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Forms: understand, understanding. Meaning: [understand in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/understand/). - Je peux **comprendre** ça. I can **understand** this. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4499878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4499878) [\#6716771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6716771)) - --Vous allez **comprendre**, monsieur le maire. “You shall **understand**, Mr. Mayor.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4602) - Instruisez-moi, et je me tairai; Faites-moi **comprendre** en quoi j’ai péché. “Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to **understand** my error. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 6:24) - Je ne puis vraiment pas le **comprendre**. I really cannot **understand** that. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1789031) - les descriptions et explications nécessaires pour **comprendre** ces dessins et schémas ainsi que le fonctionnement du produit, descriptions and explanations necessary for the **understanding** of those drawings and schemes and the operation of the product; ([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 4966468) ## include Used about 14 347 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 2 918 · UN documents ≈ 11 429). Meaning: [include in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/include/). - Elles doivent au moins **comprendre**: It shall **include** at least: ([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 1238179) - Le système qualité doit **comprendre**: The quality system shall **include**: ([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 12663555) - Ces informations peuvent **comprendre**: Such information may **include**: ([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 1961253) - Elles peuvent également **comprendre** les recettes de concessions accessoires. They may also **include** the revenue of ancillary concessions. ([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 5985917) - Les acides aminés peuvent **comprendre** les suivants : The amino acid residues may **include** the following: ([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 798969) ## how Used about 2 110 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 32 · UN documents ≈ 2 078). Meaning: [how in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/how/). - Je ne parviendrais à **comprendre** comment le faire. I couldn't figure out **how** to do it. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#254201](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/254201) [\#5638612](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5638612)) - Les étudiants doivent également **comprendre** l ' importance du respect de la déontologie dans le monde des affaires et la façon d ' opérer des entreprises internationales. Candidates also need to appreciate the importance of ethics in business and **how** international enterprises operate. ([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 5488006) - Donne-moi juste du temps. Je suis sûre que je peux **comprendre** comment résoudre le problème. Just give me some time. I'm sure I can figure out **how** to solve the problem. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1860690](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1860690) [\#2084052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2084052)) - Quiconque a une connaissance même approximative de la situation politique dans notre région peut **comprendre** combien il a été difficile pour nous d ' adopter une telle position. I must say that anyone who has an elementary knowledge of the political situation in our region can realize **how** difficult it was for us to come to this decision. ([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 994846) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Je n'arrive pas à **comprendre** ce qu'il veut dire. I can't figure out what he means. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#38379](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/38379) [\#10900962](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10900962)) - Je n'ai pu me faire **comprendre** en pays étranger. I couldn't make myself understood in a foreign country. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Gijom and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#21953](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/21953) [\#9475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9475)) - Je n'ai pas pu correctement me faire **comprendre** en anglais. I couldn't make myself understood well in English. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CN · checked, community translation · [\#256188](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/256188) [\#1959625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1959625)) ## 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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