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# costs — English to French

How English *costs* 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: costs (212 908). By style: everyday 150 · literary 3 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 10 294 · legal and administrative 48 229 · UN documents 154 230.

## coûts

Used about 108 093 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 6 434 · legal and administrative ≈ 34 162 · UN documents ≈ 67 476). Forms: coût, coûts.

- Living **costs** are getting higher.
  Le **coût** de la vie augmente.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#271771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/271771) [\#1054840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1054840))

- I should like to comment on the **costs**, which are always set out.
  Permettez-moi de revenir sur la question des **coûts**, qui revient invariablement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 890473)

- capital **costs** of plants and equipment;
  les **coûts** en capital des installations et des équipements,
  ([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 4951500)

- **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 benefits outweigh the **costs**.
  Les bénéfices l'emportent sur les **coûts**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1855105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1855105) [\#11778366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11778366))

## dépenses

Used about 55 052 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 429 · UN documents ≈ 54 623).

- 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)

- 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)

- 4. Staff **costs** and other personnel **costs**
  4. Traitements et autres **dépenses** de personnel
  ([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 15987704)

## frais

Used about 27 425 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 1 501 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 062 · UN documents ≈ 12 853).

- 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))

- 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)

- We opted for a bare bones version of the software to keep **costs** low.
  Nous avons opté pour une version simplifiée du logiciel pour limiter les **frais**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13901330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13901330) [\#13901332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13901332))

## More sentences

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

- Gasoline **costs** more in France than in the United States.
  L'essence coûte plus en France qu'aux États-Unis.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#3259810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259810) [\#3259809](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259809))

- If you think education is expensive, wait till you see what ignorance **costs** you.
  Si vous pensez que l'éducation coûte cher, attendez de voir ce que l'ignorance vous coûte.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and eS · checked, community translation · [\#2354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2354) [\#4229](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4229))

- It **costs** twenty euros.
  Ça coûte vingt euros.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#2860384](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2860384) [\#8760607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8760607))

## Grammar

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