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# comme — French to English

How French *comme* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: comme (1 156 952), commes (8). By style: everyday 4 747 · literary 822 · biblical 2 317 · parliamentary 116 728 · legal and administrative 152 774 · UN documents 879 572.

## as

Used about 593 563 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 681 · literary ≈ 411 · biblical ≈ 1 110 · parliamentary ≈ 89 978 · legal and administrative ≈ 68 592 · UN documents ≈ 431 790). Meaning: [as in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/as/).

- Tu as raison, **comme** toujours.
  You're right, **as** always.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by calypsow and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2545647](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2545647) [\#12118437](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12118437))

- **Comme** dit ce bon Plautus,
  **As** that good Plautus saith,—
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4339)

- Si donc tu me tiens pour ton ami, reçois-le **comme** moi-même.
  If then you count me a partner, receive him **as** you would receive me.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHM 1:17)

- Or, chers collègues, vous avez perdu, **comme** j’ai moi-même perdu à plusieurs reprises.
  But, dear colleagues, you lost, **as** I have done several times.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 765949)

- Acrylate d'éthyle, en cas d'utilisation **comme** ingrédient de parfum
  Ethyl acrylate, when used **as** a fragrance ingredient
  ([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 1954149)

## follows

Used about 241 389 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 65 475 · UN documents ≈ 175 914).

- l'annexe II est modifiée **comme** suit:
  Annex II is amended as **follows**:
  ([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 4672103)

- Les voix se sont réparties **comme** suit :
  The voting was as **follows**:
  ([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 14701180)

- l'article 67 est modifié **comme** suit:
  Article 67 is amended as **follows**:
  ([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 4573045)

- Insérer un nouveau paragraphe 4 libellé **comme** suit :
  Insert a new paragraph 4 to read as **follows**:
  ([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 10060162)

- L’article 4 est modifié **comme** suit:
  Article 4 is amended as **follows**:
  ([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 471574)

## like

Used about 36 447 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 879 · literary ≈ 240 · biblical ≈ 628 · parliamentary ≈ 14 591 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 118 · UN documents ≈ 15 992). Meaning: [like in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/like/).

- Où allez-vous **comme** ça ?
  Where do you go **like** this?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pkill and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#12416363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12416363) [\#10505661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10505661))

- C'était **comme** un grelot qu'on agitait.
  It was **like** the tinkling of a bell.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10002)

- Jésus leur dit: Je voyais Satan tomber du ciel **comme** un éclair.
  He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen **like** lightning from heaven.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 10:18)

- C’est également à lui et à des personnes **comme** lui que je voudrais dédier ce jour.
  It is also to him and people **like** him that we should dedicate this day.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 596196)

- Elles sont donc considérées **comme** des produits similaires au sens de l'article 1er, paragraphe 4, du règlement de base.
  Therefore, they were considered to be **like** products within the meaning of Article 1(4) of the basic Regulation.
  ([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 452123)

## More sentences

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

- **Comme** cette fleur est belle !
  How beautiful this flower is!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by KotobaNiko and CM · checked, community translation · [\#60061](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/60061) [\#11308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11308))

- Tu as suffisamment de soucis **comme** ça.
  You've got enough to worry about.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2540720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2540720) [\#11664585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11664585))

- Fais **comme** si tu ne me connaissais pas.
  Just pretend you don't know me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by RJH and ferra · checked, community translation · [\#4443481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4443481) [\#8049369](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8049369))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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