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Meaning: [include in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/include/). - Les gemmes rares **comprennent** l'aigue-marine, l'améthyste, l'émeraude, le quartz et le rubis. Rare gems **include** aquamarine, amethyst, emerald, quartz and ruby. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#529376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/529376) [\#12380355](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12380355)) - Elles **comprennent** un soutien spécifique aux petites pêcheries. These **include** specific support for small-scale fisheries. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1348503) - Ces informations **comprennent** notamment: This information shall **include** in particular: ([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 4430843) - Ses activités spécifiques **comprennent** : Specific activities of the laboratory **include** the following: ([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 2573142) - Les pierres précieuses rares **comprennent** l'aigue-marine, l'améthyste, l'émeraude, le quartz et le rubis. Rare gems **include** aquamarine, amethyst, emerald, quartz and ruby. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#529376](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/529376) [\#12380357](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12380357)) ## understand Used about 2 774 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 454 · UN documents ≈ 2 250). Meaning: [understand in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/understand/). - Ils ne **comprennent** pas. They don't **understand**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2243104](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2243104) [\#1122239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1122239)) - --Les cygnes **comprennent** les signes, dit le bourgeois, heureux d'avoir de l'esprit. “The swans \[cygnes\] **understand** signs \[signes\],” said the bourgeois, delighted to make a jest. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26552) - Les hommes livrés au mal ne **comprennent** pas ce qui est juste, Mais ceux qui cherchent l’Éternel **comprennent** tout. Evil men don’t **understand** justice; but those who seek the LORD understand it fully. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 28:5) - C'est indigne et les gens n'y **comprennent** rien. It is a disgrace and people are at a loss to **understand** it. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1859957) - 54. Les Jamaïcains de toute condition parlent et **comprennent** l ' anglais. Jamaicans at all levels speak and **understand** English. ([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 10502712) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les travailleurs de ces usines **comprennent** un grand pourcentage d'immigrés. Workers in these factories comprise a large percentage of immigrants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and karloelkebekio · checked, community translation · [\#3689955](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3689955) [\#8648239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8648239)) - De nombreuses personnes ne le **comprennent** jamais et terminent avec un emploi au gouvernement. Comment ils font ça restera toujours un mystère. Many people never get it right and end up landing jobs in government. How they do it will forever remain a mystery. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and saeb · checked, community translation · [\#503566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/503566) [\#548622](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/548622)) - Ils ne **comprennent** pas. They just don't get it. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2278295](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2278295) [\#1122239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1122239)) ## 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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