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# comptabilité — French to English

How French *comptabilité* 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: comptabilité (30 497), comptabilités (265). By style: everyday 3 · parliamentary 555 · legal and administrative 3 734 · UN documents 26 470.

## accounts

Used about 26 989 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 433 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 567 · UN documents ≈ 23 988). Forms: accounting, accounts.

- À gauche, c'est l'accueil, à droite, c'est la **comptabilité**.
  On the left is reception, and to the right is **accounting**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rat and tsp\_2 · checked, community translation · [\#9987989](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9987989) [\#9787635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9787635))

- Cela ressemble à la **comptabilité** ingénieuse d’Enron.
  This is akin to Enron's creative **accounting**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 543640)

- des **comptabilités** «matières» et financières;
  stock records and financial **accounts**;
  ([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 1553724)

- sur la **comptabilité** nationale
  Meeting on National **Accounts**
  ([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 2765507)

- Le centre de gestion tient 2 500 **comptabilités** agricoles.
  The administrative centre holds 2 500 agricultural **accounts**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1374672)

## records

Used about 1 069 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 8 · legal and administrative ≈ 233 · UN documents ≈ 827).

- Il utilise beaucoup de mots grandiloquents qui donnent l’impression que l’UE est professionnelle, bien organisée et a une **comptabilité** financière bien tenue.
  It uses lots of high-sounding words that give the impression that the EU is professional, well organised and has properly-maintained financial **records**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 814626)

- Pièces justificatives de la **comptabilité** matières
  Supporting documents for stock **records**
  ([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 652304)

- Rapport du Groupe de Londres sur la **comptabilités** de l &apos; environnement
  1 Official **Records** of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 4 (E/2000/24), para. 1.
  ([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 7246144)

- 7 = envoi non inscrit dans la **comptabilité** “matières”
  7 = Consignment not entered in stock **records**
  ([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 5045425)

- Les écarts entre les deux **comptabilités** tiennent à une classification différente des mêmes données.
  The differences between the two **records** reflect a different classification of the same data.
  ([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 8689995)

## national

Used about 276 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 276). Meaning: [national in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/national/).

- L &apos; on pourrait tout simplement s &apos; inspirer des définitions utilisées dans les **comptabilités** nationales, qui font déjà l &apos; objet d &apos; un consensus international.
  An easy solution would be to base this on the **national** account definitions, which are already internationally approved.
  ([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 13775590)

## More sentences

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

- Pouvez-vous tenir la **comptabilité** ?
  Can you do bookkeeping?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by littlejohn\_75 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#8389](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8389) [\#2804063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2804063))

- Tom a adopté notre méthode de **comptabilité**.
  Tom adopted our method of bookkeeping.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mookeee and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1027214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1027214) [\#1115333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1115333))

- Nous pourrions ainsi élaborer un vrai budget fondé sur des priorités politiques et pas simplement sur la **comptabilité**.
  In that way, we could produce a real budget of political priorities, not just book-keeping.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1872341)

## Grammar

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