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# reflect — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: reflect (60 224), reflects (27 724). By style: everyday 31 · literary 9 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 4 833 · legal and administrative 7 140 · UN documents 75 934.

## reflète

Used about 31 062 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 3 071 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 239 · UN documents ≈ 23 729). Forms: reflète, reflètent, refléter, réfléchir.

- His face **reflects** joy.
  Son visage **reflète** la joie.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Lulantis · checked, community translation · [\#3455418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3455418) [\#3469040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3469040))

- Then he roused his brain, roused his heart, and tried to **reflect**.
  Alors il secoua sa pensée, il secoua son coeur, et il essaya de **réfléchir**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1798)

- I am asking you to **reflect** on this.
  Voilà à quoi je vous demande de **réfléchir**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1857396)

- These performance indicators shall **reflect**:
  Ces indicateurs de performance **reflètent**:
  ([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 4434112)

- The institutional framework needs to **reflect** this integration from the start.
  Il importe par conséquent que le cadre institutionnel **reflète** cette intégration dès le départ.
  ([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 23563139)

## compte

Used about 13 403 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 151 · legal and administrative ≈ 595 · UN documents ≈ 12 656).

- Phileas Fogg replied that he would **reflect** upon the matter.
  Phileas Fogg répondit qu'il tiendrait **compte** de ces observations et qu'il aviserait.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 969)

- , in writing. - To successfully tackle climate change, markets need to adapt so they **reflect** the environmental cost of carbon.
  par écrit. - (EN) Pour faire face au changement climatique, il faut que les marchés évoluent pour tenir **compte** du coût environnemental du carbone.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1083133)

- Moreover, this method takes into account a discount rate that **reflects** capital costs.
  En outre, cette méthode prend en **compte** un taux d’actualisation reflétant le coût du capital.
  ([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 3508284)

- This output has actually been reformulated to **reflect** a greater focus on the statistical indicators.
  Autre - Ce produit a été reformulé pour mieux tenir **compte** des indicateurs statistiques.
  ([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 27253190)

- This will depend upon concrete results in the reform work and we will of course **reflect** that in our progress report which is currently under preparation.
  Ceci dépendra des résultats concrets du travail de réforme, et nous en tiendrons évidemment **compte** dans notre rapport d'avancement actuellement en cours de préparation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1081575)

## More sentences

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

- Billy's dismissive comments on Gustavo's mistakes **reflect** a narrow-minded perspective on language acquisition.
  Les commentaires méprisants que Billy a faits sur les erreurs de Gustavo montrent l'étroitesse de son esprit en ce qui concerne l'apprentissage des langues.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11768661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11768661) [\#11958679](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958679))

- We must **reflect** on our failure.
  Nous devons nous pencher sur nos échecs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#248832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/248832) [\#7427350](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7427350))

- We must **reflect** on our failure.
  Il faut que nous nous penchions sur nos échecs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#248832](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/248832) [\#7427363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7427363))

## 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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