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Forms: comment, comments. Meaning: [comment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/comment/). - **Commente**. **Comment**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and adiante19 · checked, community translation · [\#7910267](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7910267) [\#8304721](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8304721)) - Je voudrais que la rapporteure **commente** ce point. I would like the rapporteur to **comment** on this. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1494724) - La Commission **commente** cette réaction. The Commission shall **comment** on this reaction. ([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 3556795) - (OICA) **Comments** to GRE-70-09 (OICA) **Comments** to GRE-70-09 ([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 28141428) - Le paragraphe 7 **commente** les cyberattaques perpétrées. Paragraph 7 **comments** on the Internet attacks carried out. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 937599) ## how Used about 24 635 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 681 · literary ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 174 · parliamentary ≈ 6 095 · legal and administrative ≈ 736 · UN documents ≈ 13 900). Meaning: [how in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/how/). - **Comment** te sens-tu ? **How** are you feeling? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1839466](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1839466) [\#888820](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/888820)) - --**Comment** le savez-vous? “**How** do you know?” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 834) - David donc l’appelle Seigneur; **comment** est-il son fils? “David therefore calls him Lord, so **how** is he his son?” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:44) - **Comment** en contrôler le respect? **How** do you police it? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1533864) - Si oui, décrivez **comment**. If so, please describe **how**. ([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 1685855) ## know Used about 92 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · literary ≈ 2). Meaning: [know in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/know/). - Je veux savoir **comment** cela s'appelle. I want to **know** what this is called. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2033641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2033641) [\#6631130](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6631130)) - --**Comment** diable! dit Phoebus, vous savez mon nom! “What, the devil!” said Phœbus, “you **know** my name!” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4557) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - **Comment** s'appelle ton père ? What's your dad's name? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2645642](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2645642) [\#2379706](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2379706)) - **Comment** se prénomment-elles ? What are they called? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4496272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4496272) [\#9157181](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9157181)) - **Comment** se nomme le nouveau commissaire de police ? What's the name of the new Chief of Police? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12262407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12262407) [\#9102036](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9102036)) ## 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/). ## 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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