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# understood — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: understood (25 140). By style: everyday 214 · literary 39 · biblical 22 · parliamentary 2 397 · legal and administrative 2 639 · UN documents 19 829.

## comprendre

Used about 4 074 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 54 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 300 · UN documents ≈ 3 718).

- It cannot be **understood**.
  On ne peut pas le **comprendre**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12496987](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12496987) [\#13485858](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13485858))

- The simple and charitable Oudarde, who fancied that she **understood** from her last words that she was complaining of the cold, replied innocently, “Then you would like a little fire?”
  La simple et charitable Oudarde qui crut **comprendre** à ses dernières paroles qu'elle se plaignait encore du froid, lui répondit naïvement: «Alors, voulez-vous un peu de feu?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3380)

- They read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they **understood** the reading.
  Ils lisaient distinctement dans le livre de la loi de Dieu, et ils en donnaient le sens pour faire **comprendre** ce qu’ils avaient lu.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 8:8)

- As I have **understood** it, there has been a certain lack of clarity in some respects as to how this is to be **understood**.
  Comme j'ai pu le **comprendre**, il y a eu une certaine confusion quant à son interprétation.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 5654)

- This was seen as a concern in terms of making the Declaration more effective and better **understood**.
  Pour certains, cette complexité empêchait de rendre la Déclaration plus efficace et de la faire mieux **comprendre**.
  ([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 29250252)

## comprenait

Used about 451 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 22 · literary ≈ 15 · biblical ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 413).

- He said that he **understood**.
  Il a dit qu'il **comprenait**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7402863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7402863) [\#11726111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11726111))

- He **understood** this pantomime.
  Il **comprenait** cette pantomime.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 6227)

- They didn’t know that Joseph **understood** them; for there was an interpreter between them.
  Ils ne savaient pas que Joseph **comprenait**, car il se servait avec eux d’un interprète.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 42:23)

- It **understood** that Zambia had taken measures to improve conditions in detention facilities in accordance with accepted recommendations.
  Le Japon **comprenait** que la Zambie avait pris des mesures pour améliorer les conditions de détention conformément aux recommandations acceptées.
  ([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 25761210)

- Only my mother **understood** me.
  Seule ma mère me **comprenait**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Auride and Nyans · checked, community translation · [\#10634343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10634343) [\#10634345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10634345))

## More sentences

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

- Even having **understood**, it is a difficult theory to explain.
  Même une fois comprise, c'est une théorie difficile à expliquer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LB and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#4445236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4445236) [\#6816150](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6816150))

- I **understood** that the rumor was true.
  J'ai compris que la rumeur était fondée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by xhlulu and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#10712190](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10712190) [\#584755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/584755))

- I thought I **understood** you.
  Je pensais que je t'avais compris.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and maydoo · checked, community translation · [\#1961284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1961284) [\#3678358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3678358))

## 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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