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# coût — French to English

How French *coût* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: coût (105 864), coûte (2 469), coûtes (1), coûts (138 071). By style: everyday 419 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 13 472 · legal and administrative 57 270 · UN documents 175 240.

## cost

Used about 194 325 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 307 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 11 227 · legal and administrative ≈ 51 055 · UN documents ≈ 131 732). Forms: cost, costs. Meaning: [cost in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/cost/).

- Quel est le **coût** ?
  What's the **cost**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3424130](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3424130) [\#5369705](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5369705))

- Chaque hoquet de nos cloaques nous **coûte** mille francs.
  Every hiccough of our sewers **costs** us a thousand francs.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27274)

- Mais le roi David dit à Ornan: Non! Je veux l’acheter contre sa valeur en argent, car je ne présenterai point à l’Éternel ce qui est à toi, et je n’offrirai point un holocauste qui ne me **coûte** rien.
  King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the LORD, nor offer a burnt offering that **costs** me nothing.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 21:24)

- Leur **coût**, c'est pour la vie.
  The **cost** is for life.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1412279)

- **Coût** total (en EUR)
  Total **cost** in EUR
  ([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 779585)

## per

Used about 4 834 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 4 834). Meaning: [per in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/per/).

- Le **coût** standard appliqué pour chaque rapport en 1998 et 1999 était de 950 dollars.
  The standard rate used **per** report is $950.
  ([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 8689163)

- 48. Sur l’ensemble des signaux d’alarme émis par les balises, 90 % sont de fausses alertes, ce qui **coûte** très cher.
  48. Of all alarm signals registered for all beacons, 90 **per** cent are false ones, which is very costly.
  ([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 5869172)

- La présence de plus de 100 000 experts étrangers en Afrique, qui **coûte** autour de 4 milliards de dollars par an, fait perdre une partie de l &apos; aide accordée.
  More than 100,000 foreign experts in Africa costing about $4 billion **per** annum represent the leakage of aid resources.
  ([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 6877392)

- Le trajet en taxi depuis le centre-ville jusqu &apos; au Centre de convention et d &apos; exposition **coûte** environ 250 pesos mexicains (20 dollars É.-U.).
  Taxi fees from Cancun city centre to Cancun Center Conventions &amp; Exhibitions are approximately 250 Mexican pesos (USD 20) **per** ride.
  ([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 29986577)

## high

Used about 1 399 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 187 · UN documents ≈ 1 209). Meaning: [high in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/high/).

- Les courtiers s'en sont mis plein les poches grâce au **coût** du yen élevé.
  Brokers made a killing because of the **high** yen.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#34064](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/34064) [\#8442956](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8442956))

- Ce débat a toujours été négligé dans cette Assemblée, négligence qui nous **coûte** cher aujourd’hui.
  This debate has always been neglected in this House, and we are paying a **high** price for this neglect today.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 590459)

- Elle est souvent de faible valeur et **coûte** cher.
  It is often of low value and the fees are **high**.
  ([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 12100554)

- Cette situation contrariante est le fait des banques, qui imposent des **coûts** élevés sur les paiements de petits montants vers l'étranger.
  The same irritation is felt when it comes to the **high** bank charges for small non-domestic payments.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 112983)

## million

Used about 1 212 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · UN documents ≈ 1 209). Meaning: [million in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/million/).

- Le **coût** total du projet s'élève à cent millions de yens.
  The total expense for the project amounts to one hundred **million** yen.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and orcrist · checked, community translation · [\#47256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/47256) [\#486511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/486511))

- **Coût** total du projet : 7,2 millions de dollars
  Total project financing US$ 7.2 **million**
  ([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 21500286)

## production

Used about 444 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 444). Meaning: [production in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/production/).

- L'augmentation de la capacité de production de DOE **coûte** plus cher et prend plus de temps que l'augmentation de la capacité de purification d'OE.
  Increases in EODs **production** capacity are more costly and take more time than increases in EO purification capacity.
  ([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 1117172)

## More sentences

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

- Ça ne vaut pas le **coût** d'attendre.
  It isn't worth waiting for.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sorasama and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7197187](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7197187) [\#10812429](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10812429))

- Cette entreprise emploie de la main d'œuvre à bas **coût** afin d'accroître ses marges bénéficiaires.
  This company uses cheap labor to increase its profit margins.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1687533](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1687533) [\#1688146](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1688146))

- La hausse incessante du **coût** de la vie pourrait être la cause de malaises sociaux.
  Social unrest may come about as a result of the endless rising of prices.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Akenaseryan and Zifre · checked, community translation · [\#20824](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20824) [\#15002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15002))

## Grammar

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