#10483461](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10483461) [\#10461778](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10461778))

- Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the benefit of the galleys, the **cost** of collecting taxes had doubled in the arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827.
  Moins de quatre ans après l'arrêt de la cour d'assises constatant au profit du bagne l'identité de Mr Madeleine et de Jean Valjean, les **frais** de perception de l'impôt étaient doublés dans l'arrondissement de Montreuil-sur-Mer, et Mr de Villèle en faisait l'observation à la tribune au mois de février 1827.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7813)

- It is imperative that rules for travel **costs** should be transparent and comprehensible.
  Un système transparent et compréhensible est indispensable pour réglementer les **frais** de voyage.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 461460)

- Off-line personnel **costs**
  **Frais** de personnel hors chaîne
  ([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 860208)

- She estimates the litigation **costs** at $250,000 per suit and submits that no victim can afford this.
  Elle estime que les **frais** de justice s &apos; élèvent à 250 000 livres par action et qu &apos; aucune victime ne peut payer une telle somme.
  ([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 85678)

## prix

Used about 9 541 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 189 · UN documents ≈ 9 309).

- I want to see him at all **costs**.
  Je veux à tout **prix** le voir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#271249](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/271249) [\#128804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/128804))

- "And these twelve at a **cost** of 85 leagues diagonally?"
  —-Et cela au **prix** de quatre-vingt-cinq lieues de diagonale?
  ([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 2158)

- Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will **cost** his life.
  Jusqu’à ce qu’une flèche lui perce le foie, Comme l’oiseau qui se précipite dans le filet, Sans savoir que c’est au **prix** de sa vie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 7:23)

- If I bought an unwrapped piece of ham, I could see the selling price and the **cost** per kilo.
  Si j'achetais un morceau de jambon emballé, je pouvais lire le **prix** final et le prix au kilo.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1595522)

- (b) **Cost** factors to account for minor equipment linked to major equipment under the wet and dry lease system;
  b) Les éléments du **prix** de revient du matériel léger associé au matériel lourd dans le système de la location avec et sans services;
  ([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 1744652)

## dollars

Used about 3 165 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · UN documents ≈ 3 103).

- It **costs** a grand.
  Ça coûte mille **dollars**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#14032791](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14032791) [\#14032794](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14032794))

- The balance of **cost**-sharing funds held at 31 December 2002 was $24.1 million (in 2001 it was $12.9 million).
  Au 31 décembre 2002, le solde des contributions de cofinancement s &apos; élevait à 24,1 millions de **dollars** (contre 12,9 millions de dollars au 31 décembre 2001).
  ([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 10558218)

- That disc **cost** ten dollars.
  Ce disque a couté 10 **dollars**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2148916](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2148916) [\#10976050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10976050))

- It has **cost** me $100 altogether.
  Ça m'a coûté 100 **dollars** en tout.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#42260](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/42260) [\#11750027](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11750027))

- It'll **cost** around thirty dollars.
  Ça coûtera environ trente **dollars**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5497090](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5497090) [\#5814303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5814303))

## More sentences

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

- How much does that lamp **cost**?
  Combien coûte cette lampe ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#5956063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5956063) [\#10288356](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10288356))

- It'll **cost** around ten thousand yen.
  Cela coûtera à peu près 10 000 yens.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nicokdo · checked, community translation · [\#5498828](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5498828) [\#2110449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2110449))

- It **cost** me ten thousand yen to have my television set repaired.
  Ça m'a coûté dix-mille yens pour faire réparer mon poste de télévision.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#39152](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/39152) [\#1186255](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1186255))

## 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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