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Forms: comprend, comprendre, comprends. - I think I **understand**. Je pense que je **comprends**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and romainbrenguier · checked, community translation · [\#320004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/320004) [\#2186917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2186917)) - I don’t **understand**. Je ne **comprends** pas. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30959) - “Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to **understand** my error. Instruisez-moi, et je me tairai; Faites-moi **comprendre** en quoi j’ai péché. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 6:24) - Nobody would **understand** it. Personne ne pourrait **comprendre** leur position. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 265338) - How to **understand** and to use this document Comment **comprendre** et utiliser le présent document ([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 3490075) ## langue Used about 876 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 128 · legal and administrative ≈ 209 · UN documents ≈ 535). - Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not **understand** one another’s speech.” Allons! Descendons, et là confondons leur langage, afin qu’ils n’entendent plus la **langue**, les uns des autres. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 11:7) - I would like you to listen to my speech, or prove that you **understand** my language. Je voudrais que vous écoutiez ce que je dis ou que vous prouviez que vous comprenez ma **langue**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 530175) - a language which he **understands**; or une **langue** qu’elle comprend; ou ([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 2736247) - At federal level, for instance, the working language is Amharic and courts are obliged to provide interpreters for those who do not **understand** Amharic. Au niveau fédéral, par exemple, la **langue** de travail est l ' amharique et les tribunaux sont tenus de fournir des interprètes pour ceux qui ne le comprennent pas. ([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 20554362) - So also you, unless you uttered by the tongue words easy to **understand**, how would it be known what is spoken? For you would be speaking into the air. De même vous, si par la **langue** vous ne donnez pas une parole distincte, comment saura-t-on ce que vous dites? Car vous parlerez en l’air. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:9) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Do you **understand** what's going on? Comprenez-vous ce qui est en train de se produire ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2333261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2333261) [\#4995191](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4995191)) - I didn't **understand** it. Je n'ai pas compris. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#5175120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5175120) [\#4580437](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4580437)) - Do you **understand** the risks? Comprenez-vous les risques ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2776371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2776371) [\#7045135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7045135)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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