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# cent — French to English

How French *cent* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: cent (35 071), cente (4), centes (5), cents (2 705). By style: everyday 516 · literary 112 · biblical 539 · parliamentary 2 619 · legal and administrative 2 334 · UN documents 31 665.

## cents

Used about 9 854 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 386 · legal and administrative ≈ 705 · UN documents ≈ 8 746). Forms: cent, cents.

- J'ai perdu environ 80 **cents**.
  I've lost about 80 **cents**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and lukaszpp · checked, community translation · [\#434156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/434156) [\#1683390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1683390))

- Dante in-folio nous servait de table Pour manger gaîment un **cent** de marrons.
  Dante in folio nous servait de table Pour manger gaîment un **cent** de marrons.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24079)

- Le prix actuel oscille de 12 à 15 **cents**.
  The current price fluctuates by 12 to 15 **cents**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 964152)

- Butadiène **cents** d'USD/livre
  Butadiene US **cents** per lb
  ([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 4688376)

- 757 litres l’heure, à 34 **cents** le litre.
  757 litres per hour at 34 **cents** per litre.
  ([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 5610298)

## per

Used about 8 104 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 165 · legal and administrative ≈ 97 · UN documents ≈ 7 841). Meaning: [per in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/per/).

- J'ai fait un rapide calcul du coût : cela représente 10 **cents** par kilo.
  I have worked out the cost - 10 cents **per** kilo.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 119997)

- 75 p. **cent** du droit calculé conformément au Règlement (CE) 642/2010
  75 % of the duty calculated as **per** EC Reg. 642/2010
  ([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 252733)

- Vingt-deux pour **cent** des membres élus du Parlement sont des femmes.
  6. Twenty-two **per** cent of the elected members of parliament are women.
  ([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 15317751)

- Il y a eu des invitations à augmenter ce chiffre à 70 **cents** par culture.
  There were invitations to do ten times more - 70 cents **per** culture.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 867301)

- La taille de l’échantillon standard est de deux **cents** tubercules par test.
  The standard sample size is 200 tubers **per** test.
  ([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 900501)

## hundred

Used about 7 335 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 231 · literary ≈ 105 · biblical ≈ 528 · parliamentary ≈ 799 · legal and administrative ≈ 243 · UN documents ≈ 5 428). Meaning: [hundred in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hundred/).

- Compte de un à **cent**.
  Count from one to a **hundred**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and sharptoothed · checked, community translation · [\#2780826](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2780826) [\#9547742](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9547742))

- Voilà deux **cents** pistoles.
  Here are two **hundred** pistoles.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22605)

- les fils de Harim, trois **cent** vingt;
  The children of Harim: three **hundred** twenty.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NEH 7:35)

- Plus de trois **cents** maisons vont être détruites.
  More than three **hundred** homes face destruction.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 406044)

- Objets d'antiquité ayant plus de **cent** ans d'âge
  Antiques of an age exceeding one **hundred** years
  ([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 190875)

## thousand

Used about 34 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 28). Meaning: [thousand in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/thousand/).

- Les tortues luth peuvent peser plus de cinq **cents** kilos.
  Leatherback turtles can weigh more than a **thousand** pounds.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3581665](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3581665) [\#3582542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3582542))

- En effet, depuis qu'il avait quitté Londres, tant en frais de voyage qu'en primes, en achat d'éléphant, en cautions et en amendes, Phileas Fogg avait déjà semé plus de cinq mille livres (125 000 F) sur sa route, et le tant pour **cent** de la somme recouvrée, attribué aux détectives, allait diminuant toujours.
  Since leaving London, what with travelling expenses, bribes, the purchase of the elephant, bails, and fines, Mr. Fogg had already spent more than five **thousand** pounds on the way, and the percentage of the sum recovered from the bank robber promised to the detectives, was rapidly diminishing.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1139)

- Il s’agit d’une machine qui comprend quatre mille cinq **cents** éléments, qui parlent vingt langues et produisent un million de mots par semaine.
  It is a machine of four and a half **thousand** parts, speaking twenty languages, a million words a week.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 603754)

## More sentences

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

- Les blondes gagnent sept pour **cent** de plus que les femmes ayant n'importe quelle autre couleur de cheveux.
  Blondes earn 7% more than women with any other hair color.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#825615](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/825615) [\#3521316](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3521316))

- On utilise seulement dix pour **cent** de son cerveau.
  We only use 10% of our brain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alexmarcelo and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1931908](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1931908) [\#2162704](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2162704))

- Je suis né en mille neuf **cent** soixante-douze.
  I was born in 1972.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and bferrant · checked, community translation · [\#689018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/689018) [\#1588538](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1588538))

## Grammar

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